First article is pretty good on the "context" of it, but says little about the "music" itself.
The guy who wrote the second article also wrote this one, which I think is the most likely explanation (ie, Rev#9 is Lennon's "pop single" version of Hymnen. The key similarity is: Stockhausen & Lennon both made their music by twisting and looping found tapes and reciting "random" words over the top. But Stocki's goes on for 2 hours, while Lennon's a more "accessible" 8 minutes.)
http://www.geocities.com/hammodotcom/beathoven/r9stock.htm
Paydirt quote:
"Lennon often used to phone me. He was particularly fond of my Hymnen and Gesang der Jünglinge, and got many things from them, for example in Strawberry Fields Forever. And his texts also made young people prick up their ears. In my eyes, John Lennon was the most important mediator between popular and serious music of this century."
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen
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