OK... this is where things get stupid! Picture this... August 6, 1965, The Beatles release 'Help!', an album so perfect it's insane... on the back of a crazy touring schedule that includes the first football stadium concerts in the States, on top of another motion picture movie... then get asked by 'Beatle people' to come up with ANOTHER album and ANOTHER single for the Xmas market (cause that's what Beatles do!)....
And what eventuates??? Oh my lordy... Their greatest album to date (considered by many to be their best) and not just a progressive sounding single, BUT TWO singles and hence another term in the music industry is coined thanks to The Beatles... the 'Double A' single... 'We Can Work It Out' coupled with 'Day Tripper'... Can you imagine today a band coming up with those two songs and NOT put them on their next album!!! So there we have it... The 'Double A' single released 3rd December 1965 on the SAME day as the brilliant 'Rubber Soul'!!!!!
And what of 'Rubber Soul'? 'Drive My Car', 'Norwegian Wood' (that sitar), 'Nowhere Man' and the beautiful, beautiful Michelle... Oh did I mention 'In My Life' (Top 5), 'Girl' and 'I'm Looking Through You'???? PPPLLLEAAASSSEEEE.......
It could be said that this is John's creative peak (as Paul reaches next album) but it's the BLEND and influence on each other that makes The Beatles otherworldly. Why oh why did George bring that Sitar in???? He made a great John song into perhaps up to that point his greatest song!!! It's these crazy universal collisions that drove this band up into the stratosphere...
One more note... The album cover!!!!! Bloody hell !!!! Iconic....
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