Title:	Revolution 9
Credits:	John Lennon - Paul McCartney
Recorded:	EMI Studios, London, 6 June 1968
Producer:	George Martin
Location:	The Beatles - track 12, disc 1

The Beatles' strangest released "song", almost entirely the work of John Lennon, with some assistance from George Harrison and assistance/ Inspiration from Yoko Ono. It first took shape as a separate entity on 6 June when the last six minutes of the original Revolution 1 recording was discarded. In the days that followed, John slowly built upon those six minutes, turning the sound into a collage of effects, backwards tapes, loops and noises. The end result, running over eight minutes and almost impossible to dissect, is an aural barrage of noise, for the most part oppressive and overpowering. Few people have listened to it all the way through more than once. The identity of the man saying "number nine" has never been established, the words being lifted off an old examination recording for the Royal Academy of Music then kept in the library at Abbey Road.