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The Beatles Revolver LP  1st US Pressing 1966 ST-2576 Capitol Rainbow Scranton Archival Sleeve John Lennon Paul McCartney Ringo George Harrison This is my original copy bought Summer 66 in NYC when released still real sounds good
Scranton/East coast pressing.Black rainbow label without "subsidiary" rim text. First run label, crediting songs to Lennon-McCartney.
Pressed at  factory as identified by the IAM triangle stamp in the run-outs.
The eleven-song North American LP was the band's tenth album on Capitol Records and twelfth US album in total. The release of Revolver marked the last time that Capitol issued an altered UK Beatles album for the North American market. When the Beatles re-signed with EMI in January 1967, their contract stipulated that Capitol could no longer alter the track listings of their albums
Revolver is the seventh  by the English  band . It was released on 5 August 1966, accompanied by the  single "" / "". The album was the Beatles' final recording project before their retirement as live performers and marked the group's most overt use of studio technology to date, building on the advances of their late 1965 release . It has since become regarded as one of the greatest and most innovative albums in the history of popular music, with recognition centred on its range of musical styles, diverse sounds and lyrical content.

The Beatles recorded Revolver after taking a three-month break at the start of 1966, and during a period when London was feted as . Regarded by some commentators as the start of the group's  period, the songs reflect their interest in the drug , Eastern philosophy and the  while addressing themes such as death and transcendence of material concerns. With no plans to reproduce their new material in concert, the band made liberal use of , , , close audio miking, and instruments outside of their standard live set-up. Among its tracks are "", incorporating heavy Indian  and a collage of ; "Eleanor Rigby", a song about loneliness featuring a  as its only musical backing; and "", a foray into . The sessions also produced a non-album single, "" backed with "

Revolver expanded the boundaries of pop music, revolutionised standard practices in studio recording, advanced principles espoused by the , and inspired the development of , ,  and . The album cover, designed by , combined -inspired line drawing with photo collage and won the 1967 . 

In America, Capitol were wary of the religious references in "Eleanor Rigby", given the ongoing controversy, and instead pushed "Yellow Submarine". The latter peaked at number 2 on the , making it, in Gould's description, "the first 'designated' Beatles single since 1963" not to top that chart. On the  chart, Revolver hit number 1 on 10 September, a week after the end of Yesterday and Today's five-week run at the top. The Beatles were presented with gold discs from the  (RIAA), recognising the album as a "million seller", during their 24 August press conference at the  in Hollywood. Revolver was number 1 there for six weeks and remained on the chart until mid February 1968. In March 1967, Revolver was nominated for the . Voormann's cover design won the Grammy for .