Revolver (Beatles album) group collective since 1962, and gave them an unprecedented amount of time to prepare for a new album. Writing in "The Beatles Forever", Nicholas Schaffner cites 1966 as the start of the band's "'psychedelic' period" and adds: "That adjective implies not only the influence of certain mind-altering chemicals, but also the freewheeling spectrum of wide-ranging colors that their new music seemed to evoke." Music journalist Carol Clerk describes "Revolver" as having been "decisively informed by acid", following John Lennon and George Harrison's continued experimentation with the drug LSD since the spring of 1965.<ref name="Clerk/Uncut"> Available at Rock's Backpages (subscription required).</ref>
The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests was an American album featuring "Cry for a Shadow," a track recorded by the Beatles in Hamburg in 1961, with five tracks recorded in Hamburg in 1961 in which the Beatles provided backing music for vocalist Tony Sheridan, some of which had been released in Germany on the album "My Bonnie" under the name "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers", because the word "Beatles" sounded too much like "peedles" which was a vulgar slang term in German. The album was supplemented with six previously