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 Me to You", the single for which "Thank You Girl" was the B-side. The song was only released as a single from Vee Jay Records (re-issued by Capitol in 1965 as a "Star Line" single); it would not appear on an album in the US until the 1973 compilation "1962–1966" (also known as "The Red Album"). In Canada, this record could not be called the Beatles' second album, since "Beatlemania! With the Beatles" and "Twist and Shout" had preceded it. A slightly different track listing was released to the Canadian market with similar cover art under the title "The Beatles'