Rubber Soul [VINYL]

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Top Compact Disks (for week ending May 30, 1987)" (PDF). Billboard. 30 May 1987. p.54 . Retrieved 26 September 2020.

a b Sheffield, Rob (4 December 2015). "50 Years of 'Rubber Soul' is 50: How the Beatles Invented the Future of Pop". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 30 March 2016 . Retrieved 31 March 2016.Most of the songs on Rubber Soul were composed soon after the Beatles' return to London following their August 1965 North American tour. [4] The album reflects the influence of their month in America. [5] Aside from setting a new attendance record when they played to over 55,000 at Shea Stadium on 15 August, the tour allowed the band to meet with Bob Dylan in New York and their longtime hero Elvis Presley in Los Angeles. [6] Although the Beatles had released their album Help! that same month, the requirement for a new album in time for Christmas was in keeping with the schedule established with EMI in 1963 by Brian Epstein, the group's manager, [7] and George Martin, their record producer. [8] The distinctive lettering was created by illustrator Charles Front, [224] who recalled that his inspiration was the album's title: "If you tap into a rubber tree then you get a sort of globule, so I started thinking of creating a shape that represented that, starting narrow and filling out." [225] The rounded letters used on the sleeve established a style that became ubiquitous in psychedelic designs [224] and, according to journalist Lisa Bachelor, "a staple of poster art for the flower power generation". [225] Release [ edit ] The Beatles performed at the Liverpool Empire during their December 1965 UK tour. The shows there marked the group's final concerts in their hometown. [226] Spencer, Neil. " Beatles For Sale: Some Product". In: Mojo Special Limited Edition: The Early Years 2002, p.132. Spitz, Bob (2005). The Beatles: The Biography. New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 1-84513-160-6.

a b Kemp, Mark (8 September 2009). "The Beatles: The Long and Winding Repertoire". Paste. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013 . Retrieved 26 October 2019. The Editors of Rolling Stone (2002). Harrison. New York, NY: Rolling Stone Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-3581-5. Fine, Jason, ed. (22 September 2020). "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time: 35. The Beatles, 'Rubber Soul' ". rollingstone.com . Retrieved 24 September 2020.According to Beatles biographer Nicholas Schaffner, Freeman's cover photo was viewed as "daringly surreal" and led some fans to write to the band's official fanzine, Beatles Monthly, alarmed that the image "made their heroes look like corpses". [217] In her study of the Beatles' contemporary audience, sociologist Candy Leonard writes that some young listeners were challenged by the band's new musical direction, but "With Rubber Soul, the Beatles came to occupy a role in fans' lives and a place in their psyches that was different from any previous fan–performer relationship." [241] Singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, who was an eleven-year-old fan at the time, [9] later recalled thinking that the band had "lost their minds". He added: "I didn't understand a word, I didn't think it was any good, and then six weeks later you couldn't live without the record. And that's good – that's when you trust the people who make music to take you somewhere you haven't been before." [242] Commercial performance [ edit ]