THE SECRET BEHIND THE BEATLES’ “WEIRDEST” SONGS? IT WASN’T JUST LSD — IT WAS JOHN CAGE. 🎻🎧 Paul McCartney reveals that some of the Fab Four’s most mind-bending moments — including the random Shakespeare snippet in I Am the Walrus — were inspired by avant-garde pioneers like John Cage, Stockhausen and Pierre Schaeffer. From tape loops stuffed in a plastic bag to lectures on electronic sound, the Beatles were quietly studying the experimental elite while topping the pop charts.
‘The King Lear in I Am the Walrus? That came from John Cage’: Paul McCartney on the Beatles’ debt to great avant-garde composers In the mid-60s, the Beatles tuned in to the world’s most audacious experimental musicians. Paul McCartney reveals how many of the Fab Four’s ‘far-out’ masterpieces were inspired by their sonic breakthroughs It … Read more