A new animated video for "I'm Only Sleeping," one of the songs featured on The Beatles' new remastered edition of Revolver, just hit YouTube.
The trippy clip opens with an oil-painting image of John Lennon sleeping, which swirls into a series of dreamy, watery images, some featuring the other Beatles, their manager Brian Epstein, fighter planes dropping bombs, birds and more. The concept seems to be that everything we're seeing is part of Lennon's dream.
As the dream progresses, time seems to progress backwards: We see more swirly, oil-painting images of The Beatles running onto a stadium field for a concert, the band performing onstage, headlines trumpeting their success, the group playing at the Cavern Club in their early days, a quick glimpse of Liverpool's Penny Lane and what looks like Lennon receiving his first guitar.
The clip ends with the final image being wiped away in real life by an artist, who's apparently been painting the entire thing in his studio.
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