How The Hidden Track Faded From Recorded Music | Atlas Obscura

How The Hidden Track Faded From Recorded Music | Atlas Obscura

I wasn't stoned, but I recall being surprised when the needle finally hit the second groove on one side of Monty Python's Matching Tie and Handkerchief album.

"The record featured a concurrent groove, which made it so that it would play different music based on where you placed the needle.... 'We had these visions of stoned fans, of which there were a lot in the early '70s, having the shock of their lives when brand new material was playing on a record they had had for months,' Python's Michael Palin recalled. 'Some people thought there was an alternative version because they would hear talk of these mysterious sketches that they had never heard on their record. It drove people mad. This was precisely why we did it, of course.'"