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More "White Album" trivia:

The bass on "I Will" is just Paul sing "dummm, dummm, dummm, dum dum..."

Martha in "Martha, My Dear" is Paul's sheepdog

Sadie in "Sexy Sadie" is the Maharishi

Prudence in "Dear Prudence" is Mia Farrow's sister

"Don't Pass Me By" is the only Beatles song for which Ringo received full writing credits

The 'Number nine, number nine... ' in "Revolution #9" is said to have come from a BBC recording. When reversed, many believe that it says "Turn Me On Dead Man"

There are many "clues" to the "Paul is Dead" rumor on the White Album. Another one is the spoken bit after "I'm So Tired," which, when played backwards conspiracy theorists claim says "Paul's a dead man. Miss him. Miss him. Miss him."

"Blackbird" is a song about equal rights.

Eric Clapton plays the guitar solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
(Later, Clapton will write "Layla" about his love for George Harrison's wife Patti, who he would eventually hook up with)

[Motorboat Cruiser]

Originally Posted by mousepod

The 'Number nine, number nine... ' in "Revolution #9" is said to have come from a BBC recording. When reversed, many believe that it says "Turn Me On Dead Man"

There are many "clues" to the "Paul is Dead" rumor on the White Album. Another one is the spoken bit after "I'm So Tired," which, when played backwards conspiracy theorists claim says "Paul's a dead man. Miss him. Miss him. Miss him."

There are also many clues on both Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper. Focusing on Sgt Pepper, there is a grave of marijuana leaves on the cover, along with somone holding an extended palm over McCartney's head, which signifies in some cultures that a person is dead. He supposedly died in a car crash (He blew his mind out in a car). And he died on Wednesday morning, at five o' clock ( a lyric that George is pointing to on the back cover). There is a bass guitar (Paul's instrument) made of flowers. It only has 3 strings, rather than the typical four, as in, there are only 3 of 4 Beatles alive. Paul has his back to the camera on the back photo, while all the others are facing forward. The songs introduce a new person, "Billy Spears", who is the supposed replacement for McCartney ("I don't really want to stop the show"). Others claim that the replacement was an english actor named William Campbell, who interestingly enough is in an original Star Trek episode. He bears a slight resemblence to McCartney but nothing to write home about.

Sgt Pepper is also interesting in that it was the first album ever to have the entire lyrics printed on it. It is the first to have songs that seamlessly run into each other, rather than there being a silence in between.

That's all I can remember from memory.

Other musical tidbits...

Buddy Rich, one of the finest jazz drummers to ever live couldn't read a note of music.

Eubie Blake, composer and pianist, only played in the key of C. He had a special piano made that allowed him to shift the entire keyboard up a half-step, allowing him to play in C#.

Elvis Presley's favorite music to sing was gospel.

"Georgia (on my mind)" was not written by Ray Charles but by Hoagy Carmichael

Brian Jones (Rolling Stones), Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, and Kurt Kobain all died at the age of 27.