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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music)

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Revolver is the seventh studio album by The Beatles, recorded in the spring of 1966 and released that August through Parlophone Records in the UK and Capitol Records in the US.The album was conceived during an unusually long break in the Fab Four's schedule in early 1966.note They were supposed to film their third movie, A Talent for Loving, during this period, but the project was canceled. Their music had already started to become more sophisticated on their previous album, Rubber Soul, and they took advantage of the free time to develop their sound even further. Also, they spent the better part of three months in the studio (something that was unheard-of in The '60s), which gave them plenty of time to experiment. Revolver made George Harrison more prominent than ever by giving him three songs, including the opening track. (The most he'd ever gotten on their previous albums was two.) It was also the group's final regular studio album to have different British and American track listings on its original release.Like Sgt. Pepper, the White Album and Abbey Road, Revolver has been remixed by Giles Martin from the original tapes; the remixed version was released in October 2022.The album is the subject of two books: Abacadabra!: The Complete Story of the Beatles' ''Revolver'' (2006), an e-book by Ray Newman, and Revolver: How the Beatles Reimagined Rock 'n' Roll (2012) by Robert Rodriguez (the music writer, not the filmmaker). It also receives a lot of coverage in Steve Turner's Beatles' 66: The Revolutionary Year (2016).Hits from the album include "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby", "Got to Get You Into My Life", and "Yellow Submarine".
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: The Grammy Award-winning album cover was designed by Klaus Voormann, a German artist and musiciannote he'd just joined Manfred Mann whom the Beatles befriended in their Hamburg days. If you look closely, you can see Voormann's face and signature in George's hair, just beneath John's lips.
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Non Sequitur
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Non Sequitur: "And Your Bird Can Sing" actually makes sense if you ignore the lines that start with "and your bird is..." For example: "You tell me that you've got everything you want (And your bird can sing!), but you don't get me. You say you've seen seven wonders (And your bird is green!), but you can't see me."
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Protest Song
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Protest Song: "Taxman" was a protest against the 95% taxes on the group's income in Britain. The lines "Let me tell you how it will be, it's one for you, nineteen for me" and "Should five percent appear too small, be glad that I don't take it all" weren't jokes or empty rhetoric — in the mid-1960s, the highest tax band for income tax really was 95%. This was one of the reasons they started earning so much of their income in the United States, so they could be taxed at a lower rate.
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Villain Song
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Villain Song: "Taxman" is basically the titular character boasting that he will take 95% of your money - "one for you, nineteen for me" — and there's nothing you can do about it.
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Cool Shades
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Cool Shades: All four Beatles wear Round Hippie Shades (for the first time) on the back cover photo.
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Face on the Cover
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Face on the Cover: A cartoon portrait of the band, illustrated with smaller images of themselves interspersed throughout the picture.
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New Sound Album
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New Sound Album: Several songs have little or no precedent in The Beatles' previous music. "Eleanor Rigby" was the first Beatles song on which no Beatle played an instrument—going one step further from the string quartet on "Yesterday", the song features a string octet. They'd used a sitar on "Norwegian Wood", but "Love You To" was overtly influenced by Indian music and philosophy. "Got to Get You Into My Life", a tribute to Motown, Stax Records and Soul Music in general, marked the group's first use of a horn section, mic'ed-up extra close so that the horns dominate the mix. (Earth, Wind & Fire would later cover the song, bringing things full circle.) Meanwhile, "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the band's first excursion into Avant-Garde Music; it anticipates The White Album's "Revolution #9", as well as John's early collaborations with Yoko Ono. It was also the first use of ADT "automatic double tracking" developed by Abbey Road studio engineer Ken Townsend at the behest of John Lennon. Townsend devised a system of creating a double tracking effect without the necessity of recording another vocal by playing back the original vocal slightly out of sync through a tape delay and recording it together with the original.
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Coins for the Dead
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Coins for the Dead: Referenced in "Taxman".
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Only Sane Man
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Only Sane Man: "I'm Only Sleeping" (See lyric under Brilliant, but Lazy above).
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Ode to Intoxication
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Ode to Intoxication: Despite seeming like a song where the narrator falls head-over-heels in love with with another person, Paul McCartney says that "Got to Get You Into My Life" is "actually an ode to pot, like someone else might write an ode to chocolate or a good claret." (Beatles '66 author Steve Turner has an alternate interpretation, suggesting that it's actually about McCartney's first LSD experience.)
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Brilliant, but Lazy
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Brilliant, but Lazy: How John portrays himself in "I'm Only Sleeping".
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Heavy Sleeper
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Heavy Sleeper: "I'm Only Sleeping" is about this.
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Agony of the Feet
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Agony of the Feet: Paul kinda sorta mentions this in "Good Day Sunshine."
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Uncommon Time
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Uncommon Time: "She Said She Said" switches liberally between 3/4 and 4/4, with Ringo's jittery drumming adding to the song's unsteady feel.
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The End of the Beginning
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The End of the Beginning: The final line of "Tomorrow Never Knows": "So play the game Existence to the end/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning/ Of the beginning..."
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And Then I Said
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And Then I Said: "She Said, She Said"
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Pun-Based Title
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Pun-Based Title: The album's title is a wordplay on the type of handgun and the revolving motion of a record as it spins on the turntable. Nowadays though, this one might take a second to figure out. Before settling on Revolver, the group went through several other Working Titles for the album. One (probably facetious) suggestion from Ringo was After Geography, a play on The Rolling Stones' Aftermath (Album) from earlier that year.
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Lonely Funeral
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Lonely Funeral: "Eleanor Rigby". The lonely title character dreams of someday being married, but ultimately dies, her funeral service attended only by the equally lonely Father McKenzie. The lyrics specifically state that "nobody came" to her funeral.
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Malaproper
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Malaproper: The title "Tomorrow Never Knows" came from one of Ringo's weird sentences, just like A Hard Day's Night.
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Call-and-Response Song
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Call-and-Response Song: Played With. The backing vocals in the bridge provide the call and George provides the response in "Taxman".
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Incredibly Long Note
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Incredibly Long Note: At the end of "I Want To Tell You" George, John and Paul hold the word "time" well into the fade out.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending:
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Sampling
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Sampling: Tape loops used in "Tomorrow Never Knows" include: A "laughing" voice, often assumed to be Paul McCartney and played at double-speed (the "seagull" sound) An orchestral chord of B flat major (from a Sibelius symphony) A fast electric guitar phrase in C major, reversed and played at double-speed Another guitar phrase with heavy tape echo, with a B flat chord provided either by guitar, organ or possibly a Mellotron Mk II A sitar-like descending scalar phrase played on an electric guitar, reversed and played at double-speed
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Melismatic Vocals
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Melismatic Vocals: George does this at the end of the verses of "Love You To" (giving his vocal a vaguely Asian chanting vibe) and Paul pulls off an impressive example on the word "time" in his harmony vocal at the very end of "I Want to Tell You".
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Fake-Out Fade-Out
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Fake-Out Fade-Out: "I'm Only Sleeping".
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Gratuitous Panning
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Gratuitous Panning: "Taxman" used the "I Feel Free" method, bundling everything on the left channel, leaving tambourine and cowbell on the right, and filling the center with vocals. "Yellow Submarine" throws the vocals on the right channel, and the rest on the left. The sound fx stay on the center.
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Record Producer
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Record Producer: George Martin, as usual.
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Echoing Acoustics
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Echoing Acoustics: "Tomorrow Never Knows", as Lennon wanted to sound "like a hundred chanting Tibetan monks".
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Working Title
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Before settling on Revolver, the group went through several other Working Titles for the album. One (probably facetious) suggestion from Ringo was After Geography, a play on The Rolling Stones' Aftermath (Album) from earlier that year.
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Cannot Spit It Out
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Cannot Spit It Out: The subject of "I Want to Tell You".
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Non-Appearing Title
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Non-Appearing Title: The album title does not appear in any of the lyrics. "Love You To"note although the lyric "I'll make love to you" comes close and "Tomorrow Never Knows" also don't get a mention in the songs themselves.
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Anti-Love Song
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Anti-Love Song: What makes "For No One" heartbreaking is that it's about the true opposite of love. The couple break up due to eventual indifference.
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Real Life Writes the Plot
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Several songs. "She Said She Said" is based on a famous incident from 1965. The Beatles note along with their entourage and at least two members of The Byrds were hanging out with Peter Fonda, and all except Paul were tripping on LSD. When a nervous George said "I feel like I'm dying", Fonda tried to reassure him by saying "I know what it's like to be dead"; he went on to tell the band that he'd almost died from an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound as a child, and death was nothing to worry about. John replied, "Who put all that shit in your head? You're making me feel like I've never been born". He based the song on a Gender Flipped, Bowdlerized version of this conversation. "Got to Get You into My Life" and "For No One" by Paul are based on his experience of pot and his failing relationship with his then-girlfriend, Jane Asher, respectively. "Taxman" by George attacks the progressive tax laws introduced by the Wilson Government, which despite their seemingly best effort failed to stop George from becoming a millionaire. It bears mentioning that 95% was the marginal tax rate; that is, all of George's income before he reached the 95% threshold was taxed at a lower value. As well as mentioning Harold Wilson himself, the song also mentions his rival Edward Heath. "I'm Only Sleeping", based on John's laziness. There actually is a gravestone on St. Peter's Church in Liverpool with the name Eleanor Rigby (1898-1939) on it! Paul has commented that he might have seen the gravestone during his youth and subconsciously remembered it, for he didn't deliberately name the character in the song after her.
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BreakUpSong
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Break Up Song: "For No One" is the end of "A love that should have lasted years".
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"I Want" Song
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"I Want" Song: "I Want to Tell You".
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_8338de89
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type
World Music
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comment
World Music: George Harrison plays sitar during "Love You To", an instrument he learned to master thanks to Ravi Shankar. He played it earlier during "Norwegian Wood" on Rubber Soul (1965) and would play it again on "Within You Without You" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).
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type
Studio Chatter
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comment
Studio Chatter: At the beginning of "Taxman", George slowly counts "one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four" on the right channel against a backdrop of studio background noises, before Paul's much faster "one, two, three, four!" on the left leads into the song itself. One can hear John saying, "Yawn, Paul" before someone, supposedly Paul, yawns in "I'm Only Sleeping". John, very quietly, repeats "She feels good" after Paul sings that phrase in "Good Day Sunshine".
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_8a24c94e
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type
Spoken Word in Music
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comment
Spoken Word in Music: "Yellow Submarine" has some speech and submarine sounds in it: "Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!"
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_8c00118f
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type
Rhyming with Itself
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comment
Rhyming with Itself: In "Got to Get You Into My Life". 'There' is rhymed with 'there', 'you' with 'you' and 'life' with 'life'. From another perspective, it rhymes "find there" with "mind there" and "hold you" with "told you."
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Truck Driver's Gear Change
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Truck Driver's Gear Change: Right at the end of "Good Day Sunshine".
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_92d6af50
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Second-Person Narration
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Second-Person Narration: "For No One" uses it.
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_9af977f4
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type
Intimidating Revenue Service
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comment
Intimidating Revenue Service: "Taxman", inspired by how the British government wanted to take too much out of George's income; at the time, the Beatles were being taxed at a marginal income tax rate of 95% (a fairly common marginal rate for the top tax bracket in European countries at the time, and not the highest—some Nordics applied 99% income tax brackets). This is noted in the lyrics ("There's one for you/Nineteen for me").
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One-Man Song
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comment
One-Man Song: "Taxman".
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What Are Records?
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The album's title is a wordplay on the type of handgun and the revolving motion of a record as it spins on the turntable. Nowadays though, this one might take a second to figure out.
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Silly Love Songs
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Silly Love Songs: The Beatles were turning away from this trope, but Paul provides two straight examples, "Here, There and Everywhere" and "Good Day Sunshine", plus an ostensible one in "Got to Get You Into My Life" (though he's famously claimed that it's actually a disguised ode to marijuana).
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_a040ed2e
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Ascended Extra
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Ascended Extra: "Yellow Submarine". Originally just a really beloved song on Revolver, it would eventually go on to spawn its own album and movie.
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_a65288e2
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Boy Meets Girl
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_ab5677c1
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Boy Meets Girl: One could interpret "Eleanor Rigby" in this light as well—although in this particular case, both parties are probably up in years. Still tragic, though...
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Take That!
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Take That!: "And Your Bird Can Sing" is frequently interpreted as a swipe at Mick Jagger, whose "bird" at the time was singer Marianne Faithfull.
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_b53077b3
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Character Title
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comment
Character Title: "Taxman", "Eleanor Rigby" and "Doctor Robert".
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_c23525d4
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Shout-Out
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_c75df49a
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Shout-Out: "Taxman" provides a shout-out to British politicians Edward Heath and Harold Wilson — at the time, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.
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Protagonist Title
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Protagonist Title: "Eleanor Rigby" about a poor woman who dies alone and forgotten.
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Deliberately Monochrome
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Deliberately Monochrome: The album cover.
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Broken Bird
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Broken Bird: Mentioned in "And Your Bird Can Sing".
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_d08595d3
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: The album itself and "Taxman".
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Mundane Made Awesome
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Mundane Made Awesome: "Taxman" (about the irritation of paying taxes) and "I'm Only Sleeping" (about sleeping).
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_d148b019
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Dr. Feelgood
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_d8979db6
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Dr. Feelgood: "Doctor Robert", apparently based on a real-life medical drug peddler.
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Broken Record
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Broken Record: "Tomorrow Never Knows".
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Word Salad Lyrics
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Word Salad Lyrics: The enigmatic lyrics of "And Your Bird Can Sing" are very open to interpretation. Jonathan Gould (author of Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain and America) theorizes that John intended them as a Take That! to Frank Sinatra for Ol' Blue Eyes' criticism of The Beatles and rock music in general.note Sinatra underwent some evolution on this, covering the Beatles' "Something" and striking up a friendship with David Bowie in the mid '70s. Musicologist Alan Pollack instead suggested they reflect a kind of mid-life crisis John was undergoing at the time, also hinted at in his infamous Maureen Cleave interview. Another theory is that the song is a Take That! to The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger and the "bird"note "Bird" being English slang for a young woman at the time in the song referred to his then girlfriend, Marianne Faithfull. As noted in Non Sequitur above, however, the main source of the Word Salad is in the lines that start with "and your bird...", without which the song would be a pretty straightforward condemnation of Pride and materialism.
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_e18675e6
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type
Design Student's Orgasm
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_e40f6792
comment
Design Student's Orgasm: The album cover, designed by Klaus Voormann, who would later also design the cover of The Beatles Anthology. This YouTube video shows the original photos that were Voormann's sources for the collage.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In common with all the previous Beatles' albums there's a photo of the band on the cover, but for the first time, they aren't looking at the camera, but at each other. (Specifically, the other three are all looking at Ringo, who's looking past the camera and wearing sunglasses.)
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_e83f211c
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In the Style of
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comment
In the Style of: "Good Day Sunshine" is done in the style of The Lovin' Spoonful, in particular their song "Daydream". Paul's guitar solo in "Taxman" is partly blues-rock and partly in the style of classical Indian music.
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Unbuilt Trope
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Unbuilt Trope: While it wasn't the intention, "Tomorrow Never Knows" today sounds like an early attempt at Industrial, particularly when the Leslie speaker-filtered vocal starts.
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_f0e85546
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_f275ee5f
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Dead Sparks
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_f275ee5f
comment
Dead Sparks: Paul's "For No One" is all about this.
 Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_f275ee5f
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Revolver (Beatles Album) (Music) / int_f275ee5f
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Taxman Takes the Winnings
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Taxman Takes the Winnings: "Taxman" is a critique of taxation - in particular, the British government’s then-highest income tax band (95%). Slightly undercut in that it's a complaint about a level of tax that only the very, very rich actually paid, so it's more of a rich man's moan about taxes than a reasoned critique of taxation in general.
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Never Trust a Title
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Never Trust a Title: The title for "Love You To" makes it seem like it'll sound similar to their earlier worknote Like "Love Me Do", "She Loves You", "Please Please Me", etc.. Then you actually play the song and BAM! Indian Sitar!
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"I Want" Song / int_770040a9
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Tagline / int_770040a9
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