My personal favourite period of The Beatles musical recording was that late 1965 - mid 1966 period. Just listen to Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out, Rubber Soul, Paperback Writer/Rain & Revolver in one go. That’s them at their peak as a working band.
one thing is for certain... beyond the inherent talent each member brought to the table, the band had one of the finest supporting casts to bring their ideas to life.
I read a comment once ..the guy said if you look at the Beatles first 4-5 albums its basically Buddy Holly but when Rubber Soul and Revolver hit .... It blew the doors wide open.
I’m always stuck between Rubber Soul and Revolver as being my best album. It’s true that they basically are a continuation of each other and quite frankly, no band could ever do something like that but them
For me, I like Revolver better with Rubber Soul my number two album. Theres a nostalgia to me with Revolver that’s pretty hard to separate. But I think both are 10/10 albums.
The distinction that even George missed seeing/hearing between Rubber Soul and Revolver consists mainly in the lyrical content of the songs. The 1965 album was still concerned mainly with love songs and lovelorn songs; even Drive My Car and Norwegian Wood fit that model. The 1966 album is now, suddenly, stories about other people which may have nothing to do with romantic love. Eleanor Rigby, Doctor Robert, Yellow Submarine, and most other tracks on Revolver are fictive tales involving unique imaginary characters. Those that do have to do with love relationships, Love You To, Here There and Everywhere, and I Want to Tell You offer non-traditional viewpoints on the subject.
Some editors makes documentaries like they are shorts. It's just a fase though. Every decade has it's own trends in editing. Now it's key frames making videos shake and move, zooms and text. Soon that's gone and will date the videos to the era of short attention span.
Listen to 6:20 on the time bar. Paul McCartney says he used to go to these old rest homes with old people debilitating in disease, and he talked to an old lady that said during World War II she had a Crystal Radio. [ this elder woman was the impetus for McCartney to write the song Eleanor Rigby.] I don't think the younger generations today even know what a Crystal Radio is. I was building Crystal radios in 1964 just after we saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show that night in February 1964. My brother and I went to the local record store to buy the new first album Meet The Beatles And I immediately made up cardboard Mach guitars with kite string to pretend like we were lip-syncing the music. I told this story to the famous lady rock artist Aimee Mann on June 4th 2007 on NPR's Talk of the Nation which can be reviewed as they are interviewing her to have her comments that she remembers as an 8 year old discovering the Sergeant Pepper's album. By 1965 a friend of mine in my 6th grade class during the starting season of September 1965, told me his parents wanted to sell me their antique Zenith Transoceanic Shortwave Table model radio. I bought it for $8, with my berry picking money earnings from that summer. I didnt realize until I started listening, after doing my homework in the beginning of the 6th grade year in about the Autumn of 1965 when the first new TV shows were coming on that season, that I lost all interest in watching television. It was because I accidentally tuned into the BBC one night, live from London, and didn't even realize what it was until I heard them talking about the problems with America and their new hippie generation. I just thought it was the most intellectual journalism I've ever heard as an 11 year old; it made our American news media by comparison to sound banal, or diluted. I realized then that these people in England knew more about us than we do. I also want to make the distinction here that many seem to confuse, possibly. More so within the younger Generations today, that they may not know that the Beatles release of the Rubber Soul album in 1965 and then the Revolver album in 1966, contained different numbers on each album, depending whether it was released in England or the United States versions. It was also not until about 1973 that I was attending art college and I was influenced by The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's album cover so I made a mock version of a crowd say sitting in a grandstand with faces transferred from Ink prints out of newspapers and magazines that my father informed me I could accomplish this. I didn't know at the time what he was referring to was something that the famous American pop visual artist, Robert Rauschenberg, invented, and showed the ink transfer process to Andy Warhol. I also later spoke on National Public Radio on the topic of a book they had that day in the author that wrote it, The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame. The discussion was on the date of March 14th 2005 you can look up this live discussion in Google, and listen to these, as they're all archived at NPR. [*I actually held the record for calling in and speaking live on their program, for the last 7 years it was broadcast to affiliate NPR stations Across the Nation. 2005 ~ 2013. The host of the show, Neal Conan would occasionally have me speak first before his scheduled guests as they knew me as Mark the Artist and Astronomer in Portland Oregon.] I probably heard rare inside news about the Beatles, that we were not hearing within our American News. It wasn't until a few years later just recently now in these past few years that I discovered the famous Canadian media analyst, Marshall Mcluhan, who was interviewed on the BBC one night, about his latest book the Medium is the Message, discussing of the harmful effects of watching television. I probably also heard the famous British Astronomer of the Royal Astronomical Society, Patrick Moore. I soon purchased my first serious astronomy telescope with my summer work earnings of berry picking money, fir $79.95. Our parents were worried that I would no longer watch television. Our father came to my bedroom door one night and told me he wanted me to come out and watch a new program that was on this autumn in '65, and he knew I would like it because he said it was from England. it was The Avengers, with the famous British actress, Diana Rigg, playimg the part of Emma Peel and her sidekick John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee. I could not have quantified it then but I realized that the Avengers was like a hip version of a later James Bond movie, that emulated The Beatles somewhat in its pop culture of England. It wasn't until later in the year of '65 or '66 that we saw the Beatles Help movie. I didn't realize until 2000 when I met and married a Hindu woman from India, that the music in the background of The Help movie and the entire theme of the story is All About a Hindu god and the Hindus chasing The Beatles.It was then in the BBC again that they mentioned that original James Bond theme on that guitar plucking the strings, that it was copied from a ancient Hindu folk song, played on a sitar. So soon becoming an adjunct astronomy professor in a local University by age 50, in 2004, I found that I had gone full circle in my history studies of The Beatles music, marrying a Hindu wife, and all the other related things in the universe. Now at age 70, as of August 15th a couple months ago. I realized my accomplishments in life have culminated into a great new understanding, of life, and I may owe it mostly to the influence of The Beatles and British pop culture starting up my early age of 9 and a half, when I first saw them that night on The Ed Sullivan Show.
George's quote after 22:00 about Rubber Soul and Revolver being like volume 1 and volume 2 has stayed with since hearing it a while back -- but in memory it was said by Ringo for some reason. Edit: I think Ringo did say something similar but more on the cooperation in sessions.
@@WillStephensArt Yes. Have you ever heard "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon? Klaus plays the iconic bass intro for the song...so impressive that Carly murmurs "son of a gun!" when it begins.
He is so cool and is an early friend of the Beatles from the Hamburg years. He and Astrid befriended the Beatles from the beginning and were early German friends and supporters! The fact that he designed the Revolver cover and played Bass for Lennon on his solo albums is a unique and incredible contribution he made to the Beatles. He was and remains a friend to this day. A special guy!
The Beatles’ biggest creative leap forward was “Revolver”. Period! It kind of started on “Rubber Soul” and since the experiments got even wilder. But this was the start of the new Beatles, releaved of thinking about whether they would be able to play the music live. Still my all time favorite Beatles album.
Revolver is probably my favourite record...now..😅 I always felt rubber soul and revolver could have been a double album. Back in the day (90s) I would burn CDs for my mates and as an artist I created a cool Beatles cd cover and made rubber soul and revolver a double album.. for fun. My family and mates loved it. Tomorrow never knows is a masterpiece 👍🏻💯🎸 Love the Beatles.
I always thought Revolver was way better than anything that followed it. With The Beatles was excellent despite the covers while the British Help album and Rubber Soul were also outstanding. The Parlaphone release of Revolver was however their best.
Agreed. There are many reasons when Beatle CD's were first released, even in the U.S., they were the Parlophone versions. The Beatles didn't like ripping of their fans. Many of their Singles were not on their albums. They said " They already bought them. "
For some reason I never got into Sgt Pepper. I grew up in the 70s and Sgt Pepper was everyone's favorite Beatles album for decades. It was sort of an established truth.. Rubber Soul (and this one) has always stood out as their best work. Those two albums have the old, simple rock thing while also being experimental and progressive at the same time.
It would’ve been nice if they gave some more attention to She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing and Got to Get You Into My Life. They got skipped over.
Rubber soul was a great album but revolver was far better especially on parlaphone which had more cuts than the capitol album it was great that george had more songs on revolver which were fantastic
With this album, the Beatles could have quit music and still would have made the hugest impact on media in general. Yet of course, they had to make it so that we would talk of them like Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Berlin, Rogers, Hammerstein and Hart, Ellington, Monk, or Miles and Coltrane, Varese....ETC> The Mid 60s, for the Beatles and just pop music in general saw its pinnacle period a wash with a mix of genres that could never be recreated. "Rubber Soul" and its progressive volume II "Revolver" tested what could be done with an eclectic mix of classical music with pop, folk, rock, blues, jazz, raga, electronica, concrete, experimental music would be the future of American and British pop music for the 70s, 80s and 90s. They set the standard for bands that came after that kept exploring music almost for 3 whole decades before corporate interests enslaved pop music.
It was John who ruined the band, using heroin getting loopy. They should have asked Clapton to replace John. He would probably have given the band another 10-20 years.
As fresh and original as it was 58 years ago...A Masterpiece
My personal favourite period of The Beatles musical recording was that late 1965 - mid 1966 period.
Just listen to Day Tripper/We Can Work It Out, Rubber Soul, Paperback Writer/Rain & Revolver in one go.
That’s them at their peak as a working band.
I agree, plus HELP - my personal favorite song
Completely agree. 65-66 is my favourite Beatles period. Not just the amazing maturity of their music, but they also looked so damned cool! 😎
one thing is for certain... beyond the inherent talent each member brought to the table, the band had one of the finest supporting casts to bring their ideas to life.
I read a comment once ..the guy said if you look at the Beatles first 4-5 albums its basically Buddy Holly but when Rubber Soul and Revolver hit .... It blew the doors wide open.
I’m always stuck between Rubber Soul and Revolver as being my best album. It’s true that they basically are a continuation of each other and quite frankly, no band could ever do something like that but them
For me, I like Revolver better with Rubber Soul my number two album. Theres a nostalgia to me with Revolver that’s pretty hard to separate. But I think both are 10/10 albums.
I'm more inclined to Revolver.
You can hear further development on revolver and I prefer it. But both are fantastic.
I prefer Revolver but not by a wide margin and I always listen to both albums together.
gotta be revolver off the strength of tomorrow never knows alone.
The distinction that even George missed seeing/hearing between Rubber Soul and Revolver consists mainly in the lyrical content of the songs. The 1965 album was still concerned mainly with love songs and lovelorn songs; even Drive My Car and Norwegian Wood fit that model. The 1966 album is now, suddenly, stories about other people which may have nothing to do with romantic love. Eleanor Rigby, Doctor Robert, Yellow Submarine, and most other tracks on Revolver are fictive tales involving unique imaginary characters. Those that do have to do with love relationships, Love You To, Here There and Everywhere, and I Want to Tell You offer non-traditional viewpoints on the subject.
In My Life?
Great video. Thanks for posting it. I came to the Beatles later, they were just better than what was popular at the time. Good music doesn’t get old.
Thank you so much for making this video! The Beatles changed my life then, and thanks to this video, they are changing my life, once again!
Great video and well done for NOT using those annoying subtitles and visual noise that for, some unknown reason, have become so popular.
Some editors makes documentaries like they are shorts. It's just a fase though. Every decade has it's own trends in editing. Now it's key frames making videos shake and move, zooms and text. Soon that's gone and will date the videos to the era of short attention span.
Listen to 6:20 on the time bar. Paul McCartney says he used to go to these old rest homes with old people debilitating in disease, and he talked to an old lady that said during World War II she had a Crystal Radio. [ this elder woman was the impetus for McCartney to write the song Eleanor Rigby.] I don't think the younger generations today even know what a Crystal Radio is. I was building Crystal radios in 1964 just after we saw the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show that night in February 1964. My brother and I went to the local record store to buy the new first album Meet The Beatles And I immediately made up cardboard Mach guitars with kite string to pretend like we were lip-syncing the music. I told this story to the famous lady rock artist Aimee Mann on June 4th 2007 on NPR's Talk of the Nation which can be reviewed as they are interviewing her to have her comments that she remembers as an 8 year old discovering the Sergeant Pepper's album.
By 1965 a friend of mine in my 6th grade class during the starting season of September 1965, told me his parents wanted to sell me their antique Zenith Transoceanic Shortwave Table model radio. I bought it for $8, with my berry picking money earnings from that summer. I didnt realize until I started listening, after doing my homework in the beginning of the 6th grade year in about the Autumn of 1965 when the first new TV shows were coming on that season, that I lost all interest in watching television. It was because I accidentally tuned into the BBC one night, live from London, and didn't even realize what it was until I heard them talking about the problems with America and their new hippie generation. I just thought it was the most intellectual journalism I've ever heard as an 11 year old; it made our American news media by comparison to sound banal, or diluted. I realized then that these people in England knew more about us than we do.
I also want to make the distinction here that many seem to confuse, possibly. More so within the younger Generations today, that they may not know that the Beatles release of the Rubber Soul album in 1965 and then the Revolver album in 1966, contained different numbers on each album, depending whether it was released in England or the United States versions.
It was also not until about 1973 that I was attending art college and I was influenced by The Beatles Sergeant Pepper's album cover so I made a mock version of a crowd say sitting in a grandstand with faces transferred from Ink prints out of newspapers and magazines that my father informed me I could accomplish this. I didn't know at the time what he was referring to was something that the famous American pop visual artist, Robert Rauschenberg, invented, and showed the ink transfer process to Andy Warhol. I also later spoke on National Public Radio on the topic of a book they had that day in the author that wrote it, The 16th Minute of Short-lived Fame. The discussion was on the date of March 14th 2005 you can look up this live discussion in Google, and listen to these, as they're all archived at NPR. [*I actually held the record for calling in and speaking live on their program, for the last 7 years it was broadcast to affiliate NPR stations Across the Nation. 2005 ~ 2013. The host of the show, Neal Conan would occasionally have me speak first before his scheduled guests as they knew me as Mark the Artist and Astronomer in Portland Oregon.]
I probably heard rare inside news about the Beatles, that we were not hearing within our American News. It wasn't until a few years later just recently now in these past few years that I discovered the famous Canadian media analyst, Marshall Mcluhan, who was interviewed on the BBC one night, about his latest book the Medium is the Message, discussing of the harmful effects of watching television.
I probably also heard the famous British Astronomer of the Royal Astronomical Society, Patrick Moore.
I soon purchased my first serious astronomy telescope with my summer work earnings of berry picking money, fir $79.95.
Our parents were worried that I would no longer watch television. Our father came to my bedroom door one night and told me he wanted me to come out and watch a new program that was on this autumn in '65, and he knew I would like it because he said it was from England. it was The Avengers, with the famous British actress, Diana Rigg, playimg the part of Emma Peel and her sidekick John Steed, played by Patrick Macnee.
I could not have quantified it then but I realized that the Avengers was like a hip version of a later James Bond movie, that emulated The Beatles somewhat in its pop culture of England. It wasn't until later in the year of '65 or '66 that we saw the Beatles Help movie. I didn't realize until 2000 when I met and married a Hindu woman from India, that the music in the background of The Help movie and the entire theme of the story is All About a Hindu god and the Hindus chasing The Beatles.It was then in the BBC again that they mentioned that original James Bond theme on that guitar plucking the strings, that it was copied from a ancient Hindu folk song, played on a sitar.
So soon becoming an adjunct astronomy professor in a local University by age 50, in 2004, I found that I had gone full circle in my history studies of The Beatles music, marrying a Hindu wife, and all the other related things in the universe. Now at age 70, as of August 15th a couple months ago. I realized my accomplishments in life have culminated into a great new understanding, of life, and I may owe it mostly to the influence of The Beatles and British pop culture starting up my early age of 9 and a half, when I first saw them that night on The Ed Sullivan Show.
George's quote after 22:00 about Rubber Soul and Revolver being like volume 1 and volume 2 has stayed with since hearing it a while back -- but in memory it was said by Ringo for some reason.
Edit: I think Ringo did say something similar but more on the cooperation in sessions.
Revolver is an incredible album full of a diverse set of great songs and interesting sounds and lyrics. It's not just a bunch of love songs.
Loved TOMORROW Never Knows! Awesome!🎉
I'm partial to Rubber Soul but Revolver is so damn good, too.
Arguably the greatest album ever made. And, my all time favorite album cover as well.
I love Klaus Voorman.
Bro was a big influence on them even in Hamburg days! Didn’t he play bass in John’s imagine album ?
@@WillStephensArt Yes. Have you ever heard "You're So Vain" by Carly Simon? Klaus plays the iconic bass intro for the song...so impressive that Carly murmurs "son of a gun!" when it begins.
He is so cool and is an early friend of the Beatles from the Hamburg years. He and Astrid befriended the Beatles from the beginning and were early German friends and supporters! The fact that he designed the Revolver cover and played Bass for Lennon on his solo albums is a unique and incredible contribution he made to the Beatles. He was and remains a friend to this day. A special guy!
Greatest album of all time.
Totally Agree - Revolver IS The Greatest Album Of All Time
Excellent!👏🏻
It's one of the 3 that i like the most. Revolver,Sgt Pepper,and the White Album.
abbey road couldn’t make the cut?
Cover art is the Mount Rushmore of Album covers 😂😂
Yea.....Klaus Voorman!
@@ukesrule58 Klaus is a quiet saint, like George.
Why is there a pic of Paul in pain at top of his drawn head?
Very, very interesting! Thanks for doing a great job.
Rgds from Germany
I love this album, maybe even more then rubber soul now
Rubber Soul fucking great my first love but I ended up marrying Revolver Sergeants Peppers was my second wife👍🇲🇽🇺🇲
The Beatles’ biggest creative leap forward was “Revolver”. Period!
It kind of started on “Rubber Soul” and since the experiments got even wilder.
But this was the start of the new Beatles, releaved of thinking about whether they would be able to play the music live.
Still my all time favorite Beatles album.
It’s the rubber soul/revolver and pepper/Abbey rd thing for me. Like eight A side LPs
Sophie’s choice type deal
Revolver is probably my favourite record...now..😅 I always felt rubber soul and revolver could have been a double album. Back in the day (90s) I would burn CDs for my mates and as an artist I created a cool Beatles cd cover and made rubber soul and revolver a double album.. for fun. My family and mates loved it. Tomorrow never knows is a masterpiece 👍🏻💯🎸 Love the Beatles.
John: "They are entitled to not like us" 😂
2:41 Oh my god. Paul’s hair…😍😍😍I’m gonna die
Revolver is the best ❤
I always thought Revolver was way better than anything that followed it. With The Beatles was excellent despite the covers while the British Help album and Rubber Soul were also outstanding. The Parlaphone release of Revolver was however their best.
sounds like you're into early Fabs. Rubber Soul & Revolver tipped the scales into psychedelia. Abbey Road was a mind blower.
Agreed. There are many reasons when Beatle CD's were first released, even in the U.S., they were the Parlophone versions.
The Beatles didn't like ripping of their fans. Many of their Singles were not on their albums. They said " They already bought them. "
For some reason I never got into Sgt Pepper. I grew up in the 70s and Sgt Pepper was everyone's favorite Beatles album for decades. It was sort of an established truth.. Rubber Soul (and this one) has always stood out as their best work. Those two albums have the old, simple rock thing while also being experimental and progressive at the same time.
Hard to make a choice of favourite albums rubber soul or revolver
It would’ve been nice if they gave some more attention to She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing and Got to Get You Into My Life. They got skipped over.
Agree. “She Said, She Said” is definitely one of my favorites of on “Revolver.”
Uno de los buenos. Pero en el top siempre Rubber y el blanco
Awesome from dolldrum
The Beatles story of Revolver.
The story behind Revolver by the Beatles.
hands down the best band ive ever had in my life time was the beatles
I always thought the Beatles had utilized a tabla. Today I found out it was a table. Boy do I feel embarrassed.
Rubber soul was a great album but revolver was far better especially on parlaphone which had more cuts than the capitol album it was great that george had more songs on revolver which were fantastic
Revolver, rubber soul, Sergeant Pepper's and the devil compilation Blue album!
With this album, the Beatles could have quit music and still would have made the hugest impact on media in general. Yet of course, they had to make it so that we would talk of them like Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Berlin, Rogers, Hammerstein and Hart, Ellington, Monk, or Miles and Coltrane, Varese....ETC> The Mid 60s, for the Beatles and just pop music in general saw its pinnacle period a wash with a mix of genres that could never be recreated. "Rubber Soul" and its progressive volume II "Revolver" tested what could be done with an eclectic mix of classical music with pop, folk, rock, blues, jazz, raga, electronica, concrete, experimental music would be the future of American and British pop music for the 70s, 80s and 90s. They set the standard for bands that came after that kept exploring music almost for 3 whole decades before corporate interests enslaved pop music.
Sad that The Beatles broke up, then John and George died. Sad indeed. Good luck to Ringo, and his All Starr band.
It was John who ruined the band, using heroin getting loopy. They should have asked Clapton to replace John. He would probably have given the band another 10-20 years.
Revolver or Sgt Pepper for me
The "Skip" button doesn't work. Makes you listen to the whole ad 👎
Prefer the earlier material it rocked more.
Revólver 🔫 co. Produce George Martin and Klaus. whormam especial estilo 🏛️ EMI records os diamantes são eternos 😅😅😅😅
i think..... AI voices reading interviews
Hi
John was 💯 about Christianity
How's prayin to Lennon workin out for ya?
@@PaulFormentosWho said they're "worshipping" Lennon????
Earnings tax was 90%? Seriously?
Revolver is where Yoko’s positive creative contributions to the Beatles’ music began to really become evident.
John met Yoko 3 months after Revolver was released.
@@nepesilva2284 Good point, but as is usually the case, it was going on undercover for quite a while before then.
Yoko had nothing to do with any contributions simply because she had nothing to contribute.
@@tdworak no lol
@@piscesman54 she wasn’t in their lives by that point, anyway lol
Need to state - the US version of Rubber Soul was far superior to the UK release - anyone with me?
Help LoL AQUARIUS aka Robbie a 71 Ennis road Milsons Point NSW Sydney Australia Milsons Point NSW Sydney Australia okay 👍😊
Sadly Paul's final album.....
Bruh
💯
Yup, last real Beatles album, after revolver the dark forces took over
@@WillStephensArt Some dark moments on Revolver as well////
@@WillStephensArt ??!!
Revolver and Rubber Soul was when I started liking the Beatles. Before that they were just another boring Pop Rock band I couldn't care less about.
Overrated.
Whatever you say 😂😅 you must know right?
Troll of the comment section.
Congratulations 😂
Record sales would suggest otherwise.
@@paulweston285 Yes, because sales always equates to quality.
@@TheBeatlesMan96 Just giving my opinion. It's not bad; I just think it's overrated.