“Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream”
The Beatles' first wholly psychedelic recording and Revolver's closer – Lennon's adaptation of Timothy Leary's The Psychedelic Experience set over a single-chord C drone, drone-tambura, Ringo's monolithic loop-like drum pattern, and five tape loops created at home by the band and flown in live to the mix.
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The Mellotron first appears on a Beatles record on 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (1966).
Track14 · Album closer · Side closer · Side 2
Songwriter(s)LennonCredited as Lennon–McCartney
RecordedApril 6, 7 & 22, 1966
ReleasedAugust 5, 1966
Song familyIndian song, Twin songsTwin of Eleanor Rigby: death-themed, serious and experimental.
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