Did THE BEATLES Backmask an Entire Song? Discover the Hidden Track on Sgt Pepper!

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10 ай бұрын

In the world of Beatles conspiracy theories, legend tells of a secret 14th song on Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band called 'It Was A Fake Moustache'.
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@alistairwallace77 10 ай бұрын

I think “now folks, it really really was a fake moustache” is my new favorite Beatles lyric

@NewGoldStandard 10 ай бұрын

This.

@SpectiZ_ 10 ай бұрын

mines got to be "what was neeeyaaaaaz he's got me raw soup" that's an incredible line

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

@@SpectiZ_ And so INSPIRING! Nothing in "Imagine" comes CLOSE to this line! John and Paul were BEST when writing together!

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

It's gonna be my new ringtone!

@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection 9 ай бұрын

The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley

@lanatrzczka 9 ай бұрын

As Jimmy Page said a few years ago, "It's hard enough writing the music one-way around rather than backwards."

@parabot2 6 ай бұрын

It's not backmasking, something else is going on ( or you would not get phrases that make sense ) you would have things like example ( Pig what never car ) Yet many times we get very specific phrases that are complete and make sense . it's a very odd thing , but 100% real .

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 ай бұрын

Stairway reversed clearly has satanic messages, as do The Beatles

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 ай бұрын

The Law of reversal@@parabot2

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 3 ай бұрын

@@parabot2 Crowley MAGICK

@ghostroach4502 10 ай бұрын

Also, if you record someone saying Paul McCartney and reverse it, it says Ian Iachimoe. Ian Iachamoe is the name signed at the bottom of the lyric sheet for Paperback writer. And also in a few strange ads in the International Times. I agree, I'm sure he could have figured out the fake mustache part.

@danfoss1535 9 ай бұрын

Someone else might have even told it to him. Tavistock etc ...

@Kieop 28 күн бұрын

@@danfoss1535 It was William Burroughs who showed him how. Or so I've heard.

@henryalva8819 10 ай бұрын

Aleister Crowley's book, Magick. a) Let him (The Adept) learn to write backwards, with either hand. b) Let him learn to walk backwards. c) Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom him self to these that they appear natural and appreciable as whole. d) Let him practice speaking backwards: thus for "I am He" let him say, "Eh ma I." e) Let him learn to read backwards. In this it is difficult to avoid cheating one's self, as an expert reader sees a sentence at a glance. Let his disciple read aloud to him backwards, slowly at first, then more quickly. f) Of his own ingenium, let him devise other methods. This is the reason they were doing it. They even have Crowley as one of their heroes in the Pepper cover.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

Finally, someone who knows what these "lads' were really up to. Check out the end of Hello Goodbye in reverse

@vladjones2446 10 ай бұрын

King of Cosmania/Son Of The Magickian

@henryalva8819 10 ай бұрын

Also, Paul used Ian Iachimoe as a pseudonym, which is Paul McCartney when recorded and played to it backwards.

@MrRobChuck 3 ай бұрын

I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are altogether...

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 3 ай бұрын

@@MrRobChuck A tenant of ole Aleister

@hungfao 10 ай бұрын

We used to reverse the tapes on our reel-to-reels back in the 70s inspired by the Beatles. It's really amazing how simple normal conversation can become this weird OTHER conversation when reversed. My dad heard us doing that and learned to recite 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' in reverse by reversing himself reciting it normally. Then he recorded that so we could reverse it again. It worked though he had the oddest accent.

@roldo23 10 ай бұрын

Its been said that David Lynch used that technique for the "Other Place" accents in Twin Peaks.

@ndogg20 10 ай бұрын

I left a comment above about how almost if not all recordings played backwards would have supposed secret messages. Another You Tuber found messages in The Chipmunks and other pop records he backtracked. The key to it all is to let your imagination run wild and contrive meanings to what is all just gibberish.

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

Me and my siblings, all " budding musicians" (we all still play- at home!, LOL) did this stuff too back then. A four track reel-to-reel tape deck was a WONDERFUL, almost magical "toy" for sound experiments! Of course, we can do all this stuff and more with software (much easier), But we did have fun. As to what your dad did, I did this too! I'd say something, then reverse it then practice SAYING the reversed words. When I thought I "had it down", I'd record me saying the reversed words and reversing THAT. It's does make an odd accent, Cool as hell for BLAZED 16-year-old in 1978. All analog!! 👍😎👍

@hungfao 9 ай бұрын

@@jamesslick4790 BLAZED AND GLAZED. You coulda been one of the lugs I ran into along the way, for all I know. People you run into once. They showed up to party. Who cares. They're cool. Had good time riffing. Never see them again. The 70s.

@beneathpavement1 9 ай бұрын

Interestingly (for me, anyway), Mary Had A Little Lamb was the first human speech recorded, in 1877, by Thomas Edison.

@KenLieck 10 ай бұрын

Fact: The pic sleeve for the Japanese 45 of Paperback Writer and Rain includes the lyrics for the backward masking part read forwards. It says: "Stare it down and nourish what comes near you"...

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 10 ай бұрын

WOW!

@jastacio1 8 ай бұрын

This video is SPLENDID! Even if it turns out to be a rubbish theory, it’s SO MUCH FUN to speculate all of it. Well done!

@NewGoldStandard 10 ай бұрын

I'm so happy I'm sub'd to this channel. This is GREAT! Many thanks, as always.

@JamesHargreavesGuitar 10 ай бұрын

You’re very welcome 👍👍

@gardenmom6180 9 ай бұрын

I normally don't put much stock in reverse speech, but this had me rolling! Thank you for the captions, they made it great. 😂😂

@VortekStarling 10 ай бұрын

You missed one obvious thing to do, recording yourself saying "it was a fake moustache" and then playing it backwards so we can hear how they got "Sgt Pepper's lonely" from it. They must have started with the fake moustache line and then figured out what words would sound closest to it backwards. I can imagine Paul saying "it sounds like Sgt Pepper's lonely, dunnit. What can we add after that, Sgt Pepper's lonely what?" And so, music history was made.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

He did the same thing with "He's dead'. In reverse it became "Let it be".

@VortekStarling 10 ай бұрын

Really? I hadn't heard. I'll check it with an audio program, there may be others too.@@user-fu2mi1nd5l

@VortekStarling 10 ай бұрын

Yeah it sounds vaguely like he's dead, but even clearer , "words of wisdom" is "the superstar". So if one accepts that let it be is he's dead then the whole phrase is "he's dead, the superstar".@@user-fu2mi1nd5l

@VortekStarling 10 ай бұрын

BTW, I just used an online text to speech and made it say "it was a fake mustache" and it came out sounding like "shared some gifts for Zooie", nothing like it was a fake moustache, though in the actual song it does come out like that.@@user-fu2mi1nd5l

@jmkvelden 9 ай бұрын

Nice theory. However, it is very well documented how the name "Sgt. Pepper" came to be. During lunch, Mal Evans (their road manager at the time) asked Paul to pass him the "salt and pepper", which Paul misheard as "Sgt. Pepper".

@EnglishStrippedBare 5 ай бұрын

Bravo! Great job on the song at the end. It was a real pleasant surprise.

@anthonysallis 10 ай бұрын

Great stuff, well done with the contextual manipulations! Articles like this are far more interesting than those which don't play the music of their subject! I always thought it wasn't a fake moustache on Paul on the Pepper cover, it looked so natural, and the explanation of it being bespoke accounts for it. I listened to track 1 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band for comparison, and indeed, the reverse of John's vocal of the phrase 'We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' is 'it was a fake moustache' in all of the choruses. And this seems to be a quirk of John's vocals only - Paul singing the same phrase doesn't quite get there. Cheers!

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 10 ай бұрын

What nails this for me 100%: the very odd cut-out mustache that came with the original Sgt Pepper album in the 60s. I cut it out and actually tried to wear it as a kid. Even then I wondered why it was included. It didn't make sense. Now it does! I've been loving your Beatles videos. This video has earned a new subscriber! AMAZING content! Thank you!

@ChorltonandtheWheelies 10 ай бұрын

James - I'm *loving* all this Beatles content! They are the best band of all time and it still blows my mind that they made all that incredible innovative music in just a few short years and at such a young age. Obviously I am far too young to have ever seen them play but I saw Oasis 8 times - all bar 1 of those gigs was before they did "Be Here Now" so I wouldn't consider myself a superfan like yourself (I stopped listening to them after B.H.N) but I was fanatical about them in those early years. I share my birthday with Liam and am from South Manchester so in my youth I thought that it was written in the stars 😄 and of course when I found out how much they admired The Beatles - well that was the cherry on the cake. Please continue to do more deep dives into the fan four, I'm enjoying it immensely, thank you 😊✌

@dirkdiggler5902 10 ай бұрын

All proper Oasis fans stopped after Be Here Now- an utterly, utterly shite album.

@LuisGonzalez-hi8vg 10 ай бұрын

Hey guys u need to remember that the song I'm Only Sleeping has the guitar solo played backwards

@donjuan1811 10 ай бұрын

The Beatles were a creation of the Tavistock institute of mind control

@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection 9 ай бұрын

The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley

@theculturedthug6609 9 ай бұрын

All my mates were absolute Oasisi fanatics in the 90s. I didn't get really like them in the 90s except for Wonderwall and Don't Look Back In Anger. I got in to them in the 2000s. But my mates who were fanatics in the 90s went off them after BHN.

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

"Audio Anadrome" is a good name for a band. P.S. Your "Remix" is GENIUS! As a Beatles fan of 50 years, I loved it! 👍👍

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

Here is another clue for you all: The Anthology 3 cover. The pictures of John, George, and Ringo are all from the cover of Let It Be. The picture of Paul for Let It Be is torn away to reveal a picture of Paul from the Rubber Soul album. The original Paul. That is NOT an accident. That was done on purpose. This was a multi-million-dollar product they were releasing. Nothing was left to chance; it was all thought out ahead of time. The Beatles were STILL promoting the “Paul Is Dead” idea in the 1990’s. So you have 2 options: Paul is really dead or Paul is just playing with us. If you want to blame someone for the "Paul Is Dead" theory, blame Paul because he started it. And the McCartney 3 cover shows that Paul is STILL playing the "Paul is Dead" gimmick. What you are looking at is a DIE. It takes 2 DIE to make Dice. But there are not 2, only one. And the DIE does not show the number 4. THIS cover reads McCartney DIE, with 3 black spots for the other 3 Beatles. It's the most OBVIOUS "Paul is Dead" cover since "Let It Be".

@JeddorianJalapeno 10 ай бұрын

True to their nature as always they showed a bit of humour through that cover but of course to this day folks will still ramble on about conspiracies as you are doing right now and that is part of the fun that they had in playing mind games

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

@@JeddorianJalapeno So true, conspiracy is the act of 2 or more people conspiring together - usually for no good - and in this case we have 4 people. But it was meant as a harmless joke. Nothing bad should have came out of it. Just jokers joking around. But if you want to talk conspiracy, how about this: Jim Morrison heard the “Paul Is Dead” story and on the date of Brian Jones death, he faked his own death and split to Africa, with only him and Pam knowing. And of course the guy that saw him get on the plane, though he was not involved in the plan.

@BIZARBIES 9 ай бұрын

Faul>Paul

@AndrewLakeUK 9 ай бұрын

That always got me about people who actually believe the "Paul is dead" myth. The "fake" Paul looked and sounded exactly like the old one, bit with a scar, and he wrote some of the best music humans have ever produced. How must George feel that some random bloke they picked up to replace Paul was a much better songwriter than him.

@ericwalter4771 9 ай бұрын

You people all realize it’s not a myth right ?

@LawrenceRussellSaturnSelection 9 ай бұрын

The obsession with backwards messages comes from the magic of Crowley

@hofnerbassman737 10 ай бұрын

This is hilarious but informative at the same time ! This reminds me of those people who talk about synching up The Dark Side of the Moon with the Wizard Of Oz/2001 : A Space Odyssey. I heard that if you play all of "Definitely Maybe" backwards it sounds remarkably like "Revolver" ! Cheers Tim

@Dan-zr5em 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating content James, nicely presented as always!

@JamesHargreavesGuitar 10 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@caesarborgia4012 10 ай бұрын

@@JamesHargreavesGuitarme and my friends are on it since teenhood, learned to talk backwards between us for people not understand.... it's half half in music and every day speech, audio-pareidolia sometimes, but also an art in itself. In girum imus nocte... have you listen break on through (to the other side) to the other side ? Thyt s rock n roll , hell it is.... you do great work with your vidéos, thanks

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Now James, perform your magic for us on this one: the end of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) At the 1:09 mark of Reprise Paul begins yelling and we hear what sounds like: "Paul McCartney's dead! Really, really dead! Paul McCartney's really dead!"

@davidjordan2336 10 ай бұрын

My theory on these things is that it really is gibberish, but when we "know" what it's supposed to be saying (mostly because it kinda sorta sounds like actual words), then our brains fill in the gaps and make it work. I did an experiment with an ex-girlfriend, where I had her listen to the backwards Stairway to Heaven bit. She listened to it several times and couldn't make out a thing. Then I showed her what it was supposed to say, and she could instantly hear it. And once you've got it, you always hear it. For this one, I did my own listen without looking at the words here. And I came up with something quite different. I think some of mine fit better and some of his fit better. And I definitely can't hear "it was a fake moustache." What was kind of frustrating is that in some places I could have made coherent sentences with minor adjustments Anyway, here's my take on it. Have a song. In words. With every thousand words With every thousand words With every thousand words With every house Maybe the reputation Now the song in urban when goals With every house Make it snow we never can be worse Now a song in winter With every thousand words With every thousand words With every thousand words With every thousand words With every ass What was nast Is here a suit Never sorry in wings With every house Why should we all in we were here Never sorry went with every possum.

@GT380man 10 ай бұрын

Fascinating, yes, entrainment is definitely a thing. But it was a fake moustache 😊

@kennethraymondmoore 10 ай бұрын

You're exactly right about what's happening. It's all gibberish, but your brain is trying to make sense of it. Put on a foreign film in the background while you're doing something and you'll get the same effect. Your brain will try to make sense of it as English.

@caesarborgia4012 10 ай бұрын

All gibberish?! In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni.....break on through to the other side, man

@edwardmclaughlin719 10 ай бұрын

no it's not dummy@@kennethraymondmoore

@edwardmclaughlin719 10 ай бұрын

What great date you must have been how exciting. Did you play it before or after your TV dinners.

@nankypooh655 10 ай бұрын

Cool, story, Bro. Also love the hidden song. It's now one of my new favorite Beatle' songs.

@pelaronson4086 Ай бұрын

Great!! Thank You dear friend. ❤

@deadbeatdynamo 9 ай бұрын

Great video. Liked and subbed.

@matcoffidis1135 10 ай бұрын

That's crazy! Thank you for sharing....🤟✌️

@the_benjamin_effect 8 ай бұрын

Interesting, fun. Thanks doing this!

@Hernal03 10 ай бұрын

The technique you speculate that Paul may have used in finally getting to the right phrase is quite interesting --- he would have had to have listened to the forwardly recorded phrase _"It was a fake Moustache"_ and heard something similar to _"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"_ when playing it backwards. Many years latter a variation on that technique was used by David Lynch in his series TWIN PEAKS when he had some of his actors learn backward phrases insuring that they would enunciate them in a very deliberate and careful manner so that when the _forward_ spoken _backward_ phrase was actually _reversed,_ it would come out sounding something like straight English but with a surreal dreamlike tone to it. It can be a very fun experience to play with this type of thing but it was much easier back in the days of reel to reel tapes when you could easily reverse them on the spot without any specialized software.

@peteytwofinger 10 ай бұрын

Thats fine that you have this opinion , mine is different. i do not find it challenging to download or operate a pc. so i can download a free audio application which is called AUDACITY fairly quickly and painlessly . this does not caus me duress , because it is 2023. it is not very hard to drag and drop an audio file , select it , then click the effects tab and select reverse . back in the day when you had you buy a HUGE back breaking reel to reel ... connect your turn table to it , transfer the album to tape , fast forward to the song , flip BOTH reels carefully to not mar or tear the tape ... is this really less challenging . i am almost 60 years old but i am aware of the fact that any free digital audio workstation software such as reaper or cuebase will let you reverse audio with a single mouse click. its not just the common one AUDACITY that does this. perhaps unlike some, i am conscious of the fact that we live in an exciting time if you are a person who actually does make music. if this is the case then you are fully aware of the fact that the good ole days are now . longing for heavy inefficient tube based tape machines, well to me -this is a cop out. in the time you took to type that i could have downloaded audacity , and performed this edit. at that point the data as non linear . Do you understand the benefit of that ? I can assure you it tromps the tube/tape effect which is also easily obtainable thru plug ins these days. i was well aware of this one btw, for a good while but it did make me laugh out-loud when i heard it . its not so funny when you understand the other side of it . this was one of crowleys commandments . he was very specific about this effect and how to train yourself to be adept in reverse speech . keep em comin pal - you are knocking it out of the park with the beatles stuff .

@philipbrougham6360 9 ай бұрын

There was a short video on here that showed you how to play records backwards on a turntable with out having to reverse the motor ,at correct speed ,it worked very well !!

@bobbyboyderecords 9 ай бұрын

You could also listen through a mirror

@philipbrougham6360 9 ай бұрын

@@bobbyboyderecords Or an alternate universe !!

@SXTransmission 9 ай бұрын

It's easier to do with software than with a tape actually

@anadraham2995 10 ай бұрын

Super fun video - love it💯💜🎈

@Tmacker71165 10 ай бұрын

really enjoy your beatle insights james ...... rock on bro

@JamesHargreavesGuitar 10 ай бұрын

Cheers 👍👍👍

@louisspeciale823 10 ай бұрын

John Lennon came home stoned out of his mind ( these are John's words) with the song Rain and played the song and John Lennon did not realize it was on backwards and it blew his mind and the next day he showed the Beatles at Abbey Road studios. At the end of the song Rain the last sentence was played backwards on purpose. So John Lennon discovered it!! And I guess Paul McCartney liked it and they went from there.

@malcolmbuckoke2705 10 ай бұрын

Really love the Sgt Pepper review and this one! For me I think it more likely that they recorded it as a finished work then for fun Paul played it backwards and when he decided it added something to the whole story he put it in. 😎

@ericleiter6179 10 ай бұрын

Now I've got to play every song on the album backwards...brilliant!!!

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

Getting Better in reverse is quite a trip

@annefoster6024 Ай бұрын

Iamaphoney has already recorded their music backward. Check out his channel Iamaphoneymusic

@gregorywellman9423 9 ай бұрын

Well I just listened and didn't look at the screen for the suggested lyrics- and...nope virtually nothing. I did then go back and listen and see your lyrics suggestions and had some chuckles!.

@RhysPitman94 10 ай бұрын

Would love to see more Beatles related content on here.

@LP6_yt 9 ай бұрын

This is excellent. Well done.

@philippebyrnes1213 10 ай бұрын

Loved this!

@ajaxfilms 10 ай бұрын

Cool! David Lynch uses backwards dialogue in some of his movies. Gives a mysterious feeling.

@johnnyxmusic 9 ай бұрын

Brilliant job on the reversed version! ❤

@firesoulrocker 8 ай бұрын

Amazing 👏.

@adrifost 6 ай бұрын

Love your channel James. I also love being "over analytical". At age 22 (1982) I started listening to the Beatles. Strawberry Fields was an INSTANT like. I still love the song. No doubt everybody hears differently. I thought the play out in that song, before I knew about Faul, was ----- I feel very small. Of course, we now know it is cranberry sauce. In the time that has passed I have seen several "Beatles hoax" videos. The part about the VW LMW 28 IF. They mentioned the 28 IF but missed the LMW Linda McCartney weeps. I don't remember where I heard it but it seems to have been forgotten. Take care and keep up the good work. Adrian.

@tobiasheath529 10 ай бұрын

This is a very fascinating video, although as somebody who is blind and can't see the subtitles, the lyrics, "It was a fake moustache" sounds nothing like the clip backwards, even with the isolated vocal. The last syllable for example clearly sounds like an S sound, not sh or che. Also, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely heartsclub band is 9 syllables, and "It was a fake moustache" is 6. Still though, it is quite interesting hearing it backwards. Maybe if I knew what these backwards lyrics are meant to be, I would understand better. That being said, what you know or think can influence what you hear. Edit: I have just noticed that "Sergent Pepper's lonely" does have the same number of silables as "It was a fake moustache."

@JamesHargreavesGuitar 10 ай бұрын

Hi Tobias Here's what I thought the reverse lyrics could be interpreted as saying (hopefully you have some software that can read this out): Now for some... [Most commonly believed to say 'Apple Star'] It was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache Maybe if you refuse, taste it! Now folks Now it really really was a fake moustache Make us? No we'd never tell you Now folks, Now it was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache It was a fake moustache What was me ask he's got me raw soup Now folks, now it was a fake moustache Worship George Nyea Mya Hyooee Mwa Hyoo Now folks, now it was a fake moustache zoo

@tobiasheath529 10 ай бұрын

@@JamesHargreavesGuitar Thank you very much for writing this in, the software has indeed read it all out. It is a very fascinating proposition. I will listen to the song again after having read those lyrics.

@johnheart6890 10 ай бұрын

Fantastic!!!

@Mrs_Desnos 7 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks, I’ve always asked myself “ but how did they do that ??” Now I know!

@anthonycraig1458 9 ай бұрын

What's even more remarkable is when you listen to the audio of this entire video backwards there are some extraordinary messages that you wouldn't believe. Shadzem yetvezol in...

@mattychapati 10 ай бұрын

Interesting and nice observations... Pass me one of those sugar cubes 😊" I've got a hole in me pocket... Really? I've got half a hole."

@rathersane 9 ай бұрын

Maybe the whole reason they called it Sgt. Pepper’s was so they could have something that sounded like Fake Mustache in reverse.

@TheDandob1982 10 ай бұрын

Great fun James

@roncarlson7682 9 ай бұрын

I am reminded of a quote from Nilsson’s story ‘The Point’ - “You see what you want to see and you hear what you want to hear.” Most of the ‘words’ when looked at purely phonetically are not the words many have concluded they are. It’s like the claimed “Turn me on dead man” which is supposedly “Number nine” backwards. If considered purely phonetically it sounds like “eeyon denmen”. There is no sound of the letter ‘t’ as that does not exist in the source phrase. You hear what you want to hear.

@kensims4086 9 ай бұрын

I can hear the t sound.

@roncarlson7682 9 ай бұрын

@@kensims4086: I came at it without a preconceived notion of what I was going to hear. You have better ears than I. I've found that once one gets the notion in their head (ears??) that it's hard to not hear something. This is especially true with figuring out lyrics. Fogerty does not sing 'there's a bathroom on the right' but there are many who think that's what's being sung. I've heard that John puts that phrase in now occasionally when he performs live as he finds it humorous. Thanks for your response!

@rayc4244 10 ай бұрын

This is great! I first watched the video and read the "lyrics" - then replayed it and just listened. I couldn't discern any words (other than mustache). It's amazing how we can be manipulated into thinking these things were purposefully planted. It's fun to listen to either way.

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 10 ай бұрын

Like he said in the video, and that I've argued here in the comments: the original album in the 60s--which I had as a kid in 1968, had a very odd cut-out of a FAKE MOUSTACHE! WHY IN THE WORLD would that have been included? Of course they did it intentionally! BRILLIANT video!

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 9 ай бұрын

They were the masters of reversal.@@BeatlesCentricUniverse

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 9 ай бұрын

@@user-fu2mi1nd5l Indeed!

@sg-yq8pm 9 ай бұрын

@@BeatlesCentricUniverse "WHY IN THE WORLD would that have been included?" It was a novelty inclusion because they all had a moustache on the album photos DERR

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 9 ай бұрын

@@sg-yq8pm Wrong. Derr.

@steviebarr7353 12 күн бұрын

Interesting the bit about raw soup, here is a passage written about Tara Browne who A Day In The Life was written about:- As a child, in his blue satin pyjamas, he would walk barefoot along the table whenever his mother, Oonagh, Lady Oranmore, would be hosting a dinner party. “Hello, I’m Tara,” he would say to the guests in turn. Once, at Claridge’s in London, he caused diners to drop their spoons when he shouted, “I asked for cold vichyssoise, not hot, you c**t” at the waiter.

@lucyfuir6386 10 ай бұрын

According to Paul McCartney it was on his trip with Mal Evans that he came up with the whole sergeant pepper concept during one of the flights

@JesusVazquez-jz2qm 10 ай бұрын

It was in that flight that Paul supossedly heard someone to say "pass me the Salt and Pepper".

@lucyfuir6386 10 ай бұрын

@@JesusVazquez-jz2qm yep

@dan2050 10 ай бұрын

This is so well done and you have me thinking it might have been done deliberately! Maybe Paul was looking for a character to lead his Lonely Hearts Club Band and went for Sgt Pepper because it created “it was a fake mustache” backwards. The whole salt and pepper story he tells about coming back on a plane with Mal Evans is just a cover story! Please keep these coming - interpreting Beatle songs and albums is always a lot of fun.

@jerrylev59 8 ай бұрын

It's much more credible that "fake moustache" preceded "Sargent Pepper". When you know what was really going on in their lives, behind the scenes, much of what seems wildly imaginative is actually literal and autobiographic.

@sally-cinnamon 4 ай бұрын

By your INSANEEE analysis, you should scratch oasis and start researching on the beatles, cause there's like 909 more rooms to explore. Their lore and music mixing is a vast ocean of secrets. I literally spent a whole day reading the whole beatles iceberg from top to bottom. It's insanee I know

@johnnyxmusic 9 ай бұрын

Oh, James…you’re goofing on us! 😅😅😅

@MrPublicPain 10 ай бұрын

I think it is even easier than that my friend. "It was a fake mustache" is the source. Sing or say "It was a fake mustache" and then spin the tape backwards. Then come up with Lyrics to fit the wanted backward phrase. Now? Sing the invented right way lyics repeat and refine. Once you do it that way you could do the reprise in 4 hours or less. All of the music is in reverse. Did you know that? Everything. Listen to The Beatles Remix uploaded by The Beatles and it is dead obvious to me (I make records) that the entire song is backward so the forward lyrics are actually backward. Listen. The attack and decay give it away for each instrument. Zero instruments are forward on the final song. It is not hard to do and not that novel, actually ubiquitous in Classical music. Often phrases are inverted or reversed. Once you write the notes down it is simple to reverse an entire song. Ballsy is what it is, not "new" on the music side. The Lyrics are new because they require a reel to reel and playing around.

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for posting how easy it is. Too bad reel to reel machines are sooo expensive. Otherwise we would all be having fun with their recordings.

@Yougotadollar 9 ай бұрын

Well done sir.

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

I'm soo proud of you James for realizing right away that it was the Beatles themselves who created the Paul Is Dead myth.

@MankyFrilla 10 ай бұрын

Did you do the 'mirror' thing? It's mental.

@andrewrobinson2565 10 ай бұрын

Now I've got to listen to your backwards version the other way around 😮.

@jastacio1 8 ай бұрын

A question: What software did you use to separate the tracks?

@tmamone83 8 ай бұрын

I actually thought this video was gonna be about that weird loop at the end of album where Paul's singing in a high pitched voice, "Never could see any other way." (Or was it "never could be"?)

@peterrichard3706 10 ай бұрын

Nice info. See if you can find the version of I am the walrus that's not shortened

@kieranjquigg6670 10 ай бұрын

Wives going to divorce me as I have been signing it was a fake moustache at the top of my voice around the house 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@pbrecipe2443 10 ай бұрын

I love your brain, james

@kincaide67 10 ай бұрын

Very entertaining indeed!

@MrRobChuck 3 ай бұрын

Paul: Don’t say anything John but I’m kinda insecure about the fact I can’t grow a moustache so I had to use a fake one. John: Sure Also John:

@jonasrmb01 10 ай бұрын

it's johnny's birthday - "he never wore his shoes we all know he was dead"

@KnialPiper 10 ай бұрын

Please do a lyrical interpretation of other Beatles album!!!

@user-xv9yc4wb2x 9 ай бұрын

If you play the middle 8 of The Kinks 'Autumn Almanac' backwards, you hear the chorus forwards. Thank you for your time.

@mylerism 9 ай бұрын

8:20 "He's got me raw soup." Exactly what you'd expect a Beatle to say.

@paulbowman2340 10 ай бұрын

Don't stop, by the stone roses is the best example of the backmasked tracks,Waterfall backwards.

@kensims4086 9 ай бұрын

I love that album.

@jimroscovius 9 ай бұрын

Anyone can make stuff up by adjusting the audio. ELO purposely did some backmasking on a few songs.

@joeakajoe1 6 ай бұрын

David Lynch did this in Twin Peaks. you record the phrase you want to say backwards then you play it backwards to see what it sounds like, then record an imitation of that sound and play that backwards and you have the desired phrase backwards. although most of these backwards lyrics are just weird coincidences i think

@navasaband 9 ай бұрын

I don’t think Paul worked on a phrase that would work backwards, but rather heard the phrase when they flipped the tape over to try a backward solo or something else, and ran with the concept by adding the cutout in the album art and maybe even growing their own…

@pureboxofscartcables 9 ай бұрын

If you play "Turn to Stone" by The Elecric Light Orchestra backwards you can clearly hear Dave from the film "Sex Lives of the Potato Men'" singing Psalms 26:4 to the tune of "Tip-Toe Through the Tulips". It amazes me that so many people confuse that with "The Marrow Song".

@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz 9 ай бұрын

I have an explanantion that I think is a much more likelythan Paul deliberately hiding the backwards text. The Beatles had simply written and recorded Sgt. Pepper's LHCB and the reprise. We all know that George Martin and crew with the beatles had also experimented a lot directy with the tapes durng the production of the album. At some point SPLHCB was run backwards in the mixing room, at which point someone spotted the words "fake moustache". So not actively organised but it just happend so, but having noticed it, they then decided to include a fake moustache cut out and possibly even prompt all four to cultivate their moustaches for the famous cover photo.

@cristop5 9 ай бұрын

It's just our minds finding patterns. Like that face on Mars.

@areamusicale 10 ай бұрын

0:46 Hallelujah! Finally somebody I could enjoy a bear with!

@areamusicale 10 ай бұрын

PS: there was a rumour about this track being released in the Anthology under the name SPLHCB and Paul paying £1M to withdraw all records and destroy them, but no article can be found about this.

@blllrando207 10 ай бұрын

WHÀT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH THE ( BEAR ) 🐻

@lamper2 10 ай бұрын

Just play any song backwards and you'll either hear or imagine you hear english words. Now think of the enormous effort it would take to hide this in a song that really nobody was going to play backwards especially in a pre digital era! It reminds me of the man in the moon concept-seeing something or in this case hearing something that isn't there no matter how much you want it to be.

@BeatlesCentricUniverse 10 ай бұрын

No. In the late 60s/70s, we had record players that you could set between the speeds of 33 and 45 rpms. Then you could manually rotate the album backwards, and the sound would come out of the speaker. The Beatles themselves started this with the Paul is Dead rumors. The words "number nine" in reverse clearly becomes: Turn me on, deadman. The French words spoken by John (?) between I'm So Tired and Blackbird on the White album is clearly someone saying: Paul is a dead man. Miss him, miss hm, miss him. None of these are coincidences. Think about how the Beatles had already stumbled upon backwards tapes by this point. What a laugh they must have had! All of it is completely plausaible.

@lundsweden 8 ай бұрын

What if McCartney started off recording "fake mustache", reversed it, discovered St. Peppers, decided to make a fake band concept from it- its mad!

@randb4865 10 ай бұрын

That's the funniest thing I've heard today! ...but the day is still young.

@justmadeit2 9 ай бұрын

On the whole Faul/William Campbell thing see the poem on here about it, simply just type in the following title to see it…Paul McCartney writes poem to say he’s not been replaced

@PlampinUK 10 ай бұрын

Well, I am convinced🙂

@johncalcx9529 9 ай бұрын

Apple in Japanese is Ringo, so maybe it was supposed to be directed at Ringo Starr?

@ChubbyChecker182 10 ай бұрын

The Best "Backwards" song i know is Guernica but The Stone Roses...awesomely fearful war imagery conjures up in my head when i listen to it with the headphones on

@swirlingfudge 10 ай бұрын

I still feel ‘Don’t Stop’ is a bit of a cheeky filler.

@amaj7313 10 ай бұрын

@@swirlingfudgeYou're an imbecile 😉

@danielwarren3138 10 ай бұрын

@@swirlingfudgesome might call this heresy but the album would've been better if they'd just inserted elephant stone in Don't Stop's place. The latter wouldve been a nice b side

@swirlingfudge 10 ай бұрын

@@danielwarren3138 That’d work better. Personally I’d go with this sequencing: I Wanna Be Adored She Bangs The Drums Waterfall Bye Bye Badman Where Angels Play

@swirlingfudge 10 ай бұрын

Btw mate what you have is synesthesia , seeing images of war whilst listening to ‘Guernica’. I have it too. Colours, images, imagination., triggered by music

@bpabustan 10 ай бұрын

For all we know, The Beatles themselves capitalized on the Paul is dead rumor for a grand conspiracy joke.

@jerald6023 10 ай бұрын

Nope,it's much deeper & based on actual events

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

And it's to do with the occult.....Crowely on pepper cover@@jerald6023

@vladjones2446 10 ай бұрын

They were irritated by it and were constantly ‘debunking’ it in interviews, they never seemed that amused or enamoured by it so that doesn’t really hold water.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

Then why "Paul" on his last album call it McCartney Die??@@vladjones2446

@markboyd9275 9 ай бұрын

It seems the record companies did little to dispel since it increased sales slightly. Capitol-iced. Faul-heads need to get a life.

@ricknorris1466 10 ай бұрын

That’s it! I’m just going to listen to ALL Music backwards only from now on.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

Here's a hint: Getting Better is full of backmasking

@truthnjustice8315 9 ай бұрын

The next lyrical deep dive you should do wuld be Elton and bernie

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

I used to try play (esp Beatles) records backwards on a turntable (damn hard to have anything close to consistent speed.) I later advanced to four track open reel and playing the tapes inside out (works, but sound is muffled unless you use really thin cheap tape stock). I'm glad I can now do it perfectly in Audacity! I would have "died" for the stuff we have now back in the '70s! LOL. I play ALL kinds of music backwards for giggles now from ELP to NWA!

@danfoss1535 9 ай бұрын

You should try Weird Al backwards

@jamesslick4790 9 ай бұрын

@@danfoss1535 Oh, I have!😁

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 ай бұрын

Doors and Floyd have some cool backmasking messages@@jamesslick4790

@JimDangerZone 9 ай бұрын

Try listening to the Doors' "Riders On The Storm" backwards. Last song, last album. The last lines, backwards, are saying, "No more Jim Morrison, no more Jim Morrison..." It's quite clear.

@SeltaebEht 10 ай бұрын

There is another song that can be listen in reverse all the way; it is " You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) " .... I made a music video around it, if you wanna check it out ...

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

I just subbed because I want to watch your pid series. Can't believe someone made a Two Virgins statue. Yoko looks good from behind.

@lar57jsy Ай бұрын

Ha! Such silly fun, this! :D

@cjmacq-vg8um 10 ай бұрын

i've been saying this for decades. first, you don't have to believe paul is really dead to find the "paul-is-dead" myth fascinating and fun. this myth only adds to the beatles' overall mystique. today's beatle fan, like everyone else it seems, is ridiculously fanatical. second, at least 4 "clues" had to have been purposely placed. 1) the jibberish at the end of "i'm so tired" that backwards says "paul is dead man, miss him, miss him." that was purposely put there. there's no other way to explain it. 2) the end of "strawberry fields forever" that says "i buried paul." we all lnow now lennon says "cranberry sause" but also they left phrase muddled and hard to hear. i'm sure SOMEONE among the beatles noticed what it sounded like but they purposely left it so it could be misinterpreted. 3) there's a picture in the booklet that accompanied MMT of a fish-eyed lensed scene of the cast eating at a table. when turned 45 degrees and held up to a mirror it looks like a skull. its the ONLY picture in the booklet that doesn't appear in the film. 4) if you hold a mirror halfway up onto the sgt pepper cover's drum logo there's a strange message that the beatles are now 3 and paul is no longer among them. there's no other way to explain these except that they were intentionally placed. personally, i believe it was an beatles inside joke that got out of hand that led fans to other clues that weren't intentional but purely coincidental and many more that are just silly. i always enjoyed the "paul-is-dead" myth. for one thing it demonstrates the power of fame and has social implications of mass psychosis.

@cjmacq-vg8um 10 ай бұрын

btw, i have no idea how a fake moustache could be a hint that paul is dead. but when listening VERY closely to the background screaming of the "reprise" playing normally you can faintly make out paul screamming - "paul is dead. he's really, really dead." i can't hear this on my own but only when the vocal is isolated.

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

@@cjmacq-vg8um At the 1:09 mark of Reprise, Paul begins yelling and we can hear what sounds like: "Paul McCartney's dead! Really, really dead! Paul McCartney's really dead!" What I would like to know is HOW you can hear that vocal isolated? Are you using an equalizer?

@spiritualarchitect4276 10 ай бұрын

“When I asked John what he meant by “I buried Paul.”, John said “I buried him with my guitar.”, as in drowned him out.” ~ Allen Klein, 1969

@cjmacq-vg8um 10 ай бұрын

@@spiritualarchitect4276... no, i heard it on youtube videos. but who knows? you can't believe anything you see or hear on-line anymore. but it sounded legit to me.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

The "fake Mustache" was so Billy could hide recent surgery scars.@@cjmacq-vg8um

@matm4331 9 ай бұрын

The meaning of everything is so clear now! It WAS a fake mustache!

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 6 ай бұрын

Billy needed it to hide surgery scars

@ClueSign 10 ай бұрын

Now do The Rutles' "Cheese and Onions", you will freak OUT, man.

@tomsherwood4650 10 ай бұрын

People talked of backwards messages back in the day but few had a tape deck that could play the same tracks forwards and back since tapes are made to play separate tracks on each side of the tape such as quarter track RTR and cassettes. Of course you could try to turn your records backwards by hand like they did back then. Good way to wreck an expensive phono stylus though.

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

And also ruin the record.

@andya9487 9 ай бұрын

I read somewhere that Paul grew the pepper moustache to hide his lip/tooth injury from his scooter crash and the others followed suit

@pbrecipe2443 10 ай бұрын

JH, you content connoisseur.

@davidkiddjones 9 ай бұрын

You are bonkers 😅 But i love it ...Nice Wan

@familydogg1234 10 ай бұрын

Strawberry Fields Forever end played backwards is an Ambulance siren. Apparently when Paul was in the car crash and he would be replaced by Billy Shears for years.

@overkill7990 10 ай бұрын

Also do you notice the prominent red traffic lights on the tree? There are green and yellow ones too I think but the red ones are the most prominent. Doesn't the story go that Paul ran a red light before crashing?

@familydogg1234 10 ай бұрын

" he didn't notice that the lights have changed". I was just being funny about Billy Shears and the replacement

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 10 ай бұрын

There are so many clues in the Strawberry Fields video@@overkill7990

@user-fu2mi1nd5l 4 ай бұрын

And really, why the f^&k is "Paul' up there anyway? He's in heaven looking down on the others@@overkill7990