Revolver
The Beatles’ seventh album was released in early August 1966. Following the release of Rubber Soul the group had embarked on what was to be their final UK concert tour and following a lengthy break, they returned to Abbey Road to record continually for three months. The first recordings released from these sessions, engineered by Geoff Emerick, was the single “Paperback Writer” and “Rain” and those tracks gave an indication of what was to come.
Having longer in the studio had paid off with greater creativity and experimentation and with John and Paul in fine form as writers. George also made his mark with three of his compositions appearing on a Beatles album for the first time.
Prior to the album’s release, the band had set off on a short tour of Western Germany, prior to flying to Japan then the Philippines and finally to the USA for what turned out to be their final gigs, the last of which took place on 29thAugust 1966 at Candlestick Park, San Francisco
The distinctive album sleeve design was the work of Klaus Voormann, an old friend from their Hamburg Days.
The album entered the UK chart at no. 1 where it enjoyed seven weeks in that spot out of an impressive overall run of 34 weeks.
The album released in the US was almost identical – The sleeve looked the same but the album only included 11 tracks. The reason for this was that Capitol had already released three of the songs on a collection issued in June titled “Yesterday...And Today”. Following a five week stay at # 1, this album was knocked off the top spot by “Revolver” which then spent six of its 77 week chart life in that position.
NME Friday, July 29, 1966
The latest Beatles album ‘Revolver’ certainly has new sounds and new ideas, and should cause plenty of argument among fans as to whether it is as good as or better than previous efforts. One thing seems certain to me – you’ll soon all be singing about a ‘Yellow Submarine’. This has been chosen as one ‘A’ side to be released as a 45 next week, along with the ballad ‘Eleanor Rigby’.
Facts
Wikipedia
- Name
- Revolver
- Type
- studio
- Artist
- The Beatles
- Released
- 5 August 1966
- Recorded
- 6 April – 21 June 1966 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England
- Genre
- Rock, psychedelic rock
- Length
- 35:01
- Language
- English
- Label
- Parlophone, Capitol, EMI
- Producer
- George Martin
- Reviews
- Allmusic Rated 5/5 link Blender Rated 5/5 link PopMatters Rated 5/5 link Rolling Stone Rated 5/5 2004 Georgiy Starostin Rated 10/10 link
Revolver is the seventh album by The Beatles, released on 5 August 1966. Many of the tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar-rock sound, in contrast with their previous, folk rock inspired Rubber Soul. It reached #1 on the UK chart for seven weeks and #1 on the U.S. chart for six weeks. It was released before the Beatles' last tour in August 1966, but they did not perform songs from the album live. Their reasoning for this was that many of the tracks on the album, for example "Tomorrow Never Knows", were too complex to perform with live instruments.Because some of the parts of some songs were played "backwards" through tape manipulation, and in the case of "Tomorrow Never Knows", were manufactured in the studio with tape loops.
Tracks
Comments
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collcoll13 on 23rd Jul 10:
“one of there best albums with its amazing melidoes and lyrics that we cant comprehend only those for lads can”
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collcoll13 on 23rd Jul 10:
“amazing movie and amazing album with its classic beatle rock sound crazy good i could listen to this album everywhere”
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IracheCorn on 23rd Jul 10:
“this album is great!! one of my favourites!!”
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Laura on 15th Jul 10:
“Great album!”
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Andy32 on 14th Jul 10:
“one of their best. the Beatles just created such great and powerful music. i just cant see why anyone would not like this album”
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joerockusa on 13th Jul 10:
“This was really the best album by The Beatles as a group. Best songs, best new direction, excellent engineering, it has it all. It was also the first album that George took a step forward, and showed that he was a true talent. Awesome!””
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fabibeatles on 12th Jul 10:
“Its one of the bests albums, ever. Love it, SHE SAID SHE SAID”
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fabibeatles on 12th Jul 10:
“This is one of the bests albums ever...”
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TheFabFour14 on 8th Jul 10:
“Best album in rock history!”
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The Beatles-forever on 5th Jul 10:
“I have a T-Shirt with this image. I love this album!!!”
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