871 The Beatles “Rain” 1966

“JOHN: People ask me what music I listen to. I listen to traffic and birds singing and people breathing. And fire engines. I always used to listen to the water pipes at night when the lights were off, and they played tunes. Half the musical ideas I’ve had have been accidental. The first time I discovered backwards guitar was when we made ‘Rain’. This was a song I wrote about people moaning about the weather all the time. I took the tracks home to see what gimmicks I could add, because the song wasn’t quite right…That one was the gift of God—of Jah, actually, the god of marijuana. Jah gave me that one” (The Beatles Anthology, 2000). 

The Beatles “Rain”