Revolver Tribute

Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double-A-side single... more

by Robert VanDerWal

Title

Revolver Tribute

Artist

Robert VanDerWal

Medium

Mixed Media - Digital Art

Description

Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double-A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine”. The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release Rubber Soul. It has since become regarded as one of the greatest albums in popular music, with recognition centered on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds, and lyrical content.

The songs reflect the group's interest in the drug LSD, Eastern philosophy and the avant-garde, lyrically addressing themes such as death and transcendence from material concerns. With no thoughts of reproducing their new material in concert, the band made liberal use of automatic double-tracking, vari-speed, reversed tapes, close audio miking, and instruments outside of their standard live set-up. Among its innovative tracks are the psychedelic “Tomorrow Never Knows”, recorded using tape loops controlled on several machines simultaneously; "Eleanor Rigby", a meditation on loneliness featuring a string octet as its only musical backing; and “Love You Too”, a foray into. Hindustani classical music. The sessions also produced a non-album single,”Paperback Writer” backed with “Rain”.

Revolver expanded the boundaries of pop music, and its changes in studio practice were soon adopted throughout the recording industry. It advanced principles based on the counterculture of the 1960'd and inspired the development of psychedelic rock, electronic enhancement, progressive rock, and world music. Aided by the 1987 international CD release, which standardized its content to the original Parlophone 14 track version*, Revolver has surpassed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in many critics' estimation as the Beatles' best album. It was ranked first in the Colin Larkin book “All-Time Top 1000 Albums” and third in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the “500 Greatest albums of All Time”. It has been certified Platinum by the British Phohographic Industry for sales since 1994 and 5× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.

* The Capital Records release in the USA contained only 11 songs while the British Parlophone released contained 14. The songs “Doctor Robert”, “And Your Bird Can Sing”, and “I'm Only Sleeping” were omitted.

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October 26th, 2019