UK stereo version: Backwards track on "everywhere at such a speed" and "find there's no need". Of the five mixes of "I'm Only Sleeping", this version features the most extensive amount of backwards guitar. The track stops at the end of the solo and at the end of the song, starts immediately after the word "sleeping". UK mono version (6 June): Backwards track on "where at such a speed", "there's no need" and "staring at the ceiling". At the end of the song, the track starts immediately after the word "sleeping". The track fades in two bars into the solo but continues into the word "please" in "please don't spoil my day". US stereo version (20 May): Backwards track on "running everywhere at such a speed" and "till they find there's no need". It was used only on the initial pressing of the Yesterday and Today album. US rechannelled stereo version: This version was mixed from the US mono version of the song but has far more reverb. Near the end of the song the backwards track starts four beats after the last word "sleeping". The track is fully intact during the instrumental break and continues into the words "please don't" in "please don't spoil my day". US mono version (mixed on ): No backwards track during the second verse but a quick fragment is heard on the "time" in "taking my time" and "ceiling" in "lying there and staring at the ceiling". The mono and stereo versions of "I'm Only Sleeping" differ in the positioning and length of the backwards guitar parts: The US version of Revolver did not include the song as it had already been released: US Beatles releases frequently differed from the British versions. "I'm Only Sleeping" was first released on 20 June 1966 as the second track on the US album Yesterday and Today and on 5 August 1966 as the third track on Revolver, the album for which the song was originally intended. "I can still picture George hunched over his guitar for hours on end", Emerick wrote in 2006, "headphones clamped on, brows furrowed in concentration." ĭuring the break before the second bridge, the sound of a yawn can be heard, preceded by Lennon saying to McCartney, "Yawn, Paul." Release Engineer Geoff Emerick described the meticulous process as "interminable". One guitar was recorded with fuzz effects, the other without. Harrison perfected the part with the tape running backwards so that, when reversed, it would fit the dreamlike mood. The song features the then-unique sound of a reversed guitar duet played by Harrison in a five-hour late-night recording session with producer George Martin. The next day the recording was completed by Lennon, McCartney and Harrison's backing vocals. On 5 May, George Harrison wrote and recorded the double guitar part. Take 11 was chosen as the master and two days later Lennon added his lead vocals. 
Five further takes of the song were recorded but they were not used.
The recording of the song began at EMI Studios on 27 April 1966 with eleven takes of the rhythm track, comprising two acoustic guitars, bass and drums. 'I don't mind writing or reading or watching or speaking, but sex is the only physical thing I can be bothered with any more.
In a London Evening Standard article published on 4 March 1966, Maureen Cleave, a friend of Lennon, wrote: "He can sleep almost indefinitely, is probably the laziest person in England. While not on tour, Lennon would usually spend his time sleeping, reading, writing or watching television, often under the influence of drugs, and would have to be woken by McCartney for their songwriting sessions. The first draft of Lennon's lyrics for "I'm Only Sleeping", written on the back of a letter from 1966, suggests that he was writing about the joys of staying in bed rather than any drug euphoria sometimes read into the lyrics. In 2018, the music staff of Time Out London ranked "I'm Only Sleeping" at number 12 on their list of the best Beatles songs. The 1996 Anthology 2 compilation includes outtakes of the song from the Revolver sessions, including an instrumental version that features the Beatles' first use of a vibraphone. Since the standardisation of the Beatles' catalogue for its international CD release in 1987, the song has appeared on Revolver in North America. The track includes a backwards lead guitar part played by George Harrison, the first time such a technique was used on a pop recording. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon. In the United States and Canada, it was one of the three tracks that Capitol Records cut from the album and instead included on Yesterday and Today, released two months before Revolver. " I'm Only Sleeping" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1966 studio album Revolver.
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