where did john lennon get lyrics for the revolutionary tomorrow never knows track from revolver
Tomorrow Never Knows John Lennon wrote the song in January 1966, with lyrics adapted from the book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner, which was in turn adapted from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.[5] Although Peter Brown believed that Lennon's source for the lyrics was the Tibetan Book of the Dead itself, which, he said, Lennon had read whilst under the influence of LSD,[6] George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary, Alpert, and Metzner's book;[7] Paul McCartney confirmed this, stating that when he and Lennon visited the newly opened Indica bookshop, Lennon had been looking for a copy of The Portable Nietzsche and found a copy of The Psychedelic Experience that contained the lines: "Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream".[8]
List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones In addition to his number ones as a member of The Beatles, Paul McCartney has received an individual credit on three more ("Ebony and Ivory", "Pipes of Peace" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" charity record) and as a member of Wings ("Mull of Kintyre") as well as four more charity records ("Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid and Band Aid 20, "Let It Be" by Ferry Aid and "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" by Justice Collective), making a total of 99 weeks at number one with 25 different singles, including the biggest selling single of the 1960s, 70s and 80s ("She Loves You", "Mull of Kintyre" and "Do They Know It's Christmas?").