The Second Track

The Mistake That Made the Beatles Psychedelic: How a Broken Tape Machine Created 'Tomorrow Never Knows'

Episode Summary

In 1966, a malfunctioning tape recorder in Abbey Road Studios accidentally created the sound that would define psychedelic music. We dive into how John Lennon's fascination with the Tibetan Book of the Dead, combined with backwards loops and a serendipitous technical glitch, birthed a song that sounds like it came from another planet—and changed the trajectory of popular music forever.