The Beatles - Revolver
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description: The Beatles’ revolutionary 1966 masterpiece and one of the most important albums in popular music, expanding the possibilities of the studio, the pop song, psychedelic sound, Indian music, tape experimentation, and modern rock songwriting. Style: Psychedelic rock, pop rock, art pop, experimental rock, baroque pop, raga rock Released in 1966, Revolver is the album where The Beatles’ studio imagination fully overtook the idea of the band as a live performing unit. It stands at the turning point between the tightly crafted pop of their early years and the expansive psychedelic world of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. More concise than Pepper, stranger than Rubber Soul, and more radical than almost anything else in mainstream pop at the time, Revolver remains one of the clearest examples of a group transforming the language of popular music from within. The Beatles had already changed the 1960s several times over before Revolver. Their early singles reshaped pop songwriting and youth culture; A Hard Day’s Night and Help! showed their growing sophistication; and Rubber Soul revealed a deeper interest in folk rock, introspection, and the album as a unified artistic statement. But Revolver pushed further. It took the compact pop song and filled it with new colours, textures, instruments, recording methods, and emotional states. The result was an album that felt both immediate and futuristic. The record was made during a period when The Beatles were beginning to withdraw from the exhausting machinery of touring. This shift was crucial. No longer limited by what could be reproduced on stage, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr began to treat the studio as a creative instrument in itself. Working with producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, they used tape loops, reversed sounds, close-miked instruments, artificial double tracking, varispeed recording, compression, brass, strings, sitar, tambura, and experimental effects to create a …
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