As I write this post, I am listening to the albums Beatles For Sale and Help! Many people, obviously, consider Sgt. Pepper’s to be the big “turning point” album for the Beatles, what with the drugs and the psychedelic tunes. However, I always felt that the two aforementioned albums also signaled a change of sorts. For example, Beatles For Sale contains songs including Rock and Roll Music, Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey, and Words of Love, songs that are very reminiscent of older rock and roll, and covers, I might add. However, getting into Help!, one finds songs such as You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away, Ticket to Ride, and Yesterday. Sure, songs such as Dizzy Miss Lizzy (another cover) and even The Night Before may have that older rock feel, but in my opinion, the first three songs that I mentioned signaled just as much a musical shift as anything on Sgt. Pepper’s, albeit less trippy.
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