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other-way’ backwards sounded just like ‘Will-Paul-be-back-as-Superman,’ a phrase that offered further encouragement to those who were already convinced that Paul was dead. But other people heard other things. Some heard ‘the corned beef there is super, man,’ or ‘We’re parking our Kings Super van,’ while others were convinced that the original message was not ‘Never needed any other way’ but the saucier ‘Never could see Annie’s u’. These issues continue to engage Beatles fans with time on their hands. On YouTube, a film of the Sgt. Pepper LP going round and round on a turntable, first clockwise, then anti-clockwise, has attracted more than 200,000 views, and seven hundred comments, most of them arguing, with varying degrees of passion, for their own interpretation of the words, forwards and backwards, backwards and forwards, sense into noise, noise into sense.

ONE TWO THREE FOUR: THE BEATLES IN TIME by Craig Brown is published by Fourth Estate, £20.00