The album contained no such directive (as the band’s manager, Bill Curbishley, put it at the time, “If we were going to do that, I’d be saying, ‘Buy seven copies’”), though, during the trial, it emerged that Priest’s 1984 song ‘Love Bites’ did contain the brief backmasked lyric, “In the dead of the night, love bites.” Judas Priest were subsequently taken to court and forced to defend themselves against accusations that their music contained subliminal messages urging fans to kill themselves. Tragically, Belknap succeeded Vance, however, survived, though he sustained severe gun-shot wounds to the face and would die three years later. An otherwise unassuming release (it reached No.27 in the UK and No.173 in the US), the record became the focus of unwanted attention in 1985, after two teenage fans, James Vance and Ray Belknap, attempted suicide, believing they heard the exhortation to “do it” buried backwards in the lyrics to ‘Better By You, Better Than Me’. That same year, Judas Priest issued their fourth album, S tained Class. 1.12 into the spot-on ‘I Am The Walrus’ pastiche, you can hear the revelation: “This little piggy went to market.” Speaking of spoofs, in the interim, the loving Beatles parody group The Rutles (helmed by Eric Idle and Neil Innes), included their own backmasked message on 1978 B-side ‘Piggy In The Middle’. The Beatles would later have some fun with this on their 1995 single ‘Free As A Bird’, into whose outro they deliberately slipped the observation, “Turned out nice again.” It was, as a very much alive Paul McCartney admitted, a “spoof” message inserted “to give all those Beatles nuts something to do”. Miss him”? Cloth- (or smoke-) eared listeners also discerned the incantation, “Turn me on, dead man,” in ‘Revolution 9’. The mumbling at the end of ‘I’m So Tired’ was said to be a backmasked admittance that Paul McCartney really had passed on… After all, where else would Lennon take the opportunity to lament his bandmate’s demise with the revelation “Paul is a dead man. In the aftermath of the “Paul is dead” rumours – barking enough, but gaining an alarming amount of traction – those who had the time to sit and play entire albums in reverse claimed that “The White Album” contained further “evidence” to back up the conspiracy. Zappa was just hippie-baiting, but as stoned-age wanderers caught on to the trick, The Beatles became victims of their own innovation. “Shut your f_king mouth about the length of my hair/How would you survive/If you were alive/Sh_ty little person?” “Better look around before you say you don’t care,” the line goes. Not one to let a trend go by un-molested, Frank Zappa’s all-round psychedelic send-up We’re Only In It For The Money included the track ‘Hot Poop’, on which he took a lyric originally recorded for non-album B-side ‘Mother People’ and inserted it, backwards, into the album cut. It might not have been a “message” as such, but it certainly opened the floodgates.
A compromise was made: the end of ‘Rain’ features a snatch of the chorus refrain played in reverse. Later telling Rolling Stone that he was “stoned out of my head”, Lennon was also blown away by what he heard – and wanted to release the entire song as a backwards recording.
It was, however, all down to happenstance.Īfter taking the master tape home, John Lennon accidentally played it backwards. Recorded during the April 1966 sessions for Revolver, The Beatles’ ‘Rain’ single marks the first documented instance of a band including a backwards lyric on a song. I found another friend whom happened to have the same album, and it worked on both.Like all good innovations from the psychedelic era, backwards-messaging (or “backmasking”) was discovered at that creative intersection between technological progression and what might be politely termed as “mind-expanding ingestion”. My friends and i did this using our parents albums. It doesnt work with any other vinyl featuring the song, or any type of CD what so ever. Go buy the original non titled vinyl (zofo) and play it backwords yourself. If you really want to see how much credence lay in these claims. It is very likely that zeppelin would have done something liek this back in the day. I heard very very clearly.,"there was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad satan" (damn, im creeped out just saying that) Im sure it was nothing more than a stunt, and zeppelin didnt actually sell their souls to the devil. I agree that most backmased claims are pure shit and you can infact include any lyric you want, but stairway is very clear to me. Stairway has some of the clearest backmasked lyrics. You can put nearly any words to them and people will hear them, 'tis the power of the mind. The backwards music of Stairway to Heaven was disproved.
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