Regarded by many as The Beatles best album 'Revolver' was the last real Beatles album a record where all four Beatles worked on most of the tracks as a four piece. 'Revolver' marks the end of Beatlemania (the band had stopped playing live gigs and were focussing on recording) and the tracks on 'Revolver' show the craft that went into creating a record as a work of aural art.
From the opening 'Taxman' a first for Harrison, given the lead track on an album, to the closing 'Tomorrow Never Knows', the album delights and surprises the listener from track to track. 'Eleanor Rigby' is full of pathos, touching on loneliness, infatuation and death. 'Yellow Submarine' takes us all back to our childhood, where magic and mayhem colour our play. Harrison gives us the first of his Indian inspired songs with 'Love You To' and Lennon gives us the dreamy 'I'm Only Sleeping'.
Perhaps the stand out track is Lennon's 'Tomorrow Never Knows', inspired by the Tibetan Book of The Dead which was being used by Timothy Leary as an accompaniment to his 'experiments' with LSD. Lennon wanted the vocal to sound 'other-worldly' like an Iman's call to prayer from a minaret so the vocal was fed through a revolving Leslie speaker (used mainly by Hammond organ players). The song was underpinned with a pounding beat by Ringo and overlaid with strange synth like sounds that gave the song a completely supernatural feel. Pop music had never heard anything like 'Tomorrow Never Knows'. The Beatles had rewritten the book with the release of 'Revolver'.
"Tomorrow Never Knows" is the final track of The Beatles' 1966 studio album Revolver but the first to be recorded. Credited as a Lennon--McCartney song, it w...
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