McCartney Times

Unpopular Beatles songs are relatively few and far between. True stinkers in the band’s catalogue don’t seem to crop up all that much, but negative reactions tend to be saved for the band’s more experimental or twee outings. ‘You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)’, ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’, and ‘Wild Honey Pie’ are usually dismissed as novelty tracks, but none are of interminable length or aggressively un-musical origins. The same can’t be said for the band’s most notorious track, ‘Revolution 9’.

Even though he doesn’t perform on the track, Paul McCartney saw a link between the tape loop experiments he was doing on his own at the time and the final product of ‘Revolution 9’. When discussing the track, McCartney said: “‘Revolution 9’ was quite similar to some stuff I’d been doing myself for fun,” he recalled in Anthology. “I didn’t think that mine was suitable for release, but John always encouraged me”.

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