The Beatles’ ‘Revolver’ reissue: 6 most shocking revelations
nypost.com“Here, There and Everywhere,” The Beatles were at their most experimental on “Revolver.”And The Beatles’ 1966 classic — considered by many to be the Fab Four’s best album ever — is getting a big splashy reissue with three special editions that will be released on Oct.
28.“ ‘Revolver’ is an album where you could listen to each song and go, ‘Oh, this is the direction they’re going to go in next.’ And be wrong every single time,” producer Giles Martin — son of legendary Beatles producer George Martin — told Rolling Stone. “The Beatles are all in the same zone, coming of age.
But it’s four individual members, with four eclectic styles, all willing to surf the same wave.”Here, we break down the six most shocking revelations about the “Revolver” reissue.Captured on his tape recorder, John Lennon’s home demo of the song — which inspired the title of the 1968 animated film “Yellow Submarine” — shows that the kiddie ditty began as an acoustic ballad. “I had no idea until I started going through the outtakes,” Martin said. “I said to Paul [McCartney], ‘I always thought this was a song that you wrote and gave to Ringo and that John was like, ‘Oh, bloody “Yellow Submarine.” ’ Not at all.
That’s like a Woody Guthrie song. But it’s beautiful in a way, where you realize that there’s so much depth behind it.”Among all the sonic tricks involved in the musical experimentation on “Revolver,” perhaps the most novel occurred when then-18-year-old engineer Geoff Emerick stuffed a sweater in Ringo Starr’s bass drum, transforming The Beatles’ sound.In making “Revolver,” the Fab Four found a refuge in the studio after all of the touring in the midst of Beatlemania.
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