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"Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of the Beatles' 1966 studio album ''Revolver'' but the first to be recorded. Credited as a Lennon–McCartney song, it was written primarily by John Lennon. The song has a vocal put through a Leslie speaker cabinet (which was normally used as a loudspeaker for a Hammond organ). Tape loops prepared by the Beatles were mixed in and out of the Indian-inspired modal backing underpinned by Ringo Starr's constant but non-standard drum pattern. It is considered one of the greatest songs of its time, with Pitchfork Media placing it at number 19 on its list of "The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s" and Rolling Stone Magazine placing it at number 18 on its list of the 100 greatest Beatles songs.〔(Staff Lists: The 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s | Features | Pitchfork )〕〔http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-beatles-songs-20110919/tomorrow-never-knows-19691231〕 ==Inspiration== 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''. 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 consuming LSD, George Harrison later stated that the idea for the lyrics came from Leary, Alpert, and Metzner's book; 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". Lennon bought the book, went home, took LSD, and followed the instructions exactly as stated in the book. The book held that the "ego death" experienced under the influence of LSD and other psychedelic drugs is essentially similar to the dying process and requires similar guidance. This is a state of being known by eastern mystics and masters as ''samādhi'' (a state of being totally aware of the present moment; a one-pointedness of mind.). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tomorrow Never Knows」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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