A Day In The Life by the Beatles...

[AmazonRasta]

At the end of the song, there is a whole bunch of stuff being said and it kind of sounds like, "Never could see any other way." It gets repeated over and over, or so it sounds. Does anybody know what they are actually saying?

Oh, a friend told me that you have to listen to it backwards to understand it. Is this true? I don't really care, I just want to understand what they are saying.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Not sure what's being said. I remember reading somewhere that on the original vinyl, there was a groove cut into the record so that that part would repeat forever on your record player.

 

[SludgeFactory]

OK, I found it. Here you go

The very end of the album typifies the advanced studio trickery applied throughout Sgt. Pepper. After the last droplets of the crashing piano chord of "A Day in the Life" have evaporated, come a few seconds of 15 kilocycle tone, put there - - - especially to annoy your dog - - - at the request of John Lennon. Then as the coup de grace, there is a few seconds of nonsense Beatle chatter, taped, cut into several pieces and stuck back together at random so that, as George Martin says, purchasers of the vinyl album who did not have an auto return on their record player would say "What the hell's that?" and find the curious noise going on and on ad infinitum in the coencentric run-out groove. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band must be nothing less than the most important and revealing compact disc release there can ever be.

Liner notes

That's where I had read it before. Buy the CD

 

[Jzero]

The one that supposedly sounded like "Turn Me On, Dead Man" when played backwards was Revolution #9.
Interesting about the gibberish at the end...my turntables have always had auto-return, so I never heard that part repeated hehee

 

[Parrotheader]

I first listened to the Beatles on cassette so I missed all that good stuff. Still one of my favorite albums though. I think that song also supposedly had the longest single note in history (or maybe pop music history) at the time. I had a cool book that detailed all sorts on inside details and trivia by song. Might need to dig that out again as it was a very interesting read.