The track-by-track liner notes are excellent written by historian, author and radio producer Kevin Howlett. Accordingly, the 100-page hardcover book included in the set goes a long way to put this album into historical perspective, with letters from Sir Paul McCartney himself as well as producer Giles Martin and a great perspective message by present day music icon Questlove (of The Roots).

There was no going back.ĭeep dive studies like this super deluxe edition boxed set and the new Stereo mix will ensure that music fans for generations to come will be able to explore and fall in love with The Beatles’ art for generations to come. But Revolver arguably legitimized the psychedelic underground and helped to put it onto the airwaves and into mainstream media for the world to see and hear. Yes, there were other psychedelic records happening in 1966 such as The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators and Jefferson Airplane Takes Off. It could be argued that it was exactly the sort of record the burgeoning psychedelic movement needed to lift it off the ground and into the popular mainstream. The more I think about it, Revolver was more than just the beginning of The Beatles’ most creative and productive musical era. Maybe there will be a sequel set someday in the future. For the average person perhaps two CDs of demos and outtakes is more than enough as it does present kind of a mini audio documentary of what went down in that fertile time period. Of course, if I have any nits to pick again it’s simply the notion that as a Beatle fan most of us would like even more of this Revolver goodness! Personally I could listen to every one of the outtakes that they have in the archives in chronological order, but that’s me talking as an obsessive hardcore Beatle fanatic.

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