Did THE BEATLES Backmask an Entire Song? Discover the Hidden Track on Sgt Pepper!
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- Опубликовано: 22 сен 2023
- In the world of Beatles conspiracy theories, legend tells of a secret 14th song on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band called 'It Was A Fake Moustache'.
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Many thanks, JH.
I think “now folks, it really really was a fake moustache” is my new favorite Beatles lyric
This.
mines got to be "what was neeeyaaaaaz he's got me raw soup" that's an incredible line
@@SpectiZ_ And so INSPIRING! Nothing in "Imagine" comes CLOSE to this line! John and Paul were BEST when writing together!
It's gonna be my new ringtone!
The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley
As Jimmy Page said a few years ago, "It's hard enough writing the music one-way around rather than backwards."
It's not backmasking, something else is going on ( or you would not get phrases that make sense ) you would have things like example ( Pig what never car ) Yet many times we get very specific phrases that are complete and make sense . it's a very odd thing , but 100% real .
Stairway reversed clearly has satanic messages, as do The Beatles
The Law of reversal@@parabot2
@@parabot2 Crowley MAGICK
Aleister Crowley's book, Magick.
a) Let him (The Adept) learn to write backwards, with either hand.
b) Let him learn to walk backwards.
c) Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom him self to these that they appear natural and appreciable as whole.
d) Let him practice speaking backwards: thus for "I am He" let him say, "Eh ma I."
e) Let him learn to read backwards. In this it is difficult to avoid cheating one's self, as an expert reader sees a sentence at a glance. Let his disciple read aloud to him backwards, slowly at first, then more quickly.
f) Of his own ingenium, let him devise other methods.
This is the reason they were doing it. They even have Crowley as one of their heroes in the Pepper cover.
Finally, someone who knows what these "lads' were really up to. Check out the end of Hello Goodbye in reverse
King of Cosmania/Son Of The Magickian
Also, Paul used Ian Iachimoe as a pseudonym, which is Paul McCartney when recorded and played to it backwards.
I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are altogether...
@@MrRobChuck A tenant of ole Aleister
Also, if you record someone saying Paul McCartney and reverse it, it says Ian Iachimoe. Ian Iachamoe is the name signed at the bottom of the lyric sheet for Paperback writer. And also in a few strange ads in the International Times. I agree, I'm sure he could have figured out the fake mustache part.
Someone else might have even told it to him. Tavistock etc ...
@@danfoss1535 It was William Burroughs who showed him how. Or so I've heard.
You missed one obvious thing to do, recording yourself saying "it was a fake moustache" and then playing it backwards so we can hear how they got "Sgt Pepper's lonely" from it. They must have started with the fake moustache line and then figured out what words would sound closest to it backwards. I can imagine Paul saying "it sounds like Sgt Pepper's lonely, dunnit. What can we add after that, Sgt Pepper's lonely what?" And so, music history was made.
He did the same thing with "He's dead'. In reverse it became "Let it be".
Really? I hadn't heard. I'll check it with an audio program, there may be others too.@@user-fu2mi1nd5l
Yeah it sounds vaguely like he's dead, but even clearer , "words of wisdom" is "the superstar". So if one accepts that let it be is he's dead then the whole phrase is "he's dead, the superstar".@@user-fu2mi1nd5l
BTW, I just used an online text to speech and made it say "it was a fake mustache" and it came out sounding like "shared some gifts for Zooie", nothing like it was a fake moustache, though in the actual song it does come out like that.@@user-fu2mi1nd5l
Nice theory. However, it is very well documented how the name "Sgt. Pepper" came to be. During lunch, Mal Evans (their road manager at the time) asked Paul to pass him the "salt and pepper", which Paul misheard as "Sgt. Pepper".
We used to reverse the tapes on our reel-to-reels back in the 70s inspired by the Beatles. It's really amazing how simple normal conversation can become this weird OTHER conversation when reversed. My dad heard us doing that and learned to recite 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' in reverse by reversing himself reciting it normally. Then he recorded that so we could reverse it again. It worked though he had the oddest accent.
Its been said that David Lynch used that technique for the "Other Place" accents in Twin Peaks.
I left a comment above about how almost if not all recordings played backwards would have supposed secret messages. Another You Tuber found messages in The Chipmunks and other pop records he backtracked. The key to it all is to let your imagination run wild and contrive meanings to what is all just gibberish.
Me and my siblings, all " budding musicians" (we all still play- at home!, LOL) did this stuff too back then. A four track reel-to-reel tape deck was a WONDERFUL, almost magical "toy" for sound experiments! Of course, we can do all this stuff and more with software (much easier), But we did have fun. As to what your dad did, I did this too! I'd say something, then reverse it then practice SAYING the reversed words. When I thought I "had it down", I'd record me saying the reversed words and reversing THAT. It's does make an odd accent, Cool as hell for BLAZED 16-year-old in 1978. All analog!! 👍😎👍
@@jamesslick4790 BLAZED AND GLAZED. You coulda been one of the lugs I ran into along the way, for all I know. People you run into once. They showed up to party. Who cares. They're cool. Had good time riffing. Never see them again. The 70s.
Interestingly (for me, anyway), Mary Had A Little Lamb was the first human speech recorded, in 1877, by Thomas Edison.
Fact: The pic sleeve for the Japanese 45 of Paperback Writer and Rain includes the lyrics for the
backward masking part read forwards. It says: "Stare it down and nourish what comes near you"...
WOW!
Here is another clue for you all: The Anthology 3 cover. The pictures of John, George, and Ringo are all from the cover of Let It Be. The picture of Paul for Let It Be is torn away to reveal a picture of Paul from the Rubber Soul album. The original Paul. That is NOT an accident. That was done on purpose. This was a multi-million-dollar product they were releasing. Nothing was left to chance; it was all thought out ahead of time. The Beatles were STILL promoting the “Paul Is Dead” idea in the 1990’s. So you have 2 options: Paul is really dead or Paul is just playing with us. If you want to blame someone for the "Paul Is Dead" theory, blame Paul because he started it.
And the McCartney 3 cover shows that Paul is STILL playing the "Paul is Dead" gimmick. What you are looking at is a DIE. It takes 2 DIE to make Dice. But there are not 2, only one. And the DIE does not show the number 4. THIS cover reads McCartney DIE, with 3 black spots for the other 3 Beatles. It's the most OBVIOUS "Paul is Dead" cover since "Let It Be".
True to their nature as always they showed a bit of humour through that cover but of course to this day folks will still ramble on about conspiracies as you are doing right now and that is part of the fun that they had in playing mind games
@@JeddorianJalapeno So true, conspiracy is the act of 2 or more people conspiring together - usually for no good - and in this case we have 4 people. But it was meant as a harmless joke. Nothing bad should have came out of it. Just jokers joking around.
But if you want to talk conspiracy, how about this: Jim Morrison heard the “Paul Is Dead” story and on the date of Brian Jones death, he faked his own death and split to Africa, with only him and Pam knowing. And of course the guy that saw him get on the plane, though he was not involved in the plan.
Faul>Paul
That always got me about people who actually believe the "Paul is dead" myth. The "fake" Paul looked and sounded exactly like the old one, bit with a scar, and he wrote some of the best music humans have ever produced. How must George feel that some random bloke they picked up to replace Paul was a much better songwriter than him.
You people all realize it’s not a myth right ?
The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley
I'm so happy I'm sub'd to this channel. This is GREAT!
Many thanks, as always.
You’re very welcome 👍👍
This video is SPLENDID! Even if it turns out to be a rubbish theory, it’s SO MUCH FUN to speculate all of it. Well done!
My theory on these things is that it really is gibberish, but when we "know" what it's supposed to be saying (mostly because it kinda sorta sounds like actual words), then our brains fill in the gaps and make it work. I did an experiment with an ex-girlfriend, where I had her listen to the backwards Stairway to Heaven bit. She listened to it several times and couldn't make out a thing. Then I showed her what it was supposed to say, and she could instantly hear it. And once you've got it, you always hear it.
For this one, I did my own listen without looking at the words here. And I came up with something quite different. I think some of mine fit better and some of his fit better. And I definitely can't hear "it was a fake moustache." What was kind of frustrating is that in some places I could have made coherent sentences with minor adjustments Anyway, here's my take on it.
Have a song.
In words.
With every thousand words
With every thousand words
With every thousand words
With every house
Maybe the reputation
Now the song in urban when goals
With every house
Make it snow we never can be worse
Now a song in winter
With every thousand words
With every thousand words
With every thousand words
With every thousand words
With every ass
What was nast
Is here a suit
Never sorry in wings
With every house
Why should we all in we were here
Never sorry went with every possum.
Fascinating, yes, entrainment is definitely a thing.
But it was a fake moustache 😊
You're exactly right about what's happening. It's all gibberish, but your brain is trying to make sense of it. Put on a foreign film in the background while you're doing something and you'll get the same effect. Your brain will try to make sense of it as English.
All gibberish?! In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.....break on through to the other side, man
no it's not dummy@@kennethraymondmoore
What great date you must have been how exciting. Did you play it before or after your TV dinners.
James - I'm *loving* all this Beatles content! They are the best band of all time and it still blows my mind that they made all that incredible innovative music in just a few short years and at such a young age. Obviously I am far too young to have ever seen them play but I saw Oasis 8 times - all bar 1 of those gigs was before they did "Be Here Now" so I wouldn't consider myself a superfan like yourself (I stopped listening to them after B.H.N) but I was fanatical about them in those early years. I share my birthday with Liam and am from South Manchester so in my youth I thought that it was written in the stars 😄 and of course when I found out how much they admired The Beatles - well that was the cherry on the cake. Please continue to do more deep dives into the fan four, I'm enjoying it immensely, thank you 😊✌
All proper Oasis fans stopped after Be Here Now- an utterly, utterly shite album.
Hey guys u need to remember that the song I'm Only Sleeping has the guitar solo played backwards
The Beatles were a creation of the Tavistock institute of mind control
The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley
All my mates were absolute Oasisi fanatics in the 90s. I didn't get really like them in the 90s except for Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger. I got in to them in the 2000s. But my mates who were fanatics in the 90s went off them after BHN.
I normally don't put much stock in reverse speech, but this had me rolling! Thank you for the captions, they made it great. 😂😂
Great stuff, well done with the contextual manipulations! Articles like this are far more interesting than those which don't play the music of their subject! I always thought it wasn't a fake moustache on Paul on the Pepper cover, it looked so natural, and the explanation of it being bespoke accounts for it.
I listened to track 1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for comparison, and indeed, the reverse of John's vocal of the phrase 'We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is 'it was a fake moustache' in all of the choruses. And this seems to be a quirk of John's vocals only - Paul singing the same phrase doesn't quite get there. Cheers!
"Audio Anadrome" is a good name for a band. P.S. Your "Remix" is GENIUS! As a Beatles fan of 50 years, I loved it! 👍👍
John Lennon came home stoned out of his mind ( these are John's words) with the song Rain and played the song and John Lennon did not realize it was on backwards and it blew his mind and the next day he showed the Beatles at Abbey Road studios. At the end of the song Rain the last sentence was played backwards on purpose. So John Lennon discovered it!! And I guess Paul McCartney liked it and they went from there.
The technique you speculate that Paul may have used in finally getting to the right phrase is quite interesting --- he would have had to have listened to the forwardly recorded phrase _"It was a fake Moustache"_ and heard something similar to _"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"_ when playing it backwards. Many years latter a variation on that technique was used by David Lynch in his series TWIN PEAKS when he had some of his actors learn backward phrases insuring that they would enunciate them in a very deliberate and careful manner so that when the _forward_ spoken _backward_ phrase was actually _reversed,_ it would come out sounding something like straight English but with a surreal dreamlike tone to it. It can be a very fun experience to play with this type of thing but it was much easier back in the days of reel to reel tapes when you could easily reverse them on the spot without any specialized software.
Thats fine that you have this opinion , mine is different. i do not find it challenging to download or operate a pc. so i can download a free audio application which is called AUDACITY fairly quickly and painlessly . this does not caus me duress , because it is 2023. it is not very hard to drag and drop an audio file , select it , then click the effects tab and select reverse . back in the day when you had you buy a HUGE back breaking reel to reel ... connect your turn table to it , transfer the album to tape , fast forward to the song , flip BOTH reels carefully to not mar or tear the tape ... is this really less challenging . i am almost 60 years old but i am aware of the fact that any free digital audio workstation software such as reaper or cuebase will let you reverse audio with a single mouse click. its not just the common one AUDACITY that does this. perhaps unlike some, i am conscious of the fact that we live in an exciting time if you are a person who actually does make music. if this is the case then you are fully aware of the fact that the good ole days are now . longing for heavy inefficient tube based tape machines, well to me -this is a cop out. in the time you took to type that i could have downloaded audacity , and performed this edit. at that point the data as non linear . Do you understand the benefit of that ? I can assure you it tromps the tube/tape effect which is also easily obtainable thru plug ins these days. i was well aware of this one btw, for a good while but it did make me laugh out-loud when i heard it . its not so funny when you understand the other side of it . this was one of crowleys commandments . he was very specific about this effect and how to train yourself to be adept in reverse speech . keep em comin pal - you are knocking it out of the park with the beatles stuff .
There was a short video on here that showed you how to play records backwards on a turntable with out having to reverse the motor ,at correct speed ,it worked very well !!
You could also listen through a mirror
@@bobbyboyderecords Or an alternate universe !!
It's easier to do with software than with a tape actually
Bravo! Great job on the song at the end. It was a real pleasant surprise.
Fascinating content James, nicely presented as always!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@JamesHargreavesGuitarme and my friends are on it since teenhood, learned to talk backwards between us for people not understand.... it's half half in music and every day speech, audio-pareidolia sometimes, but also an art in itself. In girum imus nocte... have you listen break on through (to the other side) to the other side ? Thyt s rock n roll , hell it is.... you do great work with your vidéos, thanks
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Now James, perform your magic for us on this one: the end of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
At the 1:09 mark of Reprise Paul begins yelling and we hear what sounds like:
"Paul McCartney's dead!
Really, really dead!
Paul McCartney's really dead!"
This is hilarious but informative at the same time ! This reminds me of those people who talk about synching up The Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard Of Oz/2001 : A Space Odyssey. I heard that if you play all of "Definitely Maybe" backwards it sounds remarkably like "Revolver" ! Cheers Tim
What nails this for me 100%: the very odd cut-out mustache that came with the original Sgt Pepper album in the 60s. I cut it out and actually tried to wear it as a kid. Even then I wondered why it was included. It didn't make sense. Now it does! I've been loving your Beatles videos. This video has earned a new subscriber! AMAZING content! Thank you!
Really love the Sgt Pepper review and this one! For me I think it more likely that they recorded it as a finished work then for fun Paul played it backwards and when he decided it added something to the whole story he put it in. 😎
This is a very fascinating video, although as somebody who is blind and can't see the subtitles, the lyrics, "It was a fake moustache" sounds nothing like the clip backwards, even with the isolated vocal. The last syllable for example clearly sounds like an S sound, not sh or che. Also, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely heartsclub band is 9 syllables, and "It was a fake moustache" is 6. Still though, it is quite interesting hearing it backwards. Maybe if I knew what these backwards lyrics are meant to be, I would understand better. That being said, what you know or think can influence what you hear.
Edit: I have just noticed that "Sergent Pepper's lonely" does have the same number of silables as "It was a fake moustache."
Hi Tobias
Here's what I thought the reverse lyrics could be interpreted as saying (hopefully you have some software that can read this out):
Now for some...
[Most commonly believed to say 'Apple Star']
It was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
Maybe if you refuse, taste it!
Now folks
Now it really really was a fake moustache
Make us? No we'd never tell you
Now folks,
Now it was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
It was a fake moustache
What was me ask he's got me raw soup
Now folks, now it was a fake moustache
Worship George Nyea Mya Hyooee Mwa Hyoo
Now folks, now it was a fake moustache zoo
@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Thank you very much for writing this in, the software has indeed read it all out. It is a very fascinating proposition. I will listen to the song again after having read those lyrics.
Cool, story, Bro. Also love the hidden song. It's now one of my new favorite Beatle' songs.
That's crazy! Thank you for sharing....🤟✌️
Now I've got to play every song on the album backwards...brilliant!!!
Getting Better in reverse is quite a trip
Iamaphoney has already recorded their music backward. Check out his channel Iamaphoneymusic
Great video. Liked and subbed.
I'm soo proud of you James for realizing right away that it was the Beatles themselves who created the Paul Is Dead myth.
Maybe the whole reason they called it Sgt. Pepper’s was so they could have something that sounded like Fake Mustache in reverse.
Great!! Thank You dear friend. ❤
Interesting, fun. Thanks doing this!
Would love to see more Beatles related content on here.
really enjoy your beatle insights james ...... rock on bro
Cheers 👍👍👍
I think it is even easier than that my friend. "It was a fake mustache" is the source. Sing or say "It was a fake mustache" and then spin the tape backwards. Then come up with Lyrics to fit the wanted backward phrase. Now? Sing the invented right way lyics repeat and refine. Once you do it that way you could do the reprise in 4 hours or less.
All of the music is in reverse. Did you know that? Everything. Listen to The Beatles Remix uploaded by The Beatles and it is dead obvious to me (I make records) that the entire song is backward so the forward lyrics are actually backward. Listen. The attack and decay give it away for each instrument. Zero instruments are forward on the final song. It is not hard to do and not that novel, actually ubiquitous in Classical music. Often phrases are inverted or reversed.
Once you write the notes down it is simple to reverse an entire song. Ballsy is what it is, not "new" on the music side. The Lyrics are new because they require a reel to reel and playing around.
Thank you for posting how easy it is. Too bad reel to reel machines are sooo expensive. Otherwise we would all be having fun with their recordings.
Paul: Don’t say anything John but I’m kinda insecure about the fact I can’t grow a moustache so I had to use a fake one.
John: Sure
Also John:
Super fun video - love it💯💜🎈
By your INSANEEE analysis, you should scratch oasis and start researching on the beatles, cause there's like 909 more rooms to explore. Their lore and music mixing is a vast ocean of secrets. I literally spent a whole day reading the whole beatles iceberg from top to bottom. It's insanee I know
it's johnny's birthday - "he never wore his shoes we all know he was dead"
For all we know, The Beatles themselves capitalized on the Paul is dead rumor for a grand conspiracy joke.
Nope,it's much deeper & based on actual events
And it's to do with the occult.....Crowely on pepper cover@@jerald6023
They were irritated by it and were constantly ‘debunking’ it in interviews, they never seemed that amused or enamoured by it so that doesn’t really hold water.
Then why "Paul" on his last album call it McCartney Die??@@vladjones2446
It seems the record companies did little to dispel since it increased sales slightly.
Capitol-iced.
Faul-heads need to get a life.
What if McCartney started off recording "fake mustache", reversed it, discovered St. Peppers, decided to make a fake band concept from it- its mad!
Well I just listened and didn't look at the screen for the suggested lyrics- and...nope virtually nothing. I did then go back and listen and see your lyrics suggestions and had some chuckles!.
Cool! David Lynch uses backwards dialogue in some of his movies. Gives a mysterious feeling.
This is great! I first watched the video and read the "lyrics" - then replayed it and just listened. I couldn't discern any words (other than mustache). It's amazing how we can be manipulated into thinking these things were purposefully planted. It's fun to listen to either way.
Like he said in the video, and that I've argued here in the comments: the original album in the 60s--which I had as a kid in 1968, had a very odd cut-out of a FAKE MOUSTACHE! WHY IN THE WORLD would that have been included? Of course they did it intentionally! BRILLIANT video!
They were the masters of reversal.@@BeatlesCentricUniverse
@@user-fu2mi1nd5l Indeed!
@@BeatlesCentricUniverse "WHY IN THE WORLD would that have been included?" It was a novelty inclusion because they all had a moustache on the album photos DERR
@@sg-yq8pm Wrong. Derr.
i've been saying this for decades. first, you don't have to believe paul is really dead to find the "paul-is-dead" myth fascinating and fun. this myth only adds to the beatles' overall mystique. today's beatle fan, like everyone else it seems, is ridiculously fanatical.
second, at least 4 "clues" had to have been purposely placed. 1) the jibberish at the end of "i'm so tired" that backwards says "paul is dead man, miss him, miss him." that was purposely put there. there's no other way to explain it. 2) the end of "strawberry fields forever" that says "i buried paul." we all lnow now lennon says "cranberry sause" but also they left phrase muddled and hard to hear. i'm sure SOMEONE among the beatles noticed what it sounded like but they purposely left it so it could be misinterpreted. 3) there's a picture in the booklet that accompanied MMT of a fish-eyed lensed scene of the cast eating at a table. when turned 45 degrees and held up to a mirror it looks like a skull. its the ONLY picture in the booklet that doesn't appear in the film. 4) if you hold a mirror halfway up onto the sgt pepper cover's drum logo there's a strange message that the beatles are now 3 and paul is no longer among them.
there's no other way to explain these except that they were intentionally placed. personally, i believe it was an beatles inside joke that got out of hand that led fans to other clues that weren't intentional but purely coincidental and many more that are just silly. i always enjoyed the "paul-is-dead" myth. for one thing it demonstrates the power of fame and has social implications of mass psychosis.
btw, i have no idea how a fake moustache could be a hint that paul is dead. but when listening VERY closely to the background screaming of the "reprise" playing normally you can faintly make out paul screamming - "paul is dead. he's really, really dead." i can't hear this on my own but only when the vocal is isolated.
@@cjmacq-vg8um At the 1:09 mark of Reprise, Paul begins yelling and we can hear what sounds like:
"Paul McCartney's dead!
Really, really dead!
Paul McCartney's really dead!"
What I would like to know is HOW you can hear that vocal isolated?
Are you using an equalizer?
“When I asked John what he meant by “I buried Paul.”, John said “I buried him with my guitar.”, as in drowned him out.”
~ Allen Klein, 1969
@@spiritualarchitect4276... no, i heard it on youtube videos. but who knows? you can't believe anything you see or hear on-line anymore. but it sounded legit to me.
The "fake Mustache" was so Billy could hide recent surgery scars.@@cjmacq-vg8um
This is excellent. Well done.
According to Paul McCartney it was on his trip with Mal Evans that he came up with the whole sergeant pepper concept during one of the flights
It was in that flight that Paul supossedly heard someone to say "pass me the Salt and Pepper".
@@JesusVazquez-jz2qm yep
Loved this!
Love your channel James. I also love being "over analytical". At age 22 (1982) I started listening to the Beatles. Strawberry Fields was an INSTANT like. I still love the song. No doubt everybody hears differently. I thought the play out in that song, before I knew about Faul, was ----- I feel very small. Of course, we now know it is cranberry sauce.
In the time that has passed I have seen several "Beatles hoax" videos. The part about the VW LMW 28 IF. They mentioned the 28 IF but missed the LMW Linda McCartney weeps. I don't remember where I heard it but it seems to have been forgotten.
Take care and keep up the good work.
Adrian.
I am reminded of a quote from Nilsson’s story ‘The Point’ - “You see what you want to see and you hear what you want to hear.” Most of the ‘words’ when looked at purely phonetically are not the words many have concluded they are. It’s like the claimed “Turn me on dead man” which is supposedly “Number nine” backwards. If considered purely phonetically it sounds like “eeyon denmen”. There is no sound of the letter ‘t’ as that does not exist in the source phrase. You hear what you want to hear.
I can hear the t sound.
@@kensims4086: I came at it without a preconceived notion of what I was going to hear. You have better ears than I. I've found that once one gets the notion in their head (ears??) that it's hard to not hear something. This is especially true with figuring out lyrics. Fogerty does not sing 'there's a bathroom on the right' but there are many who think that's what's being sung. I've heard that John puts that phrase in now occasionally when he performs live as he finds it humorous. Thanks for your response!
Did you do the 'mirror' thing? It's mental.
This is so well done and you have me thinking it might have been done deliberately! Maybe Paul was looking for a character to lead his Lonely Hearts Club Band and went for Sgt Pepper because it created “it was a fake mustache” backwards. The whole salt and pepper story he tells about coming back on a plane with Mal Evans is just a cover story! Please keep these coming - interpreting Beatle songs and albums is always a lot of fun.
It's much more credible that "fake moustache" preceded "Sargent Pepper". When you know what was really going on in their lives, behind the scenes, much of what seems wildly imaginative is actually literal and autobiographic.
Great fun James
Amazing 👏.
I love the way people just assume that McCartney was the one who did this. Like John took a backseat to McCartney, McCartney take's a lot credit now for things that Beatles did now that Lennon is dead
You are SO correct. I think Paul came up with the idea around his car crash and the Paul Is dead rumor in January 1967. But all the band joined in ESPECIALLY JOHN. He's the one who gave us the CLUE.
If you watch Get Back you will hear John talking to Paul and admitting that he has always taken a back seat to Paul. The people who worked with them said the same thing too. John was impatient and lazy by his own admission. He spent most of his adult life watching tv stoned. The guy you think was John lennon is only in your imagination.
That's doesn't mean he wasn't great he was a rocker McCatney was a pop star sometimes doadering on bobble gum music
Neither of them “did this”. Fans did this, with their highly suggestible fan brains. “Backmasking” is nonsense. That said, given that nobody has ever refuted that the whole idea of the fictional Sgt Pepper and his Lonely Hearts Club Band was Paul’s idea (an idea which John made clear he had no interest in, openly deriding it in interviews in later years), and the line that apparently gives us the secret message about a moustache is simply the name of the titular band played backwards, trying to give John the credit for this supposed “secret message” is even more absurd.
And obviously John was well versed in backwards taping from all the hours he spent on #9.
A question: What software did you use to separate the tracks?
Well, Uncle Aleister Crowley is on the cover. He was all about the backwards. If you don't know about this, you need to research his influence on the Beatles. Apple Star = the pentagram you see when you cut open an apple.
Check out the end of Hello Goodbye in reverse, they chant his name.
Shirley Temple is on the cover three times, what nonsense are going to read into that?
@@sg-yq8pm what nonsense are you referring to?
@@sg-yq8pm I don't recall Shirley Temple being deeply involved in the occult. Although she did become chief advisor to US president Gerald Ford later in life which is quite a remarkable jump from being a child star.
That's ole AC behind Dors as well
Fantastic!!!
Brilliant job on the reversed version! ❤
Now I've got to listen to your backwards version the other way around 😮.
Interesting and nice observations... Pass me one of those sugar cubes 😊" I've got a hole in me pocket... Really? I've got half a hole."
What's even more remarkable is when you listen to the audio of this entire video backwards there are some extraordinary messages that you wouldn't believe. Shadzem yetvezol in...
Wow, thanks, I’ve always asked myself “ but how did they do that ??” Now I know!
John was the one into mucking with the tapes. He prob sent Paul home with his homework... Thus the runout groove is thus:
(Backwards)... Will Paul come back as Superman? (Forwards)... Never could be any other way!😂🎉😂
In strawberry fields video, "Paul" leaps into the tree
Well done sir.
Nice info.
See if you can find the version of I am the walrus that's not shortened
The Best "Backwards" song i know is Guernica but The Stone Roses...awesomely fearful war imagery conjures up in my head when i listen to it with the headphones on
I still feel ‘Don’t Stop’ is a bit of a cheeky filler.
@@swirlingfudgeYou're an imbecile 😉
@@swirlingfudgesome might call this heresy but the album would've been better if they'd just inserted elephant stone in Don't Stop's place. The latter wouldve been a nice b side
@@danielwarren3138 That’d work better. Personally I’d go with this sequencing:
I Wanna Be Adored
She Bangs The Drums
Waterfall
Bye Bye Badman
Where Angels Play
Btw mate what you have is synesthesia , seeing images of war whilst listening to ‘Guernica’. I have it too. Colours, images, imagination., triggered by music
Wives going to divorce me as I have been signing it was a fake moustache at the top of my voice around the house 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now do The Rutles' "Cheese and Onions", you will freak OUT, man.
We should've known better. The Beatles' ingenuity introduced somewhat of a palindrome!
I actually thought this video was gonna be about that weird loop at the end of album where Paul's singing in a high pitched voice, "Never could see any other way." (Or was it "never could be"?)
I have an explanantion that I think is a much more likelythan Paul deliberately hiding the backwards text. The Beatles had simply written and recorded Sgt. Pepper's LHCB and the reprise. We all know that George Martin and crew with the beatles had also experimented a lot directy with the tapes durng the production of the album. At some point SPLHCB was run backwards in the mixing room, at which point someone spotted the words "fake moustache". So not actively organised but it just happend so, but having noticed it, they then decided to include a fake moustache cut out and possibly even prompt all four to cultivate their moustaches for the famous cover photo.
I love your brain, james
That’s it! I’m just going to listen to ALL Music backwards only from now on.
Here's a hint: Getting Better is full of backmasking
I never understood the "Oasis lyrics are garbage" crap the press droned out. I went to the Ealrs Court gig Nov 1995, and while I was there my mate bought one of the tshirt with an Irish flag on it for "What's the Story?" and it clicked that the whole of Morning Glory was about Ireland and Britain's treatment thereof.
Especially seen in the lyrics of "She's Electric?" - she's got a sister and on the palm of her hand is a blister. And I immediately saw the Irish flag with the black hand in my mind.
Sure Noel can bung in nonsense lyrics like anyone can, but to dismiss them en masse is just silly. But we're talking about the press, who frankly know fuck all.
I used to try play (esp Beatles) records backwards on a turntable (damn hard to have anything close to consistent speed.) I later advanced to four track open reel and playing the tapes inside out (works, but sound is muffled unless you use really thin cheap tape stock). I'm glad I can now do it perfectly in Audacity! I would have "died" for the stuff we have now back in the '70s! LOL. I play ALL kinds of music backwards for giggles now from ELP to NWA!
You should try Weird Al backwards
@@danfoss1535 Oh, I have!😁
Doors and Floyd have some cool backmasking messages@@jamesslick4790
Don't stop, by the stone roses is the best example of the backmasked tracks,Waterfall backwards.
I love that album.
I listened first without reading, and instead of ‘it was a fake mustache’, I heard ‘the words are backwards, Nas, the words are backwards, Nas’.
Oh, James…you’re goofing on us! 😅😅😅
Apple in Japanese is Ringo, so maybe it was supposed to be directed at Ringo Starr?
Please do a lyrical interpretation of other Beatles album!!!
Very entertaining indeed!
Well after all, “the Walrus was Paul” and walruses have very prominent “mustaches” don’t they? 😮
If you play "Turn to Stone" by The Elecric Light Orchestra backwards you can clearly hear Dave from the film "Sex Lives of the Potato Men'" singing Psalms 26:4 to the tune of "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips". It amazes me that so many people confuse that with "The Marrow Song".
Just play any song backwards and you'll either hear or imagine you hear english words. Now think of the enormous effort it would take to hide this in a song that really nobody was going to play backwards especially in a pre digital era! It reminds me of the man in the moon concept-seeing something or in this case hearing something that isn't there no matter how much you want it to be.
No. In the late 60s/70s, we had record players that you could set between the speeds of 33 and 45 rpms. Then you could manually rotate the album backwards, and the sound would come out of the speaker. The Beatles themselves started this with the Paul is Dead rumors. The words "number nine" in reverse clearly becomes: Turn me on, deadman. The French words spoken by John (?) between I'm So Tired and Blackbird on the White album is clearly someone saying: Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss hm, miss him. None of these are coincidences. Think about how the Beatles had already stumbled upon backwards tapes by this point. What a laugh they must have had! All of it is completely plausaible.
David Lynch did this in Twin Peaks. you record the phrase you want to say backwards then you play it backwards to see what it sounds like, then record an imitation of that sound and play that backwards and you have the desired phrase backwards. although most of these backwards lyrics are just weird coincidences i think
The meaning of everything is so clear now! It WAS a fake mustache!
Billy needed it to hide surgery scars
You don't want to get any Raw Soup 🍲 in your fake mustache
A band I used to be in wrote a few songs with me writing all the lyrics. They were not very good songs, and, when I think about the lyrics today, I cringe.🤣
Anyway, this was early 90s, we went to a little studio and recorded a few. I remember one, (and i wish I could remember the words) that we were listening to on playback. The engineer was rewinding the tape without stopping it playing, and we all heard:
"I am the grandma"
Pretty clearly. 😂 Hilarious.
Then, of course, we had to run the whole song backwards to see if there was anything else. There wasn't, but that one part, which was repeated three times, was pretty funny.
But to be clear, you are NOT the Egg Man?
This is hilarious! I can see how BTS have been inspired by this album. They have hidden songs in albums and a universe of stories, messages, dropping clues to fans... Jimin's new song and mv Smeraldo Garden Marching Band has alot of references to the Sgt Pepper's album. He also mentioned that. Of course it ties in with the BTS universe and refers to The Truth Untold, Boy with Love, their made up folklore around the fictional Smeraldo flower and so much more too. The song itself is also quite Beatles inspired I think. I can't wait for the album Muse to come out, July 19!!! 💜
Paul didn't die, but they tried to "fake it". A clue on Sgt Pepper is how Paul's holding a woodwind instrument, but listening to the title track, it's clear that Sgt Pepper's band is a brass band.
After taking LSD, he was a profoundly changed man.
Not heard the term 'back-mask' before. Have you tried this on your own recordings before James? You'll be surprised!. It's also a good way to generate lyrics after a few, whatever's. It's Dylan who can really make my mind melt! Just try keep up with the references in Rough'n Rowdy Ways.
No. Wait. You've piqued my curiosity. What are you doing a few of before generating lyrics? :)
Also, I'm checking a bit of Dylan this evening, so thanks!
I believe that's what Ray Davies did to generate Autumn Almanac from the original 'this is my street' section according to Andy Partridge in a recent podcast. The reverse track is on YT.
Try listening to the Doors' "Riders On The Storm" backwards. Last song, last album. The last lines, backwards, are saying, "No more Jim Morrison, no more Jim Morrison..." It's quite clear.
8:20 "He's got me raw soup." Exactly what you'd expect a Beatle to say.
On the whole Faul/William Campbell thing see the poem on here about it, simply just type in the following title to see it…Paul McCartney writes poem to say he’s not been replaced
I don’t think Paul worked on a phrase that would work backwards, but rather heard the phrase when they flipped the tape over to try a backward solo or something else, and ran with the concept by adding the cutout in the album art and maybe even growing their own…
Check this out, James. This may add to the mystery of why Paul did this...
Disclaimer: I'm not religious or into any of this. This is just some strange facts around the Beatles and what they were into at the time.
From Aleister Crowley's work Liber ThIShARB sub figura CMXIII:
"First Method. Let the Exempt Adept first train himself to think backwards by external means, as set forth here following.
("a") Let him learn to write backwards, with either hand.
("b") Let him learn to walk backwards.
("c") Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom himself to these that they appear natural, and appreciable as a whole.
("d") Let him practise speaking backwards; thus for "I am He" let him say, "Eh ma I".
("e") Let him learn to read backwards. In this it is difficult to avoid cheating one's self, as an expert reader sees a sentence at a glance. Let his disciple read aloud to him backwards, slowly at first, then more quickly.
("f") Of his own ingenium, let him devise other methods."
...Notice he uses the words, "I am he," which John would then use to start I am the Walrus.
...Crowley graces the cover of Sgt. Pepper.
...He died 20 years before the release of the album.
...It was 20 years ago today, that Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.
...Those are supposed to be literal instructions on how to become a magician and cast spells on people.
I suggest looking into those friends Paul was hanging around with at the Indica Gallery, such as John Dunbar and Kenneth Anger (known Satanists), for an explanation of what they were up to and what they were getting into. Look at the Stones release after Sgt. Pepper. They were all getting pretty deep into Luciferianism and the occult, no doubt about it.
King of Cosmania/Son Of The Magickian
Maybe has some help? I Was@@vladjones2446
Strawberry Fields Forever end played backwards is an Ambulance siren. Apparently when Paul was in the car crash and he would be replaced by Billy Shears for years.
Also do you notice the prominent red traffic lights on the tree? There are green and yellow ones too I think but the red ones are the most prominent. Doesn't the story go that Paul ran a red light before crashing?
" he didn't notice that the lights have changed". I was just being funny about Billy Shears and the replacement
There are so many clues in the Strawberry Fields video@@overkill7990
And really, why the f^&k is "Paul' up there anyway? He's in heaven looking down on the others@@overkill7990
If he wanted “it’s a fake mustache” then why wouldn’t they just play “it’s a fake mustache” backwards and get right to it?
Playing records in reverse was a tenant of The beatles hero Aliester Crowely
@@user-fu2mi1nd5lthe Beatles hero was Elvis Presley.
"Musical' hero, AC magickal hero@@WorldwideWyatt
Alistair crowley is on the cover of sgt. peppers. He told his followers that they should learn to speak backwards.