Rubber Soul

The sixth UK album and eleventh US album of The Beatles is Rubber Soul. It was released on 3rd December 1965 just four weeks before the Christmas. Rubber Soul is often adduced as one of the greatest album in pop history. The title of this album was by Paul McCartney which means English Soul. Rubber Soul was chosen as the 40th greatest album of all the time by the Q magazine voters. Of 100 Greatest British albums ever the same magazine placed Rubber Soul in 21st place in the year 2000. In the year 2003 the Rolling Stone magazine placed this album in 5th place in the list of 500 greatest album of all the time. The Time magazine in the year 2006 had chosen this album as one among 100 best albums of all the time. This album again has fourteen songs which are “Drive My Car”, “Norwegian Woods”, “You Won’t See Me”, “Nowhere Man”, “Think for Yourself”, “The World”, “Michelle”, “What Goes On”, “Girl”, “I’m Looking Through You”, “It’s My Life”, “Wait”, “If I Needed Someone” and “Run For Your Life”. All songs were written and composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney except “Think for Yourself” and “If I Needed Someone” which were by Harrison and “What Goes On” has the contribution of Ringo Starr along with Lennon and Paul.

Revolver

The seventh album by The Beatles was Revolver which was released on 5th August 1966 by Parlophone. Distinctly many tracks in the Revolver were marked by electric guitar-rock sound rather than folk rock. With this significant changed it reached the number 1 position in both the UK and Us chart’s and remained in the top for seven and six weeks respectively. Unlike other albums tracks from this were not performed lively since The Beatles reasoned that it’s very difficult and complex to perform songs like “Tomorrow Never Knows” with live instruments. In the history of rock music Revolver if often mentioned as one of the greatest albums. By the Music of Millennium in the year 1997 it was named the 3rd greatest album of all time. In the year 2000 the readers of Q magazine placed it in the first position in the list of 100 Greatest British albums ever and the same magazine placed it in 4th place in the year 2006. Except three songs namely “Taxman”, “Love You To” and “I Want to Tell You” which were by Harrison all the remaining tracks in the album were written and composed by Lennon and McCartney.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The eighth album by the British rock band The Beatles is Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It is recognized as the most prestigious album of all time by all publications. It was recorded in a period of 129 days. Started on 6th December 1966 it was released on 1st June 1967 in UK and the following day in US. In 2003 the Rolling Stone ranked it the greatest album of all time. In the usual manner all songs were written and composed by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. It includes “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” and of length 2:02, “With A Little Help from My Friends” of 2:44, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” that lasts for3:28, “Getting Better” that lasts for 2:47, “Fixing a Hole: of length 2:36, “She’s Leaving Home” of length 3:35, “Being for the benefit of Mr. Kite!” that lasts for 2:37, “Within You and Without You” is by George Harrison that lasts for 5:05, “When I’m Sixty-Four” is of length 2:37, “Lovely Rita” of length 2:42, “Good Morning Good Morning” of length 2:41, “Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band” reprised that lasts for 1:18 and the lead vocals for this track are McCartney with Harrison and Lennon, and finally “A Day in the Life” which is of length 5:33. This bagged many awards including Best Album of the Year, Best Album Cover, and Best Arrangements of Instruments Accompanying Vocalists, etc.