The Beatles' Revolver album reshaped music with studio innovation
The Beatles' Revolver used tape loops, backwards recording and sampling. These techniques shaped decades of modern music production.
Sixty years ago, The Beatles' Revolver pushed recording studios into new territory. The album used tape loops, artificial double tracking, backwards recording and sampling.
Most of these techniques were unheard of at the time. Abbey Road Studios' engineers were startled by what producers did.
They put microphones close to instruments and amplifiers. Revolver's studio tricks meant nothing without great songs.
Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, Yellow Submarine and Tomorrow Never Knows rank among The Beatles' finest work. Revolver pointed the way toward psychedelia, Indian music and modern production.
It changed how all music would sound in years to come.
- 1966
- Year released
- Abbey Road Studios
- Studio
- Lennon, McCartney, Harrison
- Songwriters
Why it mattersA single album's technical and creative breakthroughs can reshape an entire art form. This kind of influence can last for generations.
AustraliaAustralian musicians and listeners have lived in the world Revolver created; the album's influence shaped every genre that followed.
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