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
1 (Beatles album) its original full-length version (slightly over seven minutes); on the American version of "20 Greatest Hits" it had been released as a shortened version. Before "1", all 27 songs were available mainly in two remastered CD versions. First on the respective Beatles albums released in 1987 (as well as "Past Masters, Volume One" and "Past Masters, Volume Two", released in 1988). The second remastering was made available on the CD versions for "1962–1966" and "1967–1970" (released in 1993). The songs on "1" were remastered specifically for the release in 2000. According to the liner notes of the album, the original