An article for Far Out Magazine revisits George Harrison's claim that The Beatles' 1964 single 'I Feel Fine' anticipated the psychedelic guitar sounds later made famous by Jimi Hendrix. The track opens with a burst of amplifier feedback, deliberately created by John Lennon leaning his guitar against an amp, making it one of the earliest uses of feedback as an intentional musical effect on a mainstream pop record. This matters because it complicates the image of The Beatles as a purely polished pop act, showing an experimental, garage-rock edge beneath their clean-cut image years before Hendrix arrived in Britain.

The piece notes that while other acts, such as The Rolling Stones, were using fuzz boxes for a distorted sound, Lennon's feedback was achieved live rather than through effects. Harrison later remarked that the band had done this "onstage" before John "figured out" the studio trick, joking that Lennon had effectively "invented Jimi Hendrix". The article tempers this claim, however, noting Hendrix took feedback much further, using it as a controlled and expressive part of his musical vocabulary rather than a chance studio accident, so Harrison's remark is best read as affectionate Beatles mythology rather than a literal claim of invention.