Revolver

Before the album Revolver, The Beatles were influenced greatly by Indian music. Later on when two band members took LSD, the band’s sound dramatically changed, and gave way to new sounds and creative ideas.

Many people say that LSD was a big influence in the music and some of the lyrical content of Revolver. Timothy Leary was the one who found this LSD experience. He felt lots of paranoia and confusion. Another factor in the non-musical elements of The Beatles’ Revolver was because John Lennon bought a copy of the book “Psychedelic Experience”

The Beatles used the studio as an instrument to immerse the listener into their songs. That being said, they wanted to give an experience of music that could not be duplicated on stage of during any other live performances.

The Beatles used effects in a few different ways on the album Revolver. For instance, you have the beginning of “Taxman”, which was the start of them recording the song in the studio. In the song “I’m Only Sleeping”, The Beatles used lots of backwards tape effects and manipulated vocals. Also in the song “Love To You”, features The Beatles’ band member Harrison- on multiple overdubbed vocals. This was one of the first songs to use this effect, thus giving the vocals a full and clean feel.

As a listener and a professional, the album Revolver makes me feel very happy. Strangely enough, the albums title being Revolver, it has some up beat tunes and some slow ones. Though it did make me feel sad at some points, this album is great, and I feel that I can connect with it very well emotionally. Revolver will always be one of my favorite albums of all time, and The Beatles I often look up to when I am writing music and producing. I have not really listened to this album in a while though because I have been trying to open myself up to different styles of music. Revolver truly is, in my opinion, the greatest album of all time.

Newman, Ray. (n.d.). The complete story of the beatles revolver (E-Book), Retrieved from http://revolverbook.co.uk/abracadabrav1.0.pdf