REVOLVER

Nuff said . . . . . one of the greatest pop music albums of all time and regularly on my top albums of all time and rotating with Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul and Abbey Road as my favourite Beatles album. Today it is without doubt, REVOLVER!

Wow those guys policing this are FAST! All official Beatles versions I could find taken down in minutes and in which case . . . . . .here's Wilco covering the classic 
'And You Bird Can Sing' . . . . . live

On this day in music history: September 10, 1966 - “Revolver”, the seventh album by The Beatles hits #1 on the Billboard Top 200 for 6 weeks. Produced by George Martin, it is recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London from April 6 - June 21, 1966. The album marks the beginning a new phase in the bands’ career musically and artistically, and is praised as one of their greatest works. Standing in stark contrast to their previous release, the largely acoustic based “Rubber Soul”, “Revolver” sees The Beatles exploring new musical and sonic territory, with most of the songs being electric guitar based. Though others touch on the use of orchestral instruments (“Eleanor Rigby”), Indian music (“Love You To”), and psychedelia (“She Said, She Said”, “I’m Only Sleeping”, “Tomorrow Never Knows”). It spins off the double A-sided single “Yellow Submarine” (#2 Pop) and “Eleanor Rigby” (#11 Pop). Paul McCartney receives a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary (R&R) Solo Vocal Performance for “Eleanor Rigby”, and artist Klaus Voorman receives a Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts for the albums innovative cover artwork in 1967. In recognition of its ongoing musical and cultural influence, “Revolver” is inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999. The album is remastered and reissued in 2009, with the stereo version being available both individually, and as part of the stereo box set. The original mono mixes (out of print since the late 60’s, with the except of a limited UK vinyl LP reissue in 1982) is released on CD for the first time as part of “The Beatles In Mono” box set. The eleven track US edition is released in January of 2014 both individually, and as part of the “The Beatles - The US Albums” box set. And the UK mono LP is reissued as part of the mono LP box set in September of 2014. “Revolver” is certified 5x Platinum in the US by the RIAA. 

It also amuses me that I was shouted at when at school and I had started a piece of writing with the word "and" 'You CANNOT DO THAT!' and I thought for a moment the Headmistress was going to hit me (sic!) such was the incandescence of her rage. As a consequence I have begun several pieces of prose poetry and poetry proper with the word 'and' . . . . . . .  ha ha ha ha ha. . . . . .I can start a sentence with whichever word I so choose, thank you! Silly woman . . . . . it means a great deal to me and is a sign of the continuance of all poetry being connected being a sign of time and all writing being  of a piece, that what I have to say is as valid as anyone else and is a summation or continuation of all utterances . . . . . . "and your bird can sing"