We kick off Season 2 with one of the Beatles’ most revolutionary recordings, “Tomorrow Never Knows.” While it would be the closing track on Revolver it was the first song recorded for the album, and although it would be both a creative and technical breakthrough, getting the final master on tape was quite an involved process. To help explore the mysteries of a song that still sounds unstuck in time, I’m joined by composer and music professor Joel Friedman and author Elizabeth Alker, who spoke to Paul McCartney about this recording for her new book, Everything We Do Is Music: How 20th Century Classical Music Shaped Pop.
REFERENCES
Recording the Beatles by Kevin Ryan and Brian Kehew
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions by Mark Lewisohn
