BEATLES ''REVOLVER'' ORIGINAL THE EARLIEST RAREST 1ST UK PRESS!!!! YELLOW AND BLACK PARLOPHONE LABEL (MONO)  UK PRESS MATRIX XEX 605-2 XEX 606-1 PLAYS THE WRONG MIX OF TOMMORROW NEVER KNOWS MIX 11 (MEGA MEGA RARETY)1966. ORIGINAL AND AWESOME CONDITION GARROD & LOFTHOUSE FLIPBACK COVER)    WITH THE RARE MISS PRINT ''DR.ROBERT'' ON THE COVER AND THE VINYL!!!!!!(LATER CORRECTED ''DOCTOR ROBERT'' THIS IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE RAREST BEATLES PRESSINGS TO FIND !!!! K.T. TAX STAMPER!

please note! this is listed for its collectability rather than its condition, having said that it is in my opinion still avery playable and of coarse very collectable album, CERTAINLY ONE OF THE RAREST AND HARDEST BEATLES RECORDS TO EVER FIND!! ORIGINAL!!!!

AN EXTREEMELEY RARE AND SOUGHT AFTER PRESSING PLEASE NOTE!  THE RARE TRACK MIX 11 OF 'TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS' CAN ONLY BE HEARD ON THIS 1ST PRESSING! WITH THE MATRIX ENDING 606-1!,, AND WAS WITHDRAWN AFTER ONLY ONE DAY OF PRESSING BY GEORGE MARTIN THE MATRIX WAS QUICKLY CHANGED TO THE MORE COMMON 2ND PRESS (606-2)

THE MATRIX

side 1. XEX 606-1

side 2.XEX 605-2

THE MOTHER STAMPERS

side 1. ''2'' ''O''

side 2. ''2'' ''MH''

Revolver is The Beatles' seventh album, released on August 5, 1966. The album showcased a number of new stylistic developments which would become more pronounced on later albums. Many of the tracks on Revolver are marked by an electric guitar-rock sound, in contrast with their previous, folk-rock inspired Rubber Soul. It reached #1 in the UK chart for 7 weeks and #1 on the U.S. chart for 6 weeks!!!.

Revolver was released before the Beatles stopped touring, and some people were disappointed that, during that tour, the Beatles did not perform songs from that album. At least one reason is that the music was getting more complicated, thus getting more difficult to play live. The newest song the Beatles performed on their 1966 tours was "Paperback Writer", released on a single and recorded at the same time as the Revolver album!!!!.

"Eleanor Rigby", one of Paul McCartney's songs on the album, was released as a single (in a double A-side with "Yellow Submarine") concurrently with the album. The song contains McCartney's lyrical imagery and a string arrangement (scored by George Martin under McCartney's direction),!

Lennon was the main writer of "I'm Only Sleeping". George Harrison and John Lennon played the notes for the lead guitar (and for the second guitar in the solo) in reverse order, then reversed the tape and mixed it in. The backwards guitar sound builds the sleepy, ominous, and weeping tone of the song. This, along with backwards vocals used on the Beatles song "Rain" (recorded at the sessions and released separately, as the B-side to the "PaperbacK Writer" single), was the first recorded instance of backmasking in popular music, which Lennon stated that he discovered after mistakenly loading a reel-to-reel tape backwards under the influence of marijuana!!!.

Another key production technique used for the first time on this album was automatic double tracking (ADT), invented by EMI engineer Ken Townsend on 6 April 1966. This technique used two linked tape recorders to create automatically a doubled vocal track. The standard method was to double the vocal by singing the same piece twice onto a multitrack tape, a task Lennon particularly disliked. The Beatles were reportedly delighted with the invention, and used it extensively on Revolver. ADT quickly became a standard pop production technique, and led to related developments, including chorus!!!.

Revolver was also a breakthrough album for Harrison as a songwriter, and he contributed three songs on Revolver, including the opening track, "Taxman". The guitar solo is actually played by McCartney. The "Mr. Wilson" and "Mr. Heath" referred to in the lyrics (right after the word "taxman") are Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, who were, respectively, the British Labour Prime Minister, and Conservative Leader of the Opposition at the time. This marked the first time that public figures were directly named in a Beatles song. In the Anthology 2 version, "Mr. Wilson and Mr Heath" were replaced with "Anybody got a little money." The song was a protest against the high marginal rates of income tax paid by high earners like the Beatles, which were sometimes as much as 95 percent of their income. (This would lead to many top musicians becoming tax exiles in later years.)!!!

Harrison also wrote "I Want to Tell You", about his difficulty expressing himself in words. "Love You To" marked a significant expansion of his burgeoning interest in Indian music and the sitar, which started with "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" on 1965's Rubber Soul. Beatles fans also point out that it was the intro to "Love You To" that was playing in the background when the Harrison character first appears in Yellow Submarine, the animated Beatles movie released in 1968!!!!.

The Vinyl.

This is the original thicker heavier and deeper grooved vinyl and more robust than later pressings. On initial visual inspection this vinyl's playing surface has surface marks\scratches\scuffs AND OF COARSE HAS BEEN WELL PLAYED! I have played the vinyl track for track prior to listing! the 1st thing to note is the audio is clear and very vibrant, and i never heard any distortion,,, however! There is some general background crackle\clicks\pops heard especially during some of the quiet parts but absolutely no skips or jumps. STILL IN MY OPINION VERY ENJOYABLE AND VERY PLAYABLE! OF COARSE VERY COLLECTABLE!!

Please allow for some  static crackle\clicks\pops mainly heard in quiet places during some quiet tracks Remember this is 43 years old and has quite obviously been played!   it is my opinion that this audio is very enjoyable despite this, for an original  and rarest 1st press and very playable!!!!! superbe and awesome original  pressing very sought after and collectable!!!!I would class myself as highly critical! 

To sum up the vinyl is very playable the audio is clear and vibrant and I found this extreemely enjoyable! There is however some crackle\ticks\clicks\pops in the form of surface noise that can be heard especialy during some quiet tracks!

The labels

There is general ware! \scratching\scuffing These labels feature the earliest type available for this pressing please note the text font only found on early press of this album and was soon changed! ''Parlophone co...'' is feature (only early press) also has the rare miss prit of the track ''DOCTOR ROBERT'' whih is misspelt ''DR. ROBERT'' A name has been written on side 1. 

The cover

This is the original Garrod & Lofthouse flipback cover amaizingly super glossy apearance! with very very minimal storageware to talk of (no) splits or tares! Very very minimal creases to the laminate. THIS IS THE ORIGINAL!

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