File:The "Dream Sequence" from "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles 1967.ogg

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Description The "Dream Sequence" from "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles 1967
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The author is the Beatles; the copyright holder is EMI Records Ltd.
Source (WP:NFCC#4) The 2009 remaster of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Date of publication 20 January 1967
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To explicate with an audio sample what cannot be conveyed with prose alone:
  • The musicologist Kenneth Womack describes the end of the "dream sequence" as "the song's – indeed, the album's – most decisive moment: a sarcastic brass retort that acts as an irreverent corrective for an insensate Western world."(Womack, Kenneth (2007). Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1746-6. Page 181)
  • The musicologist Tim Riley characterises the track as a "postlude to the Pepper fantasy ... that sets all the other songs in perspective", while shattering the illusion of "Pepperland" by introducing the "parallel universe of everyday life". In addition to being treated with heavy tape echo, Lennon's vocalisations during the "dream sequence" are slowly panned right to left and back again before ending in the left field. The accompanying brass section loudly indicates the end of the sequence and the start of the fourth and final verse. (Riley, Tim (1988). Tell Me Why: The Beatles: Album By Album, Song By Song, The Sixties And After. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-394-55061-9. Pages 225, 227–228)
  • Lennon strongly disliked the sound of his own voice and he often asked for generous amounts of tape echo to be added to his vocal track in an effort to bury it deep in the mix. For "A Day in the Life", he wanted his voice to sound like Elvis Presley on "Heartbreak Hotel". Martin and Emerick obliged by adding 90 milliseconds of echo. According to Martin, Lennon's "vocal wailings" contributed to the song's "reception as a 'marijuana dream'".(Martin, George; Pearson, William (1994). Summer of love: The making of Sgt. Pepper. ISBN 978-0-333-60398-7. Pages 52–53, 156)
  • According to the musicologist Ian MacDonald, "A Day in the Life" "remains among the most penetrating and innovative artistic reflections of its era", representing the Beatles' "finest single achievement". (MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (3rd ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3. Pages 228–232)
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