Fretful Friday

You know how in the song "I'm Only Sleeping", it sounds like George is playing his guitar solo backwards? That's because he is. It is a common misconception that this was another of their songs to feature "backmasking",
as in "Tomorrow Never Knows" or "Rain".

In fact, George was so intent upon wanting it to sound as though it really was played backwards, that he ended up playing it backwards. He wrote the notations for the backwards solo and outro, then played them twice, one with a fuzz effect, one without. It took him five hours to achieve this to his satisfaction, and it was then reversed *again* for the final version of the song.

So, here is George's double-guitar backwards solo in all its innovative genius:




and here it is backwards, so that you can hear how the guitars sounded in their original recording.