Revolver (Beatles album) Revolver (Beatles album) Revolver is the seventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 5 August 1966, it was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology up to that time, building on the advances of their late 1965 release "Rubber Soul". The album's diverse sounds include tape loops and backwards recordings on the psychedelic "Tomorrow Never Knows", a classical string octet on "Eleanor Rigby", and Indian-music backing on "Love You To". The album was reduced to eleven songs by Capitol Records in
The Beatles' Second Album The Beatles' Second Album The Beatles' Second Album is the Beatles' second Capitol Records album, and their third album released in the United States including "Introducing... The Beatles" released three months earlier on Vee-Jay Records. "The Beatles' Second Album" replaced "Meet the Beatles!" at number one on the album charts in the US. In 2004 "The Beatles' Second Album" was issued for the first time on compact disc (catalogue number CDP 7243 8 66877 2 2), (CDP 7243 8 66878 2 1) as part of "The Capitol Albums, Volume 1" boxed set and was issued in a miniature cardboard replica