Over 4 years on from our original episode about ‘Revolution 9’ (episode 25, in the show notes), we return to the topic with an audio version (including multiple sound clips) of a discussion that originally went out on video on Matt Williamson’s excellent you tube channel ‘Pop Goes The 60s’ back in March.
We discuss our origin stories with the track, it’s conception and recording, some of the ‘musique concrete’ works that influenced it, the other Beatles’ reaction to it and a few other things.
This is preceded by Antony’s thoughts on the new version of the ‘Let It Be’ film and some discussion/defence of Albert Goldman from a Mojo magazine special about John Lennon.
There are multiple links below to some interesting work, including quite a few avant-garde pieces that may not seem accessible but do have some rewards to be found if the mood is right, rather like ‘Revolution 9’ itself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WIuYjjARrw&t=1s
episode links
The original Glass Onion episode on Revolution 9
https://glassoniononjohnlennon.com/episode-25-revolution-9-john-lennon-drugs-vietnam-and-everyday-life
Revolution 9 songfacts
https://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/revolution-9/
Revolution 9 isolated tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqQ6lStuJwA
Revolution1 take 18 (the origin of Rev 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3glcY2LQIk
‘Avant-Garde’ and ‘Musique Concrete’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musique_concr%C3%A8te
Giles Martin mixes critiqued
https://somethingaboutthebeatles.com/2024/06/05/283-giles-on-trial-the-reissues-critiqued-with-john-leckie-and-jerry-hammack/
Liverpool vs Albert Goldman (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmQHhXRS7uU
One Hour with Albert Goldman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dI8pFvAiak
John Cage’s Rozart Mix
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICxG_o50y2E
Gesang Der Junglinge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpSO3UHKy_g
The Lovin’ Spoonful’s ‘War Games’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE86UINrJS4
Luis Bunuel’s ‘Un Chien Andalou’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbBfHy2qNeA
Dream Scene from the ‘Wonderwall’ film (1968)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=779ZlgO9low
2001: A Space Odyssey Stargate sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou6JNQwPWE0&t=57s
Salvador Dali dream sequence from Hitchcock’s ‘Spellbound’ (1945)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKDmLbMrAjc
