Every Sound There Is

Contents

• Introduction: ‘Of the beginning’
• ‘When I’m in the middle of a dream’: the contributors remember Revolver
• I: ‘Where do they all come from’?
• 1: Detroit and Memphis: the soul of Revolver
• 2: I’m Eleanor Rigby: female identity and Revolver
• 3: Sailing to the sun: Revolver ’s influence on Pink Floyd
• II: ‘It is shining’
• 4: Revolver as a pivotal art work: structure, harmony, and vocal harmonization
• 5: Tonal family resemblance in Revolver
• 6: A flood of flat-sevenths
• III: ‘And our friends were all aboard’
• 7: ‘Tomorrow never knows’: the contribution of George Martin and his production team to the Beatles’ new sound
• 8: The Beatles for everyone: rearranging base and superstructure in the rock ballad
• 9: Ringo round Revolver : rhythm, timbre, and tempo in rock drumming
• 10: The Beatle who became a man: Revolver and George Harrison’s metamorphosis
• 11: Premature turns: thematic disruption in the American version of Revolver
• IV: ‘Here, there, and everywhere’
• 12: ‘Love is all and love is everyone’: a discussion of four musical portraits
• 13: The Beatles, Postmodernism, and ill-tempered musical form: cleaning my gun
• or, the use of accidentals in Revolver
• 14: ‘It is not dying': Revolver and the birth of psychedelic sound