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6	* 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.
7	* BlackSheepHit: Both sides of the double A-side single taken from the album are among the most beloved of all Beatles songs but sound basically like nothing else in their catalog. "Yellow Submarine" is pitched somewhere between a folk song for children, a {{Vaudeville}} tune, a pub singalong number, and a Music/SpikeJones-like bit of musical slapstick, while "Eleanor Rigby" is heavily inspired by ClassicalMusic, with all of the music performed by a double string quartet.
8	* CreatorsFavoriteEpisode: John's favourite track on the album was "Here, There and Everywhere".
9	* HostilityOnTheSet: There was a notable altercation between Paul and the rest of the band during the recording of "She Said She Said" that reportedly ended up with him storming out of the studio. It was memorable enough that it even got brought up during the [[Series/TheBeatlesGetBack "Get Back"]] sessions three years later when the topic of disputes during studio work came up, and based on that conversation it sounds like it boiled down to Paul deviating too much from John's preferred arrangement on the song, and George and Ringo siding with John. For a while it was thought that George ended up playing the bass part on the album take (Paul even said so in his authorized biography ''Many Years From Now''), but the liner notes of the 2022 box set say that Paul's bass track was used (but also that some bass notes played on an organ appear toward the end of the song, which might be George's bass contribution).
10	* 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.
11	* ReferencedBy:
12	** "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.
13	** 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).
14	** ''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.
15	** Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Pac-Man" is a parody of "Taxman".
16	** Music/TheMonkees parodied the count-ins (George's slow one followed by Paul's fast one) at the start of "Taxman" by opening up their album ''Headquarters'' with all four of them doing repeated, frantic, out of sync "1-2-3-4" counts as a lead-in to "You Told Me".
17	** The "Pipesucker Report" sketch on ''Series/NotOnlyButAlso'' from 1966 (which included a cameo by John in a different segment) features a bit on a PsychedelicRock band called The Mothers, who perform a song called "The L.S. Bumble Bee", which takes a swipe at the "seagull" tape loop on "Tomorrow Never Knows" by having an actual seagull onstage with the band doing bird calls.
18	* ThrowItIn:
19	** The backwards guitar part on "I'm Only Sleeping" came about after an Creator/{{EMI}} engineer accidentally 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.
20	** On the line "sky of blue and sea of green in our yellow submarine" in the song's last verse, it sounds like Ringo is singing "'''slub'''marine" (or "clubmarine"), possibly his voice cracking or a bad audio edit.
21	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
22	** 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 (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).
23	** "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.
24	** [[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.
25	* WorkingTitle:
26	** ''Abracadabra'', ''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''.
27	** George's habit of not titling songs before recording them led "Love You To" to begin life as "Granny Smith" (after the apple variety later used on the Apple Records label), and "I Want To Tell You" as "I Don't Know" and "Laxton's Superb" (another apple variety), though in the StudioChatter related to this on an alternate take from the box set, Ringo suggests "Tell You".
28	** "Tomorrow Never Knows" was recorded with the placeholder title "Mark I" (since it was the first song recorded for the album). "The Void" (which would've given the the song's lyrics a TitleDrop) was also under consideration, before John borrowed a Ringo malapropism "to sort of take the edge off the heavy philosophical lyrics."

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