RUBBER SOUL
Parlophone
PMC 1267 (MONO) - PCS 3075 (STEREO) CDP 7 46640 2 CD
Released - 3rd December 1965
Produced - George Martin
34.55
Just two years nine months after their debut album Please Please Me, the Beatles released their sixth album, Rubber Soul, with for the first time writing contributions from all four Beatles.
Who could have predicted that the four mop tops from 1963 could have progressed this far in such a short amount of time. Another fourteen self penned songs begin with the Paul McCartney rocker Drive My Car. through the first use by George Harrison of the sitar on Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown), while Lennon & McCarney classics such as Michelle, Nowhere Man, In My Life & Girl revealed that the Lennon/McCartney songwriting partnership more often than not, only existed in name, as the songs now had a more individual stamp on them.
Single
Amazingly considering the abundance of obvious singles on Rubber Soul, there was no single released from thealbum.Instead the Beatles were still able to release We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper as a 7"!
The Number One Single That Never Was
Nowhere Man
The Fab Four
Drive My Car - A Paul McCartney rocker of the highest order, an obvious single for any other band on the planet!
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) - A classic Lennon song is taken to new heights by the use for the first time of the sitar on a Beatles track
Michelle - The Overlanders had a number one single with this classic McCartney ballad & I bought it!
In My Life - There are places I remember, All my life though some have changed, Some forever not for better, Some have gone and some remain. John Lennon in nostalgic mood on another classic song, a forerunner to Strawberry Fields Forever & Penny Lane.
Not A Second Tme?
What Goes On - I know, don't pick on Ringo again! But it was his first credited song & what competition he was up against!
Eddie M
TRACK LISTING
Drive My Car
Norwegian Wood
You Won't See Me
Think For Yourself
The Word
Michelle
What Goes On
Girl
I'm Looking Through You
In My Life
Wait
If I Needed Someone
Run For Your Life
