The backwards guitar solo belongs to "Tomorrow Never Knows.

Yes. The Beatles song with a backwards guitar solo that got banned by some radio stations is “Tomorrow Never Knows” from the 1966 album Revolver.

That backwards guitar sound isn’t actually a solo in the conventional sense — it’s a tape loop of George Harrison’s guitar playing sped up and reversed, mixed with other tape loops and John Lennon’s heavily processed vocal. The ban came from the lyrics, not the guitar trick. Lines like “Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream” made some stations nervous about drug references.

The backwards technique itself was groundbreaking. The Beatles had already used reversed sounds on Rain (released a few months earlier), but “Tomorrow Never Knows” took it further. If you’ve heard the song, you know that weird, swirling, sitar-like sound — that’s the backwards guitar.

Don’t lose sleep over the ban. The song is more mind-bending than dangerous.