This is a “bonus” article and not part of the series.

A Day in the Life was previously mentioned in an article of mine because of its very unique chord progression. A Day in the Life is the last track of the album: Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or SPLHCB for short. A Day in the Life is one of John’s masterpieces during The Beatles era.

The Beatles Anthology describes how this masterpiece started and later progressed. It featured a stripped down version with John Lennon’s “Sugar Plum Fairy” Intro on guitar. John Lennon was not satisfied with how his voice sounded like; he preferred his voice double taped to produce the echo effect as heard in the track. The piano was later overdubbed along with Paul McCartney’s Bass and Ringo Starr’s Drums.

Ringo Starr’s drum fills became one his greatest drum works of all time. Phil Collins said he wanted his drums to sound like Ringo’s. George Martin and Ringo Starr didn’t have the “luxury” of time to dedicate a track to drums. Therefore all Ringo could do is to add Drum Fills.

George Martin discussed where the “orchestral orgasm” as a climax was supposed to be. If you are listening closely to this part you can hear Mal Evans counting to 24, because this part is really in beat. John Lennon and Paul McCartney wanted the orchestra to play one note for each instrument as soft as possible to play a note for each instrument as large as possible. George Martin then wrote the score and instructed the musicians to play as a solo no one should play exactly the same note.

After which Paul McCartney sings a part while John Lennon provides the sound effect of huffing and puffing. This part revolves around an E Major Chord and a few other chords.

The supposed to be final chord of E Major by piano wasn’t present during the early takes; The Beatles played the E Major chord by singing “Om” like Buddhist Monks. It turned out as a failure so George Martin thought of using a sustained hammer Piano. Geoff Emerick added the faders so everyone had to be as quiet as possible, however by listening closely you could hear the piano bench squeaking. The chord produced a sound which seems to be never ending.

The piano chord seem to be the way to show it was the end of the track but there was random gibberish hidden inside the inner groove. This part when backmasked allegedly said “Will Paul be Back as Superman?” There was also a part where only dogs could hear it because it had a frequency of 18 kHz.