John Lennon himself is the person responsible for the “backwards” claim.
” page — about the legend of a music student caught handing in a backwards version of someone else’s composition rather than creating his own — we discuss the concept that one cannot create a viable piece of music by simply reversing an existing work. This prompted many readers to write to us and maintain that
had done just that, creating the song “Because” by turning Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata” backwards. Although there is some basis for this statement, “Because” is far from being merely a reversed version of a Beethoven work in the literal sense implied in the college legend. Beethoven’s sonata in C-sharp minor , written in 1801, has been associated with a number of romantic stories. When the sonata was published in 1803 it was dedicated to his young piano student Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, but Beethoven apparently did not have her in mind at the time he wrote it.
Finding similarities between the music of the Beatles and Beethoven is intriguing because it highlights a commonality between the high art of a cultured classical composer and the popular music of four provincial, musically unschooled and self-taught Liverpudlian youths, and the idea of the Beatles’ turning a piece of music backwards certainly requires no stretch of the imagination when one recalls their use of reversed vocals in the fade-out of “Rain” or the backwards guitar solo in “I’m Only...
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