Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The Greatest Mystery Of Modern Times Solved

Okay, I didn't know this was a mystery... although I'm sure many of you did... and it was solved back in October... so I'm slow as well. Anyway:

Apparently the opening chord/clang of The Beatle's song "Hard Day's Night" (think about it in your mind... the first sound you hear before the opening "It's been a hard day's night... and I've been working like a dog") has never been reproduced. Nobody could find the exact match of instruments and notes that went into the original.

Well now, after 4 years of computer analysis and something called a Fournier Fourier Transform, the secret formula has been revealed, and like Fermat's last theorem, it turned out to be much more complicated than what was originally believed.

The Beatles have always been tight-lipped about the exact makeup of that mystical and fabled chord because they never wanted it to be played live again: That one time they did play it in the recording studio back in 1964, the sound of it opened a rift to the pits of hell and a demon named Yoko Ono came through.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a Fourier Transform. :)

Nancy

Jil Wrinkle said...

Oops. My medical vocabulary got in the way of what my eyes were reading and fingers were typing. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fournier's_gangrene)