The lyrics were written with assistance from Scottish singer Donovan [203] and tell of life on a sea voyage accompanied by friends.

The latter image proved instantly controversial in America due to its depiction of dismembered baby dolls and raw meat.According to Rodriguez, this list seems the most likely combination of sounds fed into the track, although commentators have long disagreed on the precise content of the five loops. Colour outtake from Robert Whitaker's photo session that produced the back-cover image used on the LP. This first version of "Tomorrow Never Knows", along with several other outtakes from the album sessions, [47] was included on the 1996 compilation Anthology 2.

The book is illustrated with images of handwritten lyrics, tape boxes, and recording sheets, as well as 1966 print ads and extracts from the graphic novel, Revolver 50.Speaking about his role in 1966, Martin said: "I've changed from being the gaffer to four Herberts from Liverpool to what I am now, clinging on to the last vestiges of recording power.

Annie Zaleski of The Guardian gave the album five out of five stars, writing: " Revolver 's new details tease out deeper meanings in the songs. The album appeared a year before psychedelic drugs became a phenomenon in youth culture, [256] and it was the source of confusion for the group's more conservative fans. Although once thought to be Dr Charles Roberts, whose celebrity clients included Edie Sedgwick, the eponymous doctor was Robert Freymann, who was struck off the New York Medical Society's register in 1975. While arranging dates for the band's world tour, [29] Epstein agreed to a proposal by journalist Maureen Cleave for the Beatles to be interviewed separately for a series of articles that would explore each of the band members' personality and lifestyle beyond his identity as a Beatle.A guitar-based rock song in the style of "And Your Bird Can Sing", [245] its lyrics celebrate a New York physician known for dispensing amphetamine injections to his patients. Lennon adapted the lyrics from Timothy Leary's book The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead, which equates the realisations brought about through LSD with the spiritually enlightened state achieved through meditation. Lennon’s lyrics, kind of an interdimensional blues ripped from Timothy Leary’s interpretation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, still sound ominous and anything but cute.