“She Said She Said” by The Beatles

"She Said She Said" was the last song the Beatles cut for Revolver in June 1966, the one song on the record they started and finished in one session. John Lennon wrote it with George Harrison helping him stitch together three separate fragments, and it began life as "He Said": the spark was Peter Fonda's unsettling talk while he and the Beatles were tripping on LSD together in August 1965, tangled up with Lennon's memories of childhood.

Paul McCartney walked out of the session, so Harrison may have played the bass. Either way, the track is pure acid-rock menace, Lennon's guitar and Hammond organ snarling while Ringo Starr turns in what some critics count among his finest drumming. Leonard Bernstein loved the way it slips from four beats to three and back, and Rolling Stone later traced its pull on the young San Francisco and Los Angeles scenes.

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