Revolver : how the Beatles re-imagined rock 'n' roll /
The Beatles' experimental approach to making records had begun to surface before Rubber Soul, but it truly came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing three hundred hours to produce. More than even Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds, Revolver fed directly into the rock 'n' roll ze...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montclair, N.J. :
Backbeat Books,
2012.
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| Summary: | The Beatles' experimental approach to making records had begun to surface before Rubber Soul, but it truly came to fruition on Revolver, which took an astonishing three hundred hours to produce. More than even Sgt. Pepper and Pet Sounds, Revolver fed directly into the rock 'n' roll zeitheist, and its influence could be heard everywhere, from the psychedelic San Francisco sound (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead) to the first wave of post-blues hard rock (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin) through movie soundtracks and pretty much everything that followed it, including every generation of guitar-based pop music and even heavy metal. The making of Revolver-hunkered down in Abbey Road Studios with George Martin-is in itself a great Beatles story, but would be nothing if the results weren't so powerful. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781617130090 1617130095 |