Yet, the mystery of the backmasked-technique still remains. The album contained many other songs that contained subliminal messages, and criminals have claimed to have committed crimes because of such subliminal messages. Angus Young dismissed the claims by saying, “You didn’t need to play backwards, because we never hid (the messages).” To this day, ‘Highway to Hell’ is loved by the fans.
Claims have been made that the song, when reversed, contained messages like ‘I’m the law’, ‘My name is Lucifer’ and ‘She belongs in hell’. However, the song meant different to different people. The song is about a person’s life on the road, a person who tours constantly. Since then, many artists have covered it and it has remained on top of the charts for a long time. The opening track of AC/DC’s 1979 album, ‘Highway to Hell’ was released as a single. Even then, the ‘co-incidental’ backmasking incident popularised the idea that backwards masking could really be used to hide secret messages in music tracks. This was because the song, when played backwards contained the messages ‘Turn me on, dead man’ and ‘Let me out’. The Beatles continuously insisted that they never planted clues in order to fuel the hoax about McCartney’s death. As the rumours of Paul McCartney’s death surfaced in 1969, the song acted as an evidence to support the entire ‘Paul is Dead’ theory. Revolution 9, the experimental song from The Beatles’ ‘The White Album’, is one of the most controversial case of backmasking. Fans and critics, however, still believe that the backmasked messages were the real deal. The claims were dismissed by Eddie Kramer, Led Zeppelin’s Audio Engineer, as ‘totally and utterly ridiculous’. The one whose little path would make me sad, whose power is Satan. He will give those with him 666. There was a little tool-shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan.’ He claimed that when played backwards, the song contained messages such as ‘Here’s to my sweet Satan.
In 1982, Paul Crouch, the host on a program from the Trinity Broadcasting Network, claimed that Led Zeppelin’s iconic song ‘Stairway to Heaven’ contained satanic messages throughout the song, especially in the middle section. It might just change the way you listen to your favorite tracks! 1. Some call it the work of Satan, some say it’s just a publicity stunt, but we say it’s intriguing! While some artists do it to censor explicit words for radio edits, some legendary artists have been ‘accused’ of using the technique to lure the devil into buying their CDs! It is the technique of masking secret messages on a song which can only be heard upon phonetic reversal, i.e., while playing the song backwards. Here is a new word for your dictionary of hallucinations – backmasking! It means exactly what it sounds like, but with a little intention and a little bit of delusion attached to it.
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