The Making of Revolver: Inside The Beatles' Wildest Album

By 1966, The Beatles had already conquered the world — and Paul McCartney could barely muster excitement about the year ahead. So the band did something no one expected: they tore up the studio rulebook and made the most experimental album of their career. In this video, we go inside the making of Revolver — the tape loops, the backwards guitar solos, the Leslie speaker trick that turned John Lennon's voice into a chant from a mountaintop, and the young engineer, Geoff Emerick, who broke every recording rule EMI had. ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 0:45 Where The Beatles were in early 1966 2:00 Geoff Emerick and breaking the rules 3:15 Tomorrow Never Knows and the Leslie speaker 4:30 The tape loop experiments 5:45 George Harrison and Indian classical music 6:30 I'm Only Sleeping's backwards guitar solo 7:15 Eleanor Rigby's string arrangement 8:15 Artificial Double Tracking 8:45 The album cover and legacy 🔔 Subscribe to Classic Rock Chronicles for more untold stories behind the greatest rock albums ever made. #TheBeatles #Revolver #ClassicRock #BeatlesHistory #RockDocumentary