It was Thomas Edison, who, whilst working on two other inventions discovered a method to reproduce sound with the invention of the gramophone in 1877 and he was the first person credited with being able to capture sound and play it back at his...
In the early 1920`s Edison published an article in the Scientific American where he speculated that it was possible to build a machine that could communicate with the dead and this was fueled by earlier rumors in an interview he gave in 1890, where he promoted the idea...
In the meantime, another individual who cited playing records backwards as a useful tool was Aleister Crowley, the infamous magician and theatrical occultist. He bought it into the public arena when he extolled his students who wished to become...
The use of playing music backwards became even simpler when the technology for recording sound was revolutionized by the 9Fritz Pfleumer's invention of the of magnetic tape for sound recording in 1928. This gave artists and producers the power...
10Playing sounds in reverse took another direction when in 1956 Attila von Szalay and Raymond Bayless started using reel to reel tape recorders to play sounds backwards and designed a machine which they claimed recorded voices from the dead...
Once this new invention became the norm for recording music, backmasking began to evolve rapidly. 12In November 1966 Paul McCartney had been involved in a traffic accident after storming out of a recording session with The Beatles. In the autumn of 1969 the group...
15During the late 70`s and early 80`s when the use of backmasking was approaching its height it was claimed that hidden messages were even being found on albums released by Christian artists and not just in popular music. An article entitled...
Church groups demanded introduction of legislation to protect their children but the only action taken was the firing of five DJ`s who had encouraged listeners to look for hidden messages in records. At a later date, in 1983, legislation was passed unanimously by...
16It was at the time when the frenzy connecting Satan with rock and roll was at its peak that David Oates who at the time, was running a privately funded rehabilitation unit for teenagers, was confronted with frightened individuals who had claimed to...
