Pepper,” and McCartney has often said there are days he leans toward any of those four as his favorite of the band’s studio works during its relatively short but astonishingly fertile seven-year career as a recording unit.īut dozens of musicians, producers, record executives, music writers and others polled by Rolling Stone magazine in 2012 place “Sgt. Purists still love to debate whether “Rubber Soul,” “Revolver” or “Abbey Road” are more consistently creative works than “Sgt. That made us experiment more, inspired us to try the Moog synthesizer, made us generally be wild and just say ‘What the hell?’” In the studio The Beatles encouraged George Martin to achieve "the impossible" and in turn, George and the engineers would find innovative ways of realising this despite still using only four-track equipment.Indeed, the Doors’ drummer, John Densmore, told The Times recently, “We were working on our second album, ‘Strange Days’ and while we were working on it, we got an early copy of ‘Sgt.
Of course the music was more complex and now that touring was over, there was no need to consider what could be reproduced in front of a live audience.
Between November 1966 and April, 1967, they spent over 400 hours in the studio - a far cry from the Please Please Me days. Now that touring was behind them more time could be spent writing and recording.
Revolver had only just been completed in time prior to the band flying off on yet another tour. Work had begun on the recording in late 1966 and at one stage it was thought that both Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever would also be included but when these were released as a single in February, that idea was abandoned. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the band's eighth album became the soundtrack to the "summer of love" but its appeal is timeless.
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