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... or is it?

Is the unreleased take of "Revolution" that created such a buzz a fake? ... the overwhelming sentiment, especially among Beatle experts, say that it appears to be real. Ritchie Unterberger ... talks about that on Music Radar "With technology these days, it certainly seems theoretically possible to manufacture and overdub some effects that are heard on the circulating version. A particular feature of this circulating recording is the weird, unclassifiable flowing and ebbing swell of a note that occurs throughout - it's what I call a 'train-passing-by' sound. It seems like it could be an electronically manipulated effect or perhaps even a distorted snatch of a harmony vocal," he says. "When I hear them, they don't sound impossible to me that they could have been part of the original recording. The Beatles were coming up with all kinds of unpredictable and futuristic effects in the studio, especially in their final years."

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