Whats backwards masking?
The Beatles began to enjoy experimenting with bits of backwards tape, as can be heard as early as their single “Rain”. What “backwards masking” refers to, however, is the alleged recording *forwards* of a reverse message, comprehensible only by playing the song *backwards* — although this is not the audiophilic definition of the term (which is a phenomenon perceived when a soft passage is followed by a loud passage of music, talk, whatever…the loud noise having a tendency to “mask” the last few seconds of what preceded it.) Some of the “Paul is Dead” clues focus on this phenomenon (in the White Album track “Revolution No. 9”, for instance). The Beatles denied placing secret messages in their backwards recordings, and said that these were only coincidences. (Although the “end bit” from the Sgt. Pepper CD, played in reverse, sounds too deliberate to be a coincindence, McCartney and George Martin both assert that it is just that, and that there was no intention to hide messages backwa
