Revolver (Beatles album) Only Sleeping", "And Your Bird Can Sing" and "Doctor Robert". All tracks written by Lennon–McCartney except those marked with (<nowiki>*</nowiki>), which are by George Harrison. According to Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald: The Beatles Additional musicians and production 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
Revolver (Beatles album) following January, the Beatles carried out overdubs on live recordings taken from their 1965 US tour, for inclusion in the concert film "The Beatles at Shea Stadium". The group's manager, Brian Epstein, had intended that 1966 would then follow the pattern of the previous two years, in terms of the band making a feature film and an accompanying album, followed by concert tours during the summer months. After the Beatles vetoed the proposed film project, the time allocated for filming became a three-month period free of professional engagements. This was the longest period the band members had experienced outside the