Revolver

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EW staff (15 July 2013). "10 All-Time Greatest". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. Along with the rest of the Beatles catalogue, the album was first issued on compact disc in 1987. [460] In 2009, Apple and EMI released remastered versions of the Beatles albums on CD. Revolver was also included in the box sets released at the time, The Beatles: Stereo Box Set and The Beatles in Mono Box Set. [461] Beatles' 'Revolver' judged best album". Jam!. Associated Press. 4 January 2001. Archived from the original on 13 November 2004 . Retrieved 18 April 2020. Philo, Simon (2015). British Invasion: The Crosscurrents of Musical Influence. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8108-8626-1.

While recognising it as the inspiration for the Moody Blues' 1968 album In Search of the Lost Chord, Everett says that Revolver 's most profound influence on the Beatles' contemporaries was through "its general emancipation from Western pop norms of melody, harmony, instrumentation, formal structure, rhythm, and engineering". [418] Fine, Jason, ed. (22 September 2020). "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 11. The Beatles, Revolver". rollingstone.com . Retrieved 24 September 2020. Producer Giles Martin has confirmed that The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver is the next reissue in the ongoing campaign. In Goldstein's description of London: "The sound of Revolver blares from window after window. John harmonizes with Paul in greengrocers and boutiques. George plays his sitar from cars stalled in traffic. Ringo ricochets from the dome of Saint Paul's. The Beatles are harder to avoid than even the American [tourist]." [336] Held at Wembley's Empire Pool, in north-west London, this was the last concert that the Beatles played before a paying audience in the United Kingdom. [52]

Stanley, Bob (2014). Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!: The Story of Pop Music from Bill Haley to Beyoncé. New York, NY: W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-24269-0. Kot, Greg (5 August 2016). "Why Revolver is the greatest Beatles album". BBC . Retrieved 24 June 2017. The feeling that chaos was about to erupt was palpable": Thurston Moore's memoir Sonic Life is a fascinating insider account of life-changing outsider art, and one music geek's insatiable lust for the loud Richardson, Mark (7 September 2009). "The Beatles Stereo Box/ In Mono". Pitchfork . Retrieved 19 October 2022.

ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 15 September 2013.The Beatles (The Original Studio Recordings) received the Grammy Award for Best Historical Album at the 53rd Grammys. [2] The box set was issued on vinyl in 2012. Glynn, Stephen (2013). The British Pop Music Film: The Beatles and Beyond. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-39222-9. a b c d Gilmore, Mikal (25 August 2016). "Beatles' Acid Test: How LSD Opened the Door to 'Revolver' ". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019 . Retrieved 16 February 2017.

Past Winners Search". GRAMMY.com. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014 . Retrieved 30 July 2014. Hiatt, Brian (28 July 2021). "The Beatles in Spatial Audio: Producer Giles Martin on How It All Works". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 11 September 2022. Everett, Walter (1999). The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0. In its lyrical themes, the album marks a radical departure from the Beatles' past work, as a large majority of the songs avoid the subject of love. [153] According to Reising and LeBlanc, the lyrics on this and the band's later psychedelic records capture the psychedelic culture's belief in the truth-revealing qualities of LSD over the illusions of bourgeois thinking; reject materialism in favour of Asian-inspired spirituality; and explore the overlap in meaning between a "trip" and travelling, resulting in narratives in which time and space become blurred. [154] Where the songs do present as love songs, the authors continue, love is often conveyed as a unifying force among many, rather than between two individuals, or as a "way of life". [155] Given their cultural stature, it’s easy to forget that The Beatles didn’t really know what they were doing at the time. So, while Revolver’s experimental qualities—the tape loops of “Tomorrow Never Knows,” the dislocated horn sections of “Got to Get You Into My Life”—could seem pretentious or alienating, they’re better understood as an embrace of the same unknowns that led to “Yesterday” or “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown).” Namely, can this be done? Though the band’s interest in avant-garde composers like John Cage or Luciano Berio wasn’t always obvious in their sound, it spoke to a sense of experimentation and open-mindedness that spurred them on when they could’ve easily and comfortably stayed in the same place.Hodgson, Jay (2010). Understanding Records: A Field Guide to Recording Practice. New York, NY: Continuum. ISBN 978-1-4411-5607-5. a b c d Sheffield, Rob (5 August 2016). "Celebrating 'Revolver': Beatles' First On-Purpose Masterpiece". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 24 June 2017. a b c Goldstein, Richard (27 March 2020) [25 August 1966]. "Report from Swinging London: 'Revolver' Revolution [Pop Eye: On 'Revolver']". villagevoice.com . Retrieved 28 October 2021. MacDonald deems Lennon's remark about the Beatles' "god-like status" in March 1966 to have been "fairly realistic", given the reaction to Revolver. He adds: "The album's aural invention was so masterful that it seemed to Western youth that The Beatles knew – that they had the key to current events and were somehow orchestrating them through their records." [404] MacDonald highlights "the radically subversive" message of "Tomorrow Never Knows" – exhorting listeners to empty their minds of all ego- and material-related thought – as the inauguration of a "till-then élite-preserved concept of mind-expansion into pop, simultaneously drawing attention to consciousness-enhancing drugs and the ancient religious philosophies of the Orient". [314] Author Shawn Levy writes that the album presented an alternative reality that contemporary listeners felt compelled to explore further; he describes it as "the first true drug album, not a pop record with some druggy insinuations, but an honest-to-heaven, steeped-in-the-out-there trip from the here and now into who knew where". [405] [nb 33] Grammy Hall of Fame". grammy.org. Archived from the original on 22 January 2011 . Retrieved 24 June 2017.

a b "Giles Martin on remixing The Beatles". Super Deluxe Edition. 13 October 2021 . Retrieved 11 September 2022. The release coincided with a period of public relations challenges for the band, [55] [323] the combination of which led to their decision to retire from touring following the end of their North American tour, on 29 August. [324] [nb 26] In the US, the album's release was a secondary event to the controversy surrounding the recent publication there of Cleave's interview with Lennon, in which he remarked that the Beatles had become " more popular than Jesus". [25] [328] This episode followed the unfavourable reaction to the Yesterday and Today butcher sleeve, from the press, [329] radio stations and retail outlets. [330] [nb 27] As a result, at press conferences during the tour, questions were typically focused on religious matters rather than the band's new music. [333] In addition, the group were vocal in their opposition to the Vietnam War, a stand that further redefined their public image in the US. [334] The Beatles did not attempt to perform any of the songs from Revolver during the tour. [335] All known “Red Target” US releases were pressed at Capitol Records’ Winchester (Virginia) plant, as identified by the “─◁” (rifle) symbol after the matrix runouts in the dead wax ( Side 1 - ST1-2576-W13; Side 2 - ST-2-2576-X10).Bishop, Rand (2010). The Absolute Essentials of Songwriting Success – From Song Dog to Top Dog: Making It in the Music Business. Van Nuys, CA: Alfred Music Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7390-7191-5. Exact production numbers for the "red target" Revolver album have never been officially determined, although most documented sources indicate very low productions figures that range from a couple of thousand to less than a hundred......with some sources suggesting only a handful of copies were pressed ! ....Whatever the 'actual' number, very few still exist today.....and even fewer ever turn up for sale. The Beatles' classic album Revolver will be the next of the band’s albums to be remixed and released as a boxed set. Among these meetings, Lennon participated in the filming of D.A. Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1966 tour, Eat the Document, [58] on 27 May, [59] while Shankar agreed to become Harrison's sitar teacher on 1 June. [60]