Revolver (Beatles album) as the Beatles'. While also highlighting the importance of the production, David Howard writes that "Revolver" was a "genre-transforming album", on which Martin and the Beatles had "obliterated recording studio conventions". Combined with the similarly "visionary" work of American producer Phil Spector, Howard continues, through "Revolver", the recording studio had become "its own instrument; record production had been elevated into art." Whereas "Sgt. Pepper" had long been identified as the Beatles' greatest album, since the 2000s "Revolver" has often surpassed it in lists of the group's best work. Sheffield cites the album's 1987 CD release, with the full complement of
The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines were "glad to have done what we did … We must have been the only people who'd ever dared to snub Marcos." As of 2016, none of the former Beatles had ever returned to the Philippines, despite an attempt by Filipino musician Ely Buendia – in response to the promotional campaign for Starr's 2015 album "Postcards from Paradise" – to lure Starr back to the country. According to Walter Everett (lead singers appear in parenthesis): According to Barry Miles and Walter Everett: The Beatles' 1966 tour of Germany, Japan and the Philippines The English rock group the Beatles toured Germany,