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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The ‘Pop Goes The 60s’ you tube channel and the video version of this discussion

https://www.youtube.com/@popgoesthe60s52

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