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"Main Writer: Lennon  Recorded: April 14 and 16, 1966  Released: May 30, 1966 7 weeks; no. 23 (B side)\r\n\"Rain\" is a Lennon song about nothing much &amp;mdash; \"People moaning because . . . they don't like the weather,\" he said. But the song, released months before Revolver as the B side to \"Paperback Writer,\" was the Beatles' first public attempt to capture the LSD experience on record. They did it by infusing the track with tantalizing sounds &amp;mdash; melting-chant harmonies, the brusque, leadlike flair of McCartney's bass, Starr's disorienting drum fills &amp;mdash; and the promise of a realm beyond the usual senses. \"I can show you,\" Lennon sings, \"can you hear me?\" &amp;mdash; as if he's already got a head start. The most surreal effect was an accident: While stoned, Lennon threaded a rough mix the wrong way on his home tape recorder. He was thrilled with the backward vocals he heard &amp;mdash; so thrilled he demanded the sound be used on the song's fade-out. \"From that point on,\" engineer Geoff Emerick wrote, \"almost every overdub we did on Revolver had to be tried backwards as well as forwards.\"\r\nAppears On: Past Masters\r\nRelated &amp;bull; The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: Beatles' \"Rain\" &amp;bull; Rob Sheffield on Ringo's Greatest Hit \"Rain\" &amp;bull; Photos: Rolling Stone Readers Pick the Top 10 Beatles Albums"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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