John Lennon wrote most of "Rain." It was his first song to get really deep, exploring themes of reality and illusion - after all, rain or shine is just a state of mind.
This was the first song to use a tape played backwards, which created the strange audio effect. John Lennon discovered the technique when he put the tape for "Tomorrow Never Knows" on the wrong way. He was stoned at the time, and producer George Martin had to convince him that using a backward recording for the entire song was a bad idea.
Ringo Starr has said this is his best drumming on a Beatles song. "I felt 'Rain' - that was another character playing drums itself," he told Yahoo Entertainment. "The way I play, I'm more of there's breaks and tom-toms, and ['Rain'] was all on the snare. So I used to say that. That drove people mad."
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