Rain ( Beatles song ) - wikipedia Rain ( Beatles song ) `` Rain '' US picture sleeve Single by the Beatles A-side `` Paperback Writer '' Released 30 May 1966 Format 7 '' Recorded 14 and 16 April 1966 EMI Studios, London Genre Psychedelic rock Length 2 : 59 Label Parlophone Capitol Songwriter ( s ) Lennon -- McCartney Producer ( s ) George Martin The Beatles UK singles chronology `` We Can Work It Out '' / `` Day Tripper '' ( 1965 ) `` Paperback Writer '' / `` Rain '' ( 1966 ) `` Eleanor Rigby '' / `` Yellow Submarine '' ( 1966 ) The Beatles US singles chronology `` Nowhere Man '' ( 1966 ) Nowhere Man 1966 `` Paperback Writer '' / `` Rain '' ( 1966 ) Paperback Writer Rain1966 `` Eleanor Rigby '' / `` Yellow Submarine '' ( 1966 ) Eleanor Rigby Yellow Submarine 1966 Music video `` Rain '' on YouTube Audio sample file help `` Rain '' is a song by the English rock band the Beatles first released in May 1966 as the B - side of the `` Paperback Writer '' single. Both songs were recorded during the sessions for the album Revolver although neither appears on that album. Written by John Lennon although credited to Lennon -- McCartney, it is noted for its slowed - down rhythm track and backwards vocals, both of which were a hint of things to come on Revolver, released two months later. The single 's release marked the first time that reversed sounds had appeared in a pop song, although the Beatles used the same technique on the Revolver track `` Tomorrow Never Knows '', released in August 1966. Three promotional films were made for the song `` Rain ''. Contents 1 Music and lyrics 2 Recording 3 Release and reception 4 Promotional films 5 Covers, samples, and media references 6 Personnel 7 Notes 8 References Music and lyrics The inspiration for `` Rain '' is agreed on by Neil Aspinall, the Beatles ' roadie, and John Lennon. They both described the band 's arrival in Sydney, Australia, marked by rain and poor weather. Lennon said, `` I 've never seen rain as hard as that, except in Tahiti '', and later explained that `` Rain '' was `` about people moaning about the weather all the time ''. Another interpretation is that the song 's `` rain '' and `` sun '' are phenomena experienced during a benign LSD trip. `` Rain '' has a simple musical structure. Set in the key of G major ( the final mix pitches it about a quarter of a semitone below this, while the backing track was taped in G sharp ), it begins with what Alan W. Pollack calls, `` a ra - ta - tat half - measure 's fanfare of solo snare drums '', followed by a guitar intro of the first chord. The verses are nine measures long, and the song is in time. Each verse is based on the G, C, and D chords ( I, IV, and V ). The refrain contains only I and IV chords, and is twelve measures long ( the repetition of a six - measure pattern ). The first two measures are the G chord. The third and fourth measures are the C chord. The third measure has the C chord in the so - called ( second ) inversion. The fifth and sixth measures return to the G chord. Pollack says the refrain seems slower than the verse, though it is at the same tempo, an illusion achieved by `` the change of beat for the first four measures from its erstwhile bounce to something more plodding and regular ''. After four verses and two refrains, a short solo for guitar and drums is played, with complete silence for one beat. Following this, the music returns accompanied by what Pollack terms `` historically significant '' reverse lyrics. Musicologist Walter Everett cites this closing section as an example of how the Beatles pioneered the `` fade - out -- fade - in coda '', a device used again by them on `` Strawberry Fields Forever '' and `` Helter Skelter '', and by Led Zeppelin on `` Thank You ''. Allan Kozinn describes McCartney 's bass as `` an ingenious counterpoint that takes him all over the fretboard... while Lennon and McCartney harmonize in fourths on a melody with a slightly Middle Eastern tinge, McCartney first points up the song 's droning character by hammering on a high G ( approached with a quick slide from the F natural just below it ), playing it steadily on the beat for twenty successive beats. '' Recording Recording began on 14 April 1966, in the same session as `` Paperback Writer '', and concluded on 16 April, with a series of overdubs before mixing on the same day. At that time, the Beatles were enthusiastic about experimenting in the studio to achieve new sounds and effects. These experiments were showcased in their seventh album, Revolver. Geoff Emerick, who was the engineer for both sessions, described one technique he used to alter the sonic texture of the track by recording the backing track `` faster than normal. '' When played back, slightly slower than the usual speed, `` the music had a radically different tonal quality. The opposite technique was used to alter the tone of Lennon 's lead vocal : it was recorded with the tape machine slowed down, making Lennon 's voice sound higher when played back. The last verse of `` Rain '' includes backwards vocals, the first use of this technique on a record. ( the hit novelty song `` They 're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha - Haaa ! ``, where side B is side A played backwards, was released later that year of 1966 ). The backwards vocals are Lennon singing the lyrics of the song : `` When the sun shines, '' `` Rain, '' and `` If the rain comes, they run and hide their heads. '' Both Lennon and producer George Martin have claimed credit for the idea ; Lennon said : `` After we 'd done the session on that particular song -- it ended at about four or five in the morning -- I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very stoned and tired, you know, not knowing what I was doing, and I just happened to put it on my own tape recorder and it came out backwards. And I liked it better. So that 's how it happened. '' Emerick confirms Lennon 's creative accident, but Martin remembers it differently : `` 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. '' Later, in 1980, John claimed : `` I got home from the studio and I was stoned out of my mind on marijuana and, as I usually do, I listened to what I 'd recorded that day. Somehow I got it on backwards and I sat there, transfixed, with the earphones on, with a big hash joint. I ran in the next day and said, ' I know what to do with it, I know... Listen to this ! ' So I made them all play it backwards. The fade is me actually singing backwards with the guitars going backwards. ( Singing backwards ) Sharethsmnowthsmeaness... ( Laughter ) That one was the gift of God, of Jah, actually, the god of marijuana, right ? So Jah gave me that one. '' Regardless of who is credited for the technique, `` from that point on, '' Emerick wrote, `` almost every overdub we did on Revolver had to be tried backwards as well as forwards. '' The `` Paperback Writer '' / `` Rain '' single was the first release to use a new device invented by the maintenance department at 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. On the final mix of the single, Lennon played a 1965 Gretsch Nashville, Paul McCartney a 1964 Rickenbacker 4001S bass, Harrison a 1964 Gibson SG, and Ringo Starr used Ludwig drums. Release and reception First released as a B - side to `` Paperback Writer '' in the United States ( Capitol 5651 ) on 30 May 1966 and in the UK on 10 June 1966, the single was later released part of a Record Store Day reissue in 2010. It later appeared on the compilations Hey Jude in the US and Rarities in the UK. It also appeared on the Past Masters CD. In the United States, the song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 9 July 1966, and remained in that position the following week. The `` Paperback Writer '' single reached number one in the UK ( for two weeks starting on 23 June 1966 ). Rolling Stone magazine ranks `` Rain '' 463rd in its list of `` The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ''. On a similar list compiled by the New York radio station Q104. 3, the song appeared at number 382. `` Rain '' is notable for Ringo Starr 's drumming, which Starr rates as his best recorded performance. Critics agreed : both Ian MacDonald and Rolling Stone described his drumming on the track as `` superb '', while Richie Unterberger of AllMusic praised his `` creative drum breaks ''. In 1984, Starr said : `` I think it 's the best out of all the records I 've ever made. ' Rain ' blows me away... I know me and I know my playing... and then there 's ' Rain '. '' Music critic Jim DeRogatis describes it as `` the Beatles ' first great psychedelic rock song ''. It has been noted for its slowed - down rhythm track and backwards vocals, both of which were a hint of things to come on Revolver, released two months later. Promotional films The Beatles created three promotional films for `` Rain '' which are considered among the early precursors of music videos. These videos, along with other Beatles videos at the time, sparked George Harrison to say during the Beatles Anthology, `` So I suppose, in a way, we invented MTV. '' The films were directed by Michael Lindsay - Hogg who worked with them earlier on the pop 1960 television programme Ready Steady Go ! One features the Beatles walking and singing in a garden and a greenhouse ( filmed 20 May 1966 at Chiswick House in London ). The other two feature the band performing on a sound stage ( filmed 19 May 1966, one in colour for Ed Sullivan and the other in black and white for the UK ). McCartney was injured in a moped accident on 26 December 1965, six months prior to the filming of `` Rain '' and closeups in the film reveal a scarred lip and a chipped tooth. McCartney 's appearance in the film played a role in the `` Paul is dead '' rumours from 1969. The Beatles ' Anthology documentary video includes a re-edit of two of these three clips, full of rhythmic fast cuts and several shots that went unused in the original videos. This creates an impression that the videos were more technically complex, fast - paced, and innovative than was the case. For example, the backwards film effects shown here are 1990s creations. Such effects were actually first deployed in the `` Strawberry Fields Forever '' promotional film of January 1967. Covers, samples, and media references U2 has played the song in whole or in part throughout many of their tours, usually during outdoor concerts when it has started to rain. Pearl Jam improvised the song into their song `` Jeremy '' during their 1992 Pinkpop Festival show and played it in full at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2012. Kula Shaker covered the song live at Reading Festival in 1996 as did Fairport Convention, featuring Dan Ar Braz, at the Cropredy Festival in 1997. Todd Rundgren has also covered the song, as has the late Dan Fogelberg, who reprised it as part of his own cover of `` Rhythm of the Rain ''. The Grateful Dead played it twenty times throughout the early 1990s. The Beatles tribute act Rain derives its name from the song. In 2016 Aloe Blacc sings it as Boris the Frog in the eponymous Beat Bugs episode 3b. Personnel John Lennon -- lead and backing vocals, rhythm guitar Paul McCartney -- backing vocals, bass George Harrison -- backing vocals, lead guitar Ringo Starr -- drums, tambourine Personnel per Ian MacDonald Notes Jump up ^ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/05/the-beatles-revolver-turns-50-a-psychedelic-masterpiece-that-rewrote-the-rules-of-rock Jump up ^ Reising & LeBlanc 2009, pp. 94, 95. ^ Jump up to : Neaverson 2009. Jump up ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 140. Jump up ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 212. Jump up ^ Revolution in the Head - MacDonald 2005, p. 196 - 7. Jump up ^ Pollack 1993. Jump up ^ Everett 2009, p. 154. Jump up ^ Allan Kozinn ( 1995 ). The Beatles. London : Phaidon. p. 143. ^ Jump up to : Lewisohn 1988, p. 74. ^ Jump up to : Fontenot 2008. Jump up ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 70. ^ Jump up to : Emerick 2006, p. 117. Jump up ^ Lewisohn 1988, p. 83. Jump up ^ Playboy Magazine & April, 1981, p. 194. Jump up ^ YouTube : Rain Finale backwards 1995. Jump up ^ The Beatles Interview Database 2007. Jump up ^ Gilliland 1969, show 37, track 4. Jump up ^ http://www.beatlesbible.com/songs/rain/ Jump up ^ `` 88 -- ' Rain ' ''. 100 Greatest Beatles Songs. Rolling Stone. ^ Jump up to : MacDonald 2005, p. 196. Jump up ^ Beatles, The -- Paperback Writer / Rain ( Vinyl ) at Discogs Jump up ^ `` The Hot 100 : July 9th 1966 ''. billboard.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017. Jump up ^ Castleman, Harry ; Podrazik, Walter J. ( 1976 ). All Together Now : The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961 -- 1975. New York, NY : Ballantine Books. p. 349. ISBN 0 - 345 - 25680 - 8. Jump up ^ Rolling Stone 2004b. Jump up ^ `` Archived copy ''. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2014. Jump up ^ Miles 1997, p. 280. Jump up ^ Unterberger 2007. Jump up ^ MacDonald 2005, p. 198. Jump up ^ Rolling Stone 2004a. Jump up ^ www.beatleswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Rain. Jump up ^ DeRogatis 2003, p. 43. Jump up ^ Sheff 2000, p. 197. Jump up ^ BBC 2008. Jump up ^ The Beatles 2000, p. 214. ^ Jump up to : Miles 1998. Jump up ^ Ritchie 2008. ^ Jump up to : Anthology DVD 2003, Episode 3, `` Rain ''. Jump up ^ Unterberger 2006, p. 320. Jump up ^ Unterberger 2006, p. 322. Jump up ^ U2gigs.com 2010. Jump up ^ http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pearl-jam/2012/seaclose-park-newport-england-53df1709.html Jump up ^ Isherwood, Charles. `` Another Long and Winding Detour, '' New York Times ( OCT. 26, 2010 ). References `` The Beatles and the Birth of the Music Video ''. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 1 March 2008. The Beatles ( 2000 ). The Beatles Anthology. San Francisco : Chronicle Books. ISBN 0 - 8118 - 2684 - 8. The Beatles ( 2003 ). The Beatles Anthology ( DVD ) format = requires url = ( help ). Apple Corps Limited. DeRogatis, Jim ( 2003 ). Turn on Your Mind : Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock. Milwaukee, WI : Hal Leonard. ISBN 978 - 0 - 634 - 05548 - 5. Emerick, Geoff ; Massey, Howard ( 2006 ). Here, There and Everywhere : My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles. New York : Penguin Books. ISBN 1 - 59240 - 179 - 1. Everett, Walter ( 2009 ). The Foundations of Rock : From `` Blue Suede Shoes '' to `` Suite : Judy Blue Eyes ''. New York, NY : Oxford University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 19 - 531024 - 5. Fontenot, Robert ( 2008 ). `` Rain ''. About.com. Retrieved 5 March 2008. Gilliland, John ( 1969 ). `` The Rubberization of Soul : The great pop music renaissance '' ( audio ). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu. Lewisohn, Mark ( 1988 ). The Beatles Recording Sessions. New York : Harmony Books. ISBN 0 - 517 - 57066 - 1. MacDonald, Ian ( 2005 ). Revolution in the Head : The Beatles ' Records and the Sixties ( Second Revised ed. ). London : Pimlico ( Rand ). ISBN 1 - 84413 - 828 - 3. Miles, Barry ( 1997 ). Paul McCartney : Many Years From Now. New York : Henry Holt and Company. ISBN 0 - 8050 - 5249 - 6. Miles, Barry ( 1998 ). The Beatles : A Diary. London : Omnibus Press. ISBN 0 - 7119 - 6315 - 0. Neaverson, Bob ( 2009 ). `` Beatles Videography ''. Archived from the original on 27 April 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009. Pollack, Alan W. ( 12 December 1993 ). `` Notes on `` Paperback Writer '' and `` Rain '' ``. Notes on... Series. `` Rain ''. The Beatles Interview Database. 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2007. `` Rain ''. Rolling Stone. 9 December 2004a. `` Rain ''. U2gigs.com. 2010. Reising, Russell ; LeBlanc, Jim ( 2009 ). `` Magical Mystery Tours, and Other Trips : Yellow submarines, newspaper taxis, and the Beatles ' psychedelic years ''. In Womack, Kenneth ( ed. ). The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles. Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978 - 0 - 521 - 68976 - 2. CS1 maint : Extra text : editors list ( link ) Ritchie, Paul ( 2008 ). `` The Beatles Rain Video ''. Archived from the original on 6 January 2008. Retrieved 27 February 2008. `` The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time ''. Rolling Stone. 9 December 2004b. Sheff, David ( 2000 ). All We Are Saying : The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono. New York : St. Martin 's Press. ISBN 0 - 312 - 25464 - 4. `` Top 3000 Songs : The Top Songs from 1966 ''. Acclaimed Music. 2007a. Retrieved 22 December 2007. `` Top Artists : The Beatles ''. Acclaimed Music. 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2007. Unterberger, Richie ( 2006 ). The Unreleased Beatles : Music & Film. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 0 - 87930 - 892 - 3. `` Rain Finale Backwards ''. YouTube. 1995. Retrieved June 2010. Check date values in : accessdate = ( help ) Unterberger, Richie ( 2007 ). `` Review of `` Rain '' ``. Allmusic. Retrieved 22 December 2007. The Beatles singles discography UK and US ( all labels ) 1963 `` Please Please Me '' / `` Ask Me Why '' `` From Me to You '' / `` Thank You Girl '' `` She Loves You '' / `` I 'll Get You '' 1964 `` Ca n't Buy Me Love '' / `` You Ca n't Do That '' `` I Feel Fine '' / `` She 's a Woman '' 1965 `` Ticket to Ride '' / `` Yes It Is '' `` Help ! '' / `` I 'm Down '' `` We Can Work It Out '' / `` Day Tripper '' 1966 `` Paperback Writer '' / `` Rain '' `` Yellow Submarine '' / `` Eleanor Rigby '' 1967 `` Penny Lane '' / `` Strawberry Fields Forever '' `` All You Need Is Love '' / `` Baby, You 're a Rich Man '' `` Hello, Goodbye '' / `` I Am the Walrus '' 1968 `` Lady Madonna '' / `` The Inner Light '' `` Hey Jude '' / `` Revolution '' 1969 `` Get Back '' / `` Do n't Let Me Down '' `` The Ballad of John and Yoko '' / `` Old Brown Shoe '' `` Something '' / `` Come Together '' 1970 `` Let It Be '' / `` You Know My Name ( Look Up the Number ) '' 1978 `` Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help from My Friends '' / `` A Day in the Life '' 1982 `` The Beatles Movie Medley '' / `` I 'm Happy Just to Dance with You '' 1995 `` Free as a Bird '' / `` Christmas Time ( Is Here Again ) '' `` Real Love '' / `` Baby 's in Black '' UK only ( Parlophone, Apple ) 1962 `` My Bonnie '' / `` The Saints '' `` Love Me Do '' / `` P.S. I Love You '' 1963 `` I Want to Hold Your Hand '' / `` This Boy '' 1964 `` Ai n't She Sweet '' / `` If You Love Me, Baby '' `` A Hard Day 's Night '' / `` Things We Said Today '' 1976 `` Yesterday '' / `` I Should Have Known Better '' `` Back in the U.S.S.R. '' / `` Twist and Shout '' US only ( Vee - Jay, Swan, Tollie, Capitol, Apple ) 1963 `` I Want to Hold Your Hand '' / `` I Saw Her Standing There '' 1964 `` Twist and Shout '' / `` There 's a Place '' `` Do You Want to Know a Secret '' / `` Thank You Girl '' `` Love Me Do '' / `` P.S. I Love You '' `` Sie liebt dich '' / `` I 'll Get You '' `` I 'll Cry Instead '' / `` I 'm Happy Just to Dance with You '' `` And I Love Her '' / `` If I Fell '' `` A Hard Day 's Night '' / `` I Should Have Known Better '' `` Matchbox '' / `` Slow Down '' 1965 `` Eight Days a Week '' / `` I Do n't Want to Spoil the Party '' `` Yesterday '' / `` Act Naturally '' 1966 `` Nowhere Man '' / `` What Goes On '' 1970 `` The Long and Winding Road '' / `` For You Blue '' 1976 `` Got to Get You into My Life '' / `` Helter Skelter '' `` Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da '' / `` Julia '' Other countries ( Odeon, Parlophone, Apple ) 1963 `` All My Loving '' / `` This Boy '' ( Canada ) 1964 `` Komm, gib mir deine Hand / Sie liebt dich '' ( Germany ) 1965 `` Rock and Roll Music '' / `` I 'm a Loser '' ( Europe, Australia ) 1966 `` Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown ) '' / `` Nowhere Man '' ( Australia ) `` Michelle '' / `` Girl '' ( Europe ) 1968 `` Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da '' / `` While My Guitar Gently Weeps '' ( Europe, Japan, Australia ) `` Ob - La - Di, Ob - La - Da '' / `` I Will '' ( Philippines ) `` Back in the U.S.S.R. '' / `` Do n't Pass Me By '' ( Sweden ) 1969 `` You 're Going to Lose That Girl '' / `` Tell Me What You See '' ( Japan ) 1970 `` Oh ! Darling '' / `` Here Comes the Sun '' ( Japan ) 1972 `` All Together Now '' / `` Hey Bulldog '' ( Europe ) 1978 `` Sgt. Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help from My Friends '' / `` Within You Without You '' ( Germany ) Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rain_(Beatles_song)&oldid=854002127 '' Categories : 1966 singles 1966 songs The Beatles songs Parlophone singles Songs about Australia Songs based on actual events Song recordings produced by George Martin Songs written by Lennon -- McCartney Songs published by Northern Songs Music videos directed by Michael Lindsay - Hogg Capitol Records singles Hidden categories : EngvarB from March 2013 Use dmy dates from March 2013 Music infoboxes with deprecated parameters Articles with hAudio microformats Pages using citations with format and no URL CS1 maint : Extra text : editors list CS1 errors : dates Good articles Talk Contents About Wikipedia Deutsch Español Français 한국어 Italiano ქართული Magyar Nederlands 日本 語 Norsk Português Русский Svenska Українська 5 more Edit links This page was last edited on 8 August 2018, at 09 : 03 ( UTC ). 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Question: beatles song rain what album is it on
Answer: Hey Jude