File:The backwards guitar solo from "I'm Only Sleeping" by the Beatles 1966.ogg

The_backwards_guitar_solo_from_"I'm_Only_Sleeping"_by_the_Beatles_1966.ogg ‎(Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 18 s, 64 kbps, file size: 142 KB)

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Description	The audio sample features the backwards guitar solo from "I'm Only Sleeping" by the Beatles, 1966.
Author or copyright owner	The author is the Beatles; the copyright holder is EMI Records Ltd.
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	The 2009 remaster of Revolver (CD)
Date of publication	Late April and early May, 1966
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Revolver (Beatles album)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	To explicate with an audio sample what cannot be conveyed with prose alone: "I'm Only Sleeping" features a backwards Indian-style guitar solo that Harrison played in reverse order during the recording; Martin then reversed the tape and dubbed it into the track, achieving what the musicologist Ian MacDonald describes as "smeared crescendi" and "womblike sucking noises".(MacDonald, Ian (2005). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (3rd ed.). Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3. Page 202) In the opinion of the Beatles biographer Jonathan Gould, the backwards guitar seems to "suspend the laws of time and motion to simulate the half-coherence of the state between wakefulness and sleep".(Gould, Jonathan (2007). Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America (First Paperback ed.). Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-307-35338-2. Page 353) The musicologist Kenneth Womack credits the combination of Lennon's airy vocals, McCartney's "pensive bassline" and Harrison's "otherworldly backward guitar solo" with "establish[ing] an appropriately ethereal mood" that urges the listener to embrace the "dreamworld of sleep".(Womack, Kenneth (2007). Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. Continuum. ISBN 978-0-8264-1746-6. Page 139)
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Audio file is irreplaceable. No free alternative exists.
Not replaceable with textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1)	Prose alone would not serve the same encyclopedic purpose as prose with an accompanying audio sample.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The file is 18.024 seconds long with fades in and out, which is less than 10% of the original 3 minutes and 2 seconds.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The sample is of a reduced non-commercial quality 22050Hz and 64Kbps.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Revolver (Beatles album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_backwards_guitar_solo_from_%22I%27m_Only_Sleeping%22_by_the_Beatles_1966.oggtrue

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current	20:22, 2 June 2014		18 s (142 KB)	GabeMc (talk \| contribs)	Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard

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Revolver (Beatles album)

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Format	Bitrate	Download	Status	Encode time
MP3	177 kbps		Completed 06:16, 25 December 2017	1.0 s

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Short title	Track3
Author	Unknown Artist
Software used	Xiph.Org libVorbis I 20070622
Date and time of digitizing	2014