Title:	Tomorrow Never Knows
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	6th, 7th April 1966 Abbey Road 3; 22nd April 1966 Abbey Road 2
Line- up:	Lennon vocal, organ, tape-loops; McCartney bass, tape-loops; Harrison guitars, sitars, tambura, tape-loops; Starr drums, tambourine, tape-loops; George Martin piano
Producer:	George Martin
Engineer:	Geoff Emerick
Location:	Revolver - track 14
UK Release:	5th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)
US Release:	8th August 1966 (LP: Revolver)

The Beatles had worked almost everyday for five years when, after issuing the single Day Tripper/ we Can Work It Out, the album Rubber Soul and touring Britain for what turned out to be the last time, they demanded a break from this punishing schedule, taking off the first three months of 1966. Clearly refreshed, and full of yet more innovative ideas, they convened at EMI Studios on 6 April and began work on their seventh album, Revolver, with what turned out to be its closing and most progressive number, Tomorrow Never Knows.

Here was Beatles music like of which had never before been heard ... or made. Here was a dramatic new direction for a musical form that was ceasing to be "pop" and developing into "rock". Here was a thrilling orgy of sound, all the more inventive for being made within the confines of 1966 four-track technology, less reliant on melody but focusing more on the conveyance of mind-pictures on to tape. Tomorrow never knows is all of this in a single piece of music, the released version (Take 3) being as stunning now as it was over 30 years ago. Recorded under its working title as Mark 1, take 1, issued on the Anthology set is notably different, but in its own way, just as compelling.

The Beatles' music had indeed come a long way in the four years since Love Me Do

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