Re: 1st use of varispeed by The Beatles?

Thanks all for the great replies.  Just to be a completist, I reread
Ian MacDonald's book and he says that I'm Looking Through You (very
possible) and Norwegian Wood (really??) either use capos or
varispeed.  I could see ILTY using vaispeed since it's in a "non
guitar key" (Ab as opposed to G), but I always thought NW, up a whole
step, was simply using a capo (2nd fret).  Regardless, it seems that
Rain etc. is where varispeed became a real, deliberate compositional
tool.  I kind of assumed that someone had written a "this was the 1st
time ever" sort of passage.  I guess it's just another "Beatle
mystery..."

Best,

Joel

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