Russell Reising, 'Every Sound There Is'. The Beatles' Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll

Abstract

Russell Reising declares in the introduction to his excellent collection commemorating Revolver that “Revolver has always been the right answer” (1) to any question concerning the “best” Beatles album of all time. Reising suggests that this album, instead of the more popular and critically acclaimed Sgt. Pepper, is rapidly tightening “its grip on our collective imagination”(1) for it introduces the Beatles as true pioneers of musical experimentation. As a “grandly complex and ambitious statem...