I wasn’t really much of a Beatle head until my college buddy, Don Penney, beat me over the head with them. Don’t get me wrong… I always liked the Beatles, but until I heard Revolver, needle drop style, beginning to end, I didn’t appreciate their greatness.

The chains came off of all modern musicians with this recording… rules became options… strict roles of producer, engineer, arranger, musician, songwriter began to blur or melt away altogether… permission to experiment in the studio granted… “create” and “manipulate” instead of simply “capture”.

Every Beatle album is huge, of course. “Hard Day’s Night” “The White Album” “Pepper” and “Abbey Road” loom large in my life too, and I was going to list them separately. But after some thought, I realized that they just don’t do what Revolver does for me.

Yes, this album changed music forever. I was just a little late to the party, that’s all.