The Beatles (album) stereo only. In the UK, the following album, "Yellow Submarine", was the last to be shipped in mono. The mono version of "The Beatles" was made available worldwide on 9 September 2009, as part of "The Beatles in Mono" CD boxed set. A reissue of the original mono LP was released worldwide in September 2014. The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, in collaboration with McCartney. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name, in Helvetica,
Revolver (Beatles album) Lennon compositions, as marking the start of a process whereby "Revolver" "steadily climbed in public estimation" to become recognised as the Beatles' finest work. In Britain, its supremacy over "Sgt. Pepper" was one of the cultural revisions established by the Britpop phenomenon in the 1990s. Writing on the BBC's website in August 2016, Greg Kot identified the "More popular than Christ" controversy and the attention subsequently afforded the release of "Sgt. Pepper" in 1967 as the two factors that had contributed to "Revolver" being relatively overlooked. Kot concluded that the ensuing decades had seen this impression reversed, since "Revolver" "does