Revolver: An English Rock Band

The Beatles were an English rock band in the 1960s, and they were formed in Liverpool. There was four members in the band, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. Also, Geoff Emerick took over The Beatles engineering duties. Like any band in the 60s, The Beatles recording career was frequently altered and sometimes pushed back because of their creative drive or even external factors. The most important factor is that these shifts and obstacles that The Beatles were running into, was a succession of events that allowed them to transform into a studio band. “The chain of events that ushered in the band's changing approach to studio music began before Rubber Soul, but the results didn't come into full fruition until Revolver.”1
This album was evidence that all of the members were fully invested in creating some amazing Beatle work. This album offered the band new opportunities. In a sense, Revolver is the first great Beatles album, and more unified than the earlier releases that seemed more like loose collections of singles. In the past years it has even been exceeding Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in terms of what fans consider to be their "best" album. This album was 35-minutes long, had 14-tracks, and it took the Beatles 300 hours of studio time to complete. To put that in perspective, they only spent 150 hours on Rubber Soul. “I love this album. It's a turning point not just in the Beatles' career, but music in general.”2 Everyone loves this album; I honestly didn’t come across one bad review.

1. Plagenhoef, S. (2009, September 9). Pitch Fork . Retrieved October 19, 2015, from pitchfork.com: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13434-revolver/
2. Anonymous. (2014, February 5). The Beatles . Retrieved October 19, 2015, from thebeatles.com:
The Beatles had been transformed into a group and not obligated to the expectations of their label or bosses, but fully calling the shots, recording at their own pace, and released records at a less-demanding pace. Lesser talents or a less-motivated group of people may have shrunk from the challenge, but the Beatles took the task first hand, and redefined what was expected from popular music. They’re worth remembering as well as what had been demanded or expected from them as entertainers and popular musicians. Within just a few years, they were no longer mere differences within the world of pop, they were avatars for a transformative cultural