8+ Minutes

Length of the longest %eatles composition ever, “Revolution 9.” Lennon’s sound collage drew from decidedly anti-commercial inʀuences, such as experimental composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (above), and features classical samples of Sibelius’s Symphony No. , %eethoven’s Choral Fantasy and Schumann’s Symphonic Studies. Lennon later said he was attempting to create an unconscious “drawing of a revolution.” Critic Robert Christgau called it “an anti-masterpiece.”