KEEP OFF THE GRASS.

RUBBER SOUL WAS THE TRANSITION.THERE IT SITS,BETWEEN THE R&B-TINGED POP OF HELP! AND THE
BREATHTAKING KALEIDOSCOPE THAT WAS REVOLVER.ALL THREE ALBUMS WERE RELEASED IN THE SPACE OF A YEAR,A DEAL OF WORK AND RATE OF PROGRESS AWESOME IN ANY CONTEXT.MOP-TOPS NO LONGER,AT LEAST NOT IN THEIR OWN EYES,THE BEATLES HAD BECOME A STUDIO BAND BEFORE ANYONE KNEW WHAT THAT MEANT.WHILE THEY MAY HAVE COME TO DESPISE THE COMMERCIAL PRESSURES PUT UPON THEM BY EMI(AND BRIAN EPSTEIN) THEY FLOURISHED UNDER THEM,FOR TO FLINCH IN THE FACE OF A CHALLENGE WAS SIMPLY NOT IN THE BEATLES MAKE-UP.
FOR EASY DEFINITION,RUBBER SOUL IS THE POT ALBUM.DYLAN HAD TURNED ON THE BEATLES IN 1964,AND THEIR CONSIDERABLE INTAKE THROUGHOUT THE FILMING OF HELP! EARLIER IN 1965 IS WELL ESTABLISHED.THE COVER PHOTO-YET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY IMAGE,NATURALLY-SHOWS THE FABS STANDING AMONG RHODODENDRON BUSHES;LEAVES OF A MORE VARIEGATED,ILLEGAL KIND WOULD HAVE BEEN OPPOSITE.
RINGO HAS SINCE SAID THAT THE BEATLES PROFFERED NOT TO WORK HIGH,BUT THAT THEY TOOK THEIR HIGH EXPERIENCES INTO THE STUDIO.THIS ALBUM IS PROOF.THE VISION,THE ARTICULATION,THE KNOWINGNESS-ARE ALL ROOTED IN GRASS,BUT THE MANIFESTATION IS CLEAR HEADED ECONOMICAL AND PURPOSEFUL.THE ALBUM IS A PARTICULAR TRIUMPH FOR JOHN LENNON.UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF DYLAN,DOPE AND A FEW LUMPS OF ACID,HIS CREATIVITY WAS IN FULL FLOW,MARKED BY SONGS OF UTTER BRILLIANCE AND MATURITY,DEPTH AND INTELLIGENCE-NOWHERE MAN,NORWEGIAN WOOD,GIRL,IN MY LIFE.THANKS TO JOHN HIMSELF,THIS LATER WENT DOWN AS HIS FAT ELVIS PERIOD.

The Beatles – Nowhere Man (Live in Japan 1966)

The Beatles – Norwegian Wood

the beatles – girl

FOUR LADS FROM LIVERPOOL WHO SHOOK THE WORLD.