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** According to a [[http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/the-beatles-george-harrison-extraordinary-1966-letter-with-historical-relevation/ 1966 letter from George Harrison to an Atlanta DJ]], the Beatles nearly recorded the album at Creator/StaxRecords in Memphis (home of Music/OtisRedding, Music/IsaacHayes, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, etc.), but the deal fell through over money issues.

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** According to a [[http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/the-beatles-george-harrison-extraordinary-1966-letter-with-historical-relevation/ 1966 letter from George Harrison to an Atlanta DJ]], the Beatles nearly recorded the album at Creator/StaxRecords in Memphis (home of Music/OtisRedding, Music/IsaacHayes, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, etc.), but the deal fell through over money issues.issues (Stax also had ambitions of becoming a Southern version of Creator/{{Motown}} around that time, and were in the process of phasing out non-Stax artists using the studio).
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Paul doesn't play on "She Said She Said", reportedly having stormed out of the studio after an argument with the others during the session (general consensus is that George played the song's bass part).

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* HostilityOnTheSet: Paul possibly doesn't play on "She Said She Said", reportedly having stormed out of the studio after an argument with the others during the session (general consensus is that George (George allegedly played the song's bass part).part, but it's also been claimed that Paul had already finished his bass track before the argument).
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** [[https://youtu.be/jVyRGThtTzA?si=ZMQIHykJpu3tCiTY The early]] [[https://youtu.be/hvtVZ9wiTDo?si=Isy62j75BjGIy55R work tapes]] of "Yellow Submarine" sung by John Lennon featured on the Super Deluxe rerelease of "Revolver" reveal the song was originally ''starkly'' different early on, with the song originally being a dark and melancholic ballad evocative of Lennon's later solo work, a far cry from the cheerful and upbeat children's song it eventually became.
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** Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Pac-Man" is a parody of "Taxman".
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Paul doesn't play on "She Said She Said", reportedly having stormed out of the studio after an argument with the others during the session.

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* HostilityOnTheSet: Paul doesn't play on "She Said She Said", reportedly having stormed out of the studio after an argument with the others during the session.session (general consensus is that George played the song's bass part).
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* HostilityOnTheSet: Paul doesn't play on "She Said She Said", reportedly having stormed out of the studio after an argument with the others during the session.
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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''[[Music/AftermathAlbum Aftermath]]''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Pendulum'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''[[Music/AftermathAlbum Aftermath]]''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.
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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''Music/AftermathAlbum''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''Music/AftermathAlbum''), ''[[Music/AftermathAlbum Aftermath]]''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.

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** ''Revolver'' becomes a plot point in the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "[[Recap/MadMenS5E7LadyLazarus Lady Lazarus]]" when Megan buys Don the LP after he complains about not knowing what is going on in youth and popular culture. She tells him to start with the last track, "Tomorrow Never Knows".

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** ''Revolver'' becomes a plot point in the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "[[Recap/MadMenS5E7LadyLazarus Lady Lazarus]]" when Megan buys Don the LP after he complains about not knowing what is going on in youth and popular culture. She tells him to start with the last track, "Tomorrow Never Knows". After he turns it off, this [[DiegeticSwitch becomes the closing credits music]]. The rights to use the song cost the show's producers $250,000, around five times as much as the typical cost of licensing a song for TV -- and contrasts with the closing credits music for an earlier episode in which an ''instrumental'' version of "Do You Want to Know a Secret" was used.

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** ''Revolver'' becomes a plot point in the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "[[Recap/MadMenS5E7LadyLazarus Lady Lazarus]]" when Megan buys Don the LP

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** ''Revolver'' becomes a plot point in the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "[[Recap/MadMenS5E7LadyLazarus Lady Lazarus]]" when Megan buys Don the LP after he complains about not knowing what is going on in youth and popular culture. She tells him to start with the last track, "Tomorrow Never Knows".
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** ''Revolver'' becomes a plot point in the ''Series/MadMen'' episode "[[Recap/MadMenS5E7LadyLazarus Lady Lazarus]]" when Megan buys Don the LP

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* ReferencedBy: "Got to Get You Into My Life" is notable for having a CoverVersion become a Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers released their version, produced by [=McCartney=], later in 1966 and it reached #6 in the UK. Music/EarthWindAndFire's version, from the ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' film, got to #9 in the US in 1978. The original was also released as a single in 1976, as a promotion for the Creator/CapitolRecords ''Rock 'n' Roll Music'' album, and hit the US Top 10 as well.

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"Got to Get You Into My Life" is notable for having a CoverVersion become a Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers released their version, produced by [=McCartney=], later in 1966 and it reached #6 in the UK. Music/EarthWindAndFire's version, from the ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' film, got to #9 in the US in 1978. The original was also released as a single in 1976, as a promotion for the Creator/CapitolRecords ''Rock 'n' Roll Music'' album, and hit the US Top 10 as well.well.
** A CoverVersion of "Tomorrow Never Knows" closes out Music/PhilCollins' ''Music/FaceValue'', segueing into another cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' as an impromptu tribute to Music/JohnLennon (as Collins heard about his murder while recording the song).
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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/AftermathAlbum''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' ''Music/AftermathAlbum''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.
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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Music/AftermathAlbum''), ''Beatles on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides of the Circle''.
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* ThrowItIn: The backwards guitar part on "I'm Only Sleeping" was the result of an Creator/{{EMI}} engineer accidentally putting a tape on backwards in the studio. The band liked how it sounded, with Music/JohnLennon comparing the sound to Indian music.

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* ThrowItIn: The backwards guitar part on "I'm Only Sleeping" was the result of came about after an Creator/{{EMI}} engineer accidentally putting put a tape on backwards in the studio. The band liked how it sounded, with Music/JohnLennon comparing the sound to Indian music. Averted in that, having decided that the song needed a backwards guitar solo, Harrison then had to decide how he wanted it to go, and then learn to play it backwards, so that, when it was reversed, it would come out sounding right.
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* BlackSheepHit: "Eleanor Rigby".

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* BlackSheepHit: "Eleanor Rigby".Rigby" was one of the double-A side singles off the album (the other being "Yellow Submarine"), but was assured to be felt quite different from the rest of the band's rock/pop oeuvre by virtue of being performed by a double string quartet.
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* ReferencedBy: "Got to Get You Into My Life" is notable for having a CoverVersion become a Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US. Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers released their version, produced by [=McCartney=], later in 1966 and it reached #6 in the UK. Music/EarthWindAndFire's version, from the ''Film/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand'' film, got to #9 in the US in 1978. The original was also released as a single in 1976, as a promotion for the Creator/CapitolRecords ''Rock 'n' Roll Music'' album, and hit the US Top 10 as well.
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** According to a [[http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/the-beatles-george-harrison-extraordinary-1966-letter-with-historical-relevation/ 1966 letter from George Harrison to an Atlanta DJ]], the Beatles nearly recorded the album at Creator/StaxRecords in Memphis (home of Music/OtisRedding, Music/IsaacHayes, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, etc.), but the deal fell through over money issues.

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** According to a [[http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/the-beatles-george-harrison-extraordinary-1966-letter-with-historical-relevation/ 1966 letter from George Harrison to an Atlanta DJ]], the Beatles nearly recorded the album at Creator/StaxRecords in Memphis (home of Music/OtisRedding, Music/IsaacHayes, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, M.G.'s, etc.), but the deal fell through over money issues.



* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles On Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides Of The Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles On on Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides Of The of the Circle''.
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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's pun on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles On Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides Of The Circle''.

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* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's pun {{pun}} on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles On Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides Of The Circle''.
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* BadExportForYou: As usual with American versions of the Fab Four's albums before ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The US release deleted three songs ("I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Dr. Robert") which Creator/CapitolRecords had already released on their ''Yesterday and Today'' album. Since all three were Music/JohnLennon songs, this made the American album lopsided in favor of Music/PaulMcCartney's contributions. America didn't get a complete version of ''Revolver'' until 1987, when all the US-only Beatles albums were replaced by their British equivalents.

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* BadExportForYou: As usual with American versions of the Fab Four's albums before ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The US release deleted three songs ("I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Dr. Robert") which Creator/CapitolRecords had already released on their ''Yesterday and Today'' album. Since all three were Music/JohnLennon songs, this made the American album lopsided in favor of Music/PaulMcCartney's contributions. America didn't get a complete version of ''Revolver'' until 1987, when all the US-only Beatles albums (save for the LP version of ''Music/MagicalMysteryTour'') were replaced by their British equivalents.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the song "Taxman" British politicians UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson and UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath are referenced, making it one of the few Beatles songs that directly reference 1960s society. When George later performed the song in concert in 1991 (in what would be released on his ''Live in Japan'' album), he updated the lyrics slightly, adding another verse changing the political references to ones more relevant of the era (UsefulNotes/JohnMajor, UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush).
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* BadExportForYou: As usual with American versions of the Fab Four's albums before ''Music/SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand''. The US release deleted three songs ("I'm Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Dr. Robert") which Creator/CapitolRecords had already released on their ''Yesterday and Today'' album. Since all three were Music/JohnLennon songs, this made the American album lopsided in favor of Music/PaulMcCartney's contributions. America didn't get a complete version of ''Revolver'' until 1987, when all the US-only Beatles albums were replaced by their British equivalents.
* BlackSheepHit: "Eleanor Rigby".
* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: John's favourite track on the album was "Here, There and Everywhere".
* InspirationForTheWork: While his bandmates were experimenting with LSD, Paul drew his inspiration from the intellectual stimulation he experienced among UsefulNotes/{{London}}'s arts scene, particularly its thriving avant-garde community. This is reflected in the more conventional subject matter of his lyrics.
* ThrowItIn: The backwards guitar part on "I'm Only Sleeping" was the result of an Creator/{{EMI}} engineer accidentally putting a tape on backwards in the studio. The band liked how it sounded, with Music/JohnLennon comparing the sound to Indian music.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: In the song "Taxman" British politicians UsefulNotes/HaroldWilson and UsefulNotes/EdwardHeath are referenced, making it one of the few Beatles songs that directly reference 1960s society. When George later performed the song in concert in 1991 (in what would be released on his ''Live in Japan'' album), he updated the lyrics slightly, adding another verse changing the political references to ones more relevant of the era (UsefulNotes/JohnMajor, UsefulNotes/BorisYeltsin, UsefulNotes/GeorgeHWBush).
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** According to a [[http://recordmecca.com/products-page/museum-quality-collectibles/the-beatles-george-harrison-extraordinary-1966-letter-with-historical-relevation/ 1966 letter from George Harrison to an Atlanta DJ]], the Beatles nearly recorded the album at Creator/StaxRecords in Memphis (home of Music/OtisRedding, Music/IsaacHayes, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MG's, etc.), but the deal fell through over money issues.
** "Father [=MacKenzie=]" in "Eleanor Rigby" almost was written as "Father [=McCartney=]" as John and Paul liked the sound of the name, before Paul decided he didn't want to offend his father.
* WorkingTitle: ''Abracadabra'', ''Pendulums'', ''Fat Man And Bobby'', ''After Geography'' (Music/RingoStarr's pun on Music/TheRollingStones' ''Music/{{Aftermath}}''), ''Beatles On Safari'', ''Magic Circle'' and ''Four Sides Of The Circle''.
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