This August 5 has been the 50th anniversary of the edition of the album 'Revolver' (1966) by the Beatles, the album that marked a before and after in his discography, and for many music lovers the most outstanding of all at a creative and experimental level of his career.
'Revolver' represents the seventh studio album in the Liverpool quartet's discography, a work that can be considered as revolutionary for its time, which created a new vision of XNUMXs pop-rock and was presented as one of the first albums of the psychedelic era, which was born during the second half of the 1960s. This album showed the fab four's creative search for new sounds and compositions, which ended their first artistic stage.
His previous work, 'Rubber Soul' (1965), gave a preview of this new stage artistic that marked a creative and quality leap, as well as a more adult profile in his compositions. At this time the British band decided to withdraw from the stage since they considered it impossible to transfer the entire palette of sounds included in their recordings to live, in which they could already find arrangements of string quartets, wind instruments, oriental sounds and effects. unreleased sound.
Although 'Revolver' was one of the Beatles' most commercial albums, this work has stood out both for the quality of its content and for the variety and heterogeneity of its compositions: with powerful rock samples ('Taxman'), impeccable ballads ( 'Here, there and everywhere', 'For no one'), outstanding string arrangements ('Eleanor Rigby'), children's melodies ('Yellow submarine'), touches of soul music ('Good day sunshine') and a great contribution of psychedelic music ('I'm only sleeping', 'She said she said', 'Love you too')… For rock lovers without a doubt 'Revolver' is one of the pillars in the history of music of all time.