33 months. So short the period of time, so enormous was the creative quantum leap, the the Beatles from the innocuous Beat a joke is “She Loves You” to the Acid-taken-inspired, psychedelic, mostly the song “Tomorrow Never Knows”. On 5. August 1966, the “Fab Four released” the Album “Revolver” – a watershed in the career of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.
The four teen sensations invented himself as a brave Sound-pioneers re-discovered the possibilities of the recording Studio as a creative instrument, and to date – in the truest sense of the word – “outrageous” manner, avant-garde and Mainstream connected. From the most popular Band in the world suddenly also become the best. 50 years after publication, Revolver, has lost “” one Iota of its fascination.
“We are sure to lose some Fans. Those who we will lose, probably, will be the things to us like, which we liked even anyway, never”, said Paul McCartney shortly before the publication of the interim 6. April and 21. June 1966 in the London “Abbey Road Studios” LP played.
Not a resounding success
He proved to be right. Each of the 14 Songs on peppte the Liverpool Quartet with a new sound experiments (among other things played backwards vocal tracks and Loop-the-loops), as well as exotic instruments like the Indian Sitar – which angered many Fans of the first hour of the game! Although “Revolver” was held for seven weeks at the top of the British Charts and six weeks on the Top Position of the US charts, it was at least by Beatles standards a resounding success. Blame had a high degree of John Lennon and his mouth. “We’re more popular than Jesus”-Sager brought in the United States, conservative politicians, and newspaper makers, and representatives of the Church to the collective white glow. This Jesus-controversy, as well as in the media is circulating conspiracy theories to a death McCartney – the long-lasting “Paul Is Dead”theory – hidden when the view of the brilliance of the seventh Beatles album.
It’s A Shame. Because the nearly 35-minute work, which was originally supposed to wear the beautiful title “Fat Man And Bobby,” in addition to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” probably in most aligned and most coherent Album of the British. In addition to classics such as the formidable “Eleanor Rigby” – the first Beatles Song to listen to on the guitar and Ringos Ulknummer “Yellow Submarine” to find out a number of song pearls, which were totally wrongly charged never in the Pop-Olympus. McCartney’s evil separation song “For No One” is simply terrific, as is the the Beach Boys-inspired “Here, There And Everywhere”, the Soul song “Got To Get You Into My Life” or George Harrison’s casual “I Want To Tell You”. How far the Beatles had their “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah”-the beginnings away, the fact that not a single one of the 14 pieces ever played on a stage. “Live is not reproducible!”, the unanimous verdict was.
“With the day ‘Revolver’ appeared, has changed for all time the way plates are produced,” was the judgment of a contemporary critic. “It is a very good Album”, was Paul McCartney with typical Understatement.
The famous Cover
The Cover art by Klaus Voormann is considered to be one of the best of all time and earned him a Grammy. Empire of the German graphic designer was not but 40 pounds he received for his work. The greatest difficulty in Drawing the likeness of Harrison. To draw “George, was impossible,” said Voormann. “He was a very handsome man, but he had no real characteristics.” Unlike Lennon, with his prominent nose, or McCartney with his mobile eyebrows.
