Who knows the identity of the man that says, “Number 9” in the Beatles song Revolution Number 9? Surely the man himself recognized it and remembered something about when he was recording that snip.
Everything else about the Beatles seems to have been documented, but I never did see or hear exactly who this guy was.
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Although factual, since this is about a song let’s move it to CS (from GQ).
This is what John Lennon had to say to Rolling Stone about it:
So apparently it was some engineer on a testing tape.
Yeah, Robot, I read that same account in Lennon Remembers. But that’s not a full answer. That engineer has a name, and he probably told all his friends and relatives to listen for his voice on the White Album. I am just curious.
Who is Robot?
Who’s Yehudi?