Episode 07 – Beatles ’66 pt1

It's 1966! Join the Yesterday & Today podcast as we enter perhaps the single most transformative year in the history of The Beatles, the year that would bring us butcher covers, final live performances, tomorrows that never know and strawberry fields forever. This week we cover January through June of 1966, wherein we find the Beatles hard at work on their 7th LP release Revolver. In these first few months of the new year George Harrison marries to model and longtime girlfriend Pattie Boyd, John Lennon delivers an off-the-cuff interview to friend and journalist Maureen Cleave that will haunt the group in the coming months, Paul McCartney dabbles in experimental sound and helps launch the Indica Gallery in London and Ringo Starr delivers arguably the best drumming performance of his career on the wonderful John Lennon-penned track Rain. In North America, Capitol Records releases the Yesterday & Today LP, combining songs from the English Rubber Soul and the as-yes-to-be-released Revolver. In protest, the boys sent over their choice for the cover to this "butchered" compilation...which sparks some major controversy in the states. All this, plus discover what it sounds like to be in a car with a titanically stoned Bob Dylan and John Lennon!