The Beatles "Revolver" Parlophone PMC 7009 XEX 605-2/606-2 2nd Press Mono 1966

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The Beatles "Revolver"  Parlophone PMC 7009  UK 2nd Press Mono Vinyl, LP,  with black/yellow/silver Parlophone labels, and housed in a front-laminated Garrod & Lofthouse flip-back sleeve. This version has the uncorrected Dr. Robert on the label and the sleeve.
The vinyl has a visible mark to side 2, but played through beautifully on my elderly stereo - no hop, skip, click or jump. Given its age, the sleeve shows minimal signs of wear, just slight creasing of the laminate to the front, and a small(1") tear at the opening on the back. "Des" has written his name almost invisibly on the back of the sleeve and on the inner sleeve. The spine is intact and legible. Matrix / Runout  Side 1 : XEX 605 - 2 GMT Matrix / Runout  Side 2 : XEX 606 - 2 GRD
"Revolver" is the Beatles' seventh studio album. It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the double A-side single "Eleanor Rigby" / "Yellow Submarine". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release "Rubber Soul". It has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds, and lyrical content.
The Beatles recorded "Revolver" after taking a three-month break at the start of 1966, and during a period when London was feted as the era's cultural capital. Regarded by some commentators as the start of the group's psychedelic period, the songs reflect their interest in the drug LSD, Eastern philosophy and the avant-garde while addressing themes such as death and transcendence of material concerns. With no plans to reproduce their new material in concert, the band made liberal use of automatic double tracking, varispeed, reversed tapes, close audio miking, and instruments outside of their standard live set-up. Among its tracks are "Tomorrow Never Knows", incorporating heavy Indian drone and a collage of tape loops; "Eleanor Rigby", a song about loneliness featuring a string octet as its only musical backing; and "Love You To", a foray into Hindustani classical music. The sessions also produced a non-album single, "Paperback Writer" backed with "Rain".
In the United Kingdom, the album's 14 tracks were gradually distributed to radio stations in the weeks before its release. In North America, "Revolver" was reduced to 11 songs by Capitol Records, with the omitted three appearing on the June 1966 LP "Yesterday and Today". The release there coincided with the Beatles' final concert tour and the controversy surrounding John Lennon's remark that the band had become "more popular than Jesus". The album topped the Record Retailer chart in the UK for seven weeks and the US Billboard Top LPs list for six weeks. Critical reaction was highly favourable in the UK but less so in the US amid the press's unease at the band's outspokenness on contemporary issues.
"Revolver" expanded the boundaries of pop music, revolutionised standard practices in studio recording, advanced principles espoused by the 1960s counterculture, and inspired the development of psychedelic rock, electronica, progressive rock and world music. The album cover, designed by Klaus Voormann, combined Aubrey Beardsley-inspired line drawing with photo collage and won the 1967 Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts. Aided by the 1987 international CD release, which standardised its content to the original Parlophone version, "Revolver" has surpassed "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in many critics' estimation as the Beatles' best album. It was ranked first in the 1998 and 2000 editions of Colin Larkin's book All Time Top 1000 Albums and third in the 2003 and 2012 editions of Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". It has been certified double platinum by the BPI and 5× platinum by the RIAA. A remixed and expanded edition of the album was released in 2022.