How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month

How the Beatles Made their Most Acclaimed Album, Revolver, Released 60 Years Ago This Month Among Beatles connoisseurs, it’s fair game to claim anything from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album. But even within that span of the catalog, a hierarchy of acclaim exists, and that hierarchy has been rearranged over the decades. The ecstatic reception of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band lasted at least a decade. By the turn of the nineteen-eighties, its immediate predecessor Revolver had joined it at the top spot of critical regard; twenty years after that, Abbey Road had displaced Sgt. Pepper. Now, a full 60 years after it first came out, Revolver is the single Beatles album held in the highest esteem — which, naturally, makes it a serious contender for the greatest album ever recorded. In his new video above, music YouTuber David Hartley explains what makes Revolver so beloved by recounting the history of its production. As in h

Added 12 Aug 2026