Beatles B-side (1966) notable for being one of the first popular recordings to use backward tape (backmasking) and for its innovative studio techniques — John Lennon's vocal was accidentally played backward and deliberately used.
Represents a moment in the Beatles' development when studio experimentation became an explicit artistic method — the studio as compositional tool rather than merely documentation medium.
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