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John Lennon predicts the future of music

Mar 17, 2008
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In 1968, shortly after assembling the track "Revolution 9" by layering tape loops (including a found test tape of an engineer repeating "number nine") over the fadeout of the album version of "Revolution," Lennon told long-time friend Pete Shotton:

This is the music of the future. You can forget all the rest of the shit we've done - this is it! Everybody will be making this stuff one day - you don't even have to know how to play a musical instrument to do it!

Of course, later that night Lennon also told Shotton that he (Lennon) was Jesus. When he told the rest of the Beatles the next morning, "they agreed they needed time to consider this proclamation." Yes, I imagine they did.

From Beatlesongs, by William J. Dowlding