
There is a case to be made for Revolver as the greatest album The Beatles ever made. It sounded unlike any Beatles record before or since. Their seventh studio album arrived on August 5, 1966; eight months after Rubber Soul and nine months before Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rubber Soul was the record where the Beatle boys became Beatle men…as artists anyway. It’s the point where they began writing weightier lyrics, as well as incorporating different sounds into the mix. Of course Sgt. Pepper’s legendary music was extremely ambitious, top to bottom. It changed the way we consider rock albums. Sgt. Pepper’s, concept, the cover art…every facet of it made a statement of artistic expression.
But Revolver showed the band to be at full throttle; virtually bursting with excitement, cocky confidence and creativity. This record rocked with the exuberance of what it must have felt like…
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