In his 2012 book on the making of '' Revolver '' , Robert Rodriguez highlights McCartney 's walkout as one of " a handful of unsolved Beatles mysteries " . When identifying the probable causes for McCartney 's uncharacteristic behaviour , Rodriguez cites later comments made by Lennon : specifically that Lennon appreciated Harrison 's tendency to " take it as-is " whereas McCartney often took a musical arrangement in a direction he himself preferred ; and that , given Lennon and Harrison 's habit of teasing their bandmate over his refusal to take LSD , McCartney possibly felt alienated by the song 's subject matter . Lennon expressed satisfaction with the completed track , adding , " The guitars are great on it . " EMI 's Parlophone label released '' Revolver '' on 5 August 1966 , one week before the Beatles began their final North American tour . " She Said She Said " was sequenced as the last track on side one of the LP , following " Yellow Submarine " . Actress Salli Sachse , who appeared with Fonda in the 1967 film '' The Trip ( 1967 film ) '' , recalled of his reaction to the release : " Peter was really into music . He could n't wait until The Beatles ' '' Revolver '' album came out . We went to the music store and played it , trying to hear any hidden messages . " Writing in 2017 , Alec Wilkinson of '' The New Yorker '' said that " She Said She Said " introduced " circumstances novel to western awareness " , a theme that had " no obvious antecedent or reference " in pop music . As with much of the album , the song confused many of the band 's younger or less-progressive fans . According to sociologist Candy Leonard : " For two and a half minutes they heard John recounting an impassioned conversation about something that seemed very important but totally incomprehensible . And the echoing guitar riff is a full participant in the conversation . Fans were bewildered . " The song was an early example of acid rock , a genre that came to the fore in Britain and America in the wake of '' Revolver '' . In his book on the Swinging London phenomenon , Shawn Levy identifies the album 's " trio of tuned-in , blissed-out , spiked and spaced tunes " by Lennon – " Tomorrow Never Knows " , " She Said She Said " and " I 'm Only Sleeping " – as especially indicative of the Beatles ' transformation into " the world 's first household psychedelics , avatars of something wilder and more revolutionary than anything pop culture had ever delivered before " . '' Rolling Stone '' attributes the development of the Los Angeles and San Francisco music scenes , including subsequent releases by the Beach Boys , Love and the Grateful Dead , to the influence of '' Revolver '' , particularly the " conjunction of melodic immediacy and acid-fueled mind games " in " She Said She Said " . The song was much admired by American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein . In his 1967 television special '' Inside Pop : The Rock Revolution '' , he described it as a " remarkable song " and demonstrated its shift in time signature as an example of the Beatles ' talent for inventive and unexpected musical devices in their work
their final North American tour
The Beatles' 1966 US tour
She Said She Said