The Beatles "Revolver" Parlophone ? PMC 7009 Mono 1966 XEX 605-2/606-3
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The Beatles ? "Revolver" Parlophone ? PMC 7009 Vinyl, LP, Mono released in 1966. Dr. Robert on both record label and sleeve. Flip-back cover printed by Ernest J. Day
The vinyl has several scuffs and scrapes which cause a few crackles in quieter patches. It does play through on my Crosley portable without any hop, skip or jump. The sleeve shows minimal signs of wear apart from some slight ring-wear to the rear. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped): XEX-605-2 Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped): XEX-606-3
"Revolver" is the Beatles' seventh studio album. It was released on 5 August 1966 in the United Kingdom and three days later in the United States. The record spent 34 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, for seven of which it held the number one spot. In America, the album topped the Billboard Top LPs listings for six weeks.
Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), said that the album found the Beatles "at the peak of their powers, competing with one another because nobody else could touch them", and concluded that, "these days, "Revolver" has earned its reputation as the best album the Beatles ever made, which means the best album by anybody." In a 2007 appraisal of the band's albums, Henry Yates of Classic Rock magazine paired it with "Sgt. Pepper's" as the two "essential classics" in the Beatles' canon, and concluded: "Always the rock fraternity's favourite (and the blueprint for Noel Gallagher's career), "Revolver" still has the power of a piledriver to the head."
In the Encyclopedia of Popular Music (2006), Colin Larkin wrote that the album was wide-ranging, with Harrison's sardonic "Taxman", melancholic ballads such as "Eleanor Rigby" and "Here, There and Everywhere" by McCartney, and Lennon's drug-inspired songs such as "Tomorrow Never Knows", which "has been described as the most effective evocation of a LSD experience ever recorded". PopMatters said in a 2004 review that the album had "the individual members of the greatest band in the history of pop music peaking at the exact same time".
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