Revolver: How the Beatles Re-Imagined Rock 'n' Roll - Softcover

  (Book). Acquired wisdom has always put  Sgt. Pepper  at the head of the class, but it was  Revolver  that truly        
  signaled The Beatles' sea change from a functional band to a studio-based ensemble. These changes began before         
  Rubber Soul  but came to fruition on  Revolver , which took an astonishing 300 hours to produce, far more than any     
  rock record before it. The making of  Revolver    hunkered down in Abbey Road with George Martin   is in itself a      
  great Beatles story, but would be nothing if the results weren't so impactful. More than even  Sgt. Pepper  and        
  Pet Sounds ,  Revolver  fed directly into the rock 'n' roll zeitgeist, and its influence could be heard everywhere:    
  from the psychedelic San Francisco sound (Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead); to the first wave of post-blues hard     
  rock (Sabbath, Zeppelin); through movie soundtracks and pretty much everything that followed it   including every      
  generation of guitar-based pop music and even heavy metal. More than any record before or after,  Revolver  was the    
  game-changer, and this is, finally, the detailed telling of its storied recording and enormous impact. Winner of       
  the 2013 ARSC Award for Best Research in Recorded Rock Music: Best History.