Rain (Beatles song): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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Emerick confirms Lennon's creative accident, but Martin remembers it differently:{{cquote|I was always playing around with tapes and I thought it might be fun to do something extra with John's voice. So I lifted a bit of his main vocal off the four-track, put it on another spool, turned it around and then slid it back and forth until it fitted. John was out at the time but when he came back he was amazed.<ref name="emerick1p116"/><ref name="lewisohn1p74"/>}}

The "Paperback Writer"/"Rain" single was the first release to use a new device invented by the maintenance department at [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]] called "ATOC" for "Automatic Transient Overload Control". The new device allowed the record to be cut at a louder volume, louder than any other single up to that time.<ref name="emerick1p117">Emerick (2006), p117.</ref> On the final mix of the single, [[John Lennon]] was on [[lead vocal]] and [[rhythm guitar]]. [[Paul McCartney]] was on [[backing singer|backing vocal]] as well as [[bass guitar]]. [[George Harrison]] was on backing vocal and [[lead guitar]]. Finally, [[Ringo Starr]] played [[drums]] and the [[tambourine]].<ref name="macdonald2p196"/>

==Release==