Revolver

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Before Revolver, the studio was, by and large, a place where bands went to record music they’d already worked out. After Revolver, it became a kind of instrument of its own. It wasn’t just the unprecedented amount of time The Beatles spent making it (220 hours to Rubber Soul’s 80) or their experiments with new technology; it was the way they opened their process to the concept of music being less a set of notes than a sequence of sounds—an attitude that evolved into everything from dub to shoegaze to hip-hop. Paul remembers meeting with producer George Martin before they went into the studio to play him what they’d been writing. When they got to “Tomorrow Never Knows,” Martin was curious but puzzled: there were no chord changes, no verses, no chorus. In other words, it wasn’t a song. The blueprint was in the band’s collective head, but you couldn’t make sense of it until the work was done. Hiatt, Brian (28 July 2021). "The Beatles in Spatial Audio: Producer Giles Martin on How It All Works". Rolling Stone . Retrieved 11 September 2022. On the United States Billboard Top 200 albums chart the set debuted at number 15. On the Japanese Oricon weekly album charts, it debuted at number 6, selling over 35,000 copies in its first week. [18] The set was certified triple platinum by the RIAA in April 2010. The set was also certified Diamond in Canada in March 2010. [19]

Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the third week of September 2009". Oricon (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 17 October 2012 . Retrieved 1 October 2009. In the USA, the “Revolver” and the “Yesterday…and Today” albums are the only confirmed Beatles releases with this “Red Target” label….apparently pressed only during the spring of 1971 (*in Canada, the red target label was more widely used and lasted until early 1972, making them a little more common ...yet still quite rare). I don’t think [de-mixing] is [good enough] at this moment in time. And I just think you have to have a good reason to do it. And that reason has to be a sonic improvement, there’s no point in doing it for the sake of it. Although I can’t really answer that because I haven’t really looked at that properly”. Giles MartinAmerican album certifications – The Beatles – Revolver". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved 15 September 2013. All of the Beatles' 'Remastered' Albums Enter the Top 100: Grossing 2,310 Million Yen In One Week"]. Oricon Style (in Japanese). 15 September 2009. Archived from the original on 9 March 2013 . Retrieved 28 June 2017. Kot, Greg (5 August 2016). "Why Revolver is the greatest Beatles album". BBC . Retrieved 24 June 2017.

According to MacDonald, this was the "price" the Beatles paid alongside their being appointed MBEs in September 1965. [163] Aside from the financial imposition, Harrison was alarmed that the money was being used to fund the manufacture of military weapons. [164] The Editors of Rolling Stone (2002). Harrison. New York, NY: Rolling Stone Press. ISBN 978-0-7432-3581-5. The Beatles: The Beatles In Stereo" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland. Retrieved 20 September 2023. Album Top 50 (27/09/2009)". australian-charts.com. Archived from the original on 26 October 2010 . Retrieved 28 June 2017.For however mystical Revolver can seem, squint and you hear an album mostly about ordinary life. “Eleanor Rigby,” “Doctor Robert,” the “Taxman,” the lovebirds of “Here, There and Everywhere,” and the eccentric of “I’m Only Sleeping”: these are the people in your neighborhood, and if they’re stranger than you remember, it might be because you never really looked. The Kinks were experts in this field. And John, in particular, was a fan of the Scottish singer Ivor Cutler, whose novelty songs masked a sense of surrealism that pointed toward more cosmic realms. The point isn’t just that Revolver was strange, but that it located its strangeness in places easily dismissed as familiar. So, while John borrowed the first line of “Tomorrow Never Knows” from a book connecting LSD with The Tibetan Book of the Dead, its title came from a more historically modest source: Ringo Starr. The album's title, like that of Rubber Soul, is a pun, [76] referring to both a kind of handgun and the "revolving" motion of a record as it plays on a turntable. [304] Gould views the title as a " McLuhanesque pun", since, more so than on their previous albums, the focus of Revolver appears to rotate from one Beatle to another with each song. [282] [nb 24] a b Greene, Andy (25 May 2015). "Read Previously Unknown George Harrison Letter From 1966". rollingstone.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. Riley calls Revolver the Beatles' best album but also, in the edition issued by Capitol, their "most artistically compromised". [429] The next reissue should be 1965’s Rubber Soul unless Apple opt to switch to 60th anniversary reissues for an autumn 2023 reissue of the band’s 1963 debut Please Please Me.

I spoke to Giles last year about mixing The Beatles and I specifically asked him about Revolver and whether the so-called ‘de-mixing’ technology was good enough to allow him to remix the 1966 album. His answer suggested not, but he left the door open for it to happen: a b Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Beatles Revolver". AllMusic. Archived from the original on 25 June 2017 . Retrieved 24 June 2017. Richardson, Mark (7 September 2009). "The Beatles: Stereo Box / In Mono". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 17 September 2012 . Retrieved 22 August 2011.

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The sixteen-disc collection contains the remastered stereo versions of every album in the Beatles catalogue. The first four albums ( Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale) made their CD debut in stereo, though most songs from those albums have previously appeared on CD in stereo on various compilations. Both Help! and Rubber Soul use the remixes prepared by George Martin for the original 1987 CD releases (the original 1965 stereo mixes were released on The Beatles in Mono). Magical Mystery Tour is presented in the sequence and artwork of its original North American Capitol Records album release, as opposed to the UK six-song EP. ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2009 Albums" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 15 September 2013. Australiancharts.com – The Beatles – The Beatles In Stereo". Hung Medien. Retrieved 20 September 2023. Castleman, Harry; Podrazik, Walter J. (1976). All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975. New York, NY: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-25680-8.