Rodriguez describes Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows" as "the greatest leap into the future" of the Beatles' recording career up to this point. The recording includes reverse guitar, processed vocals, and looped tape effects, accompanying a strongly syncopated, repetitive drum-beat. Lennon adapted the lyrics from Timothy Leary's book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which equates the realisations brought about through LSD with the spiritually enlightened state achieved through meditation. Originally known as "Mark I", and then briefly "The Void", the eventual title came via one of Starr's malapropisms.
Rodriguez describes Lennon's "Tomorrow Never Knows" as "the greatest leap into the future" of the Beatles' recording career up to this point The recording includes reverse guitar processed vocals and looped tape effects accompanying a strongly syncopated repetitive drum-beat Lennon adapted the lyrics from Timothy Leary's book The Psychedelic Experience A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead which equates the realisations brought about through LSD with the spiritually enlightened state achieved through meditation Originally known as "Mark I" and then briefly "The Void" the eventual title came via one of Starr's malapropisms