For his favourite Beatles album, you may have thought George would have picked The White Album, after all, it has four of Harrison’s own compositions. George, was not a fan of Sgt. Pepper -He said: “It became an assembly process—just little parts and then overdubbing,” he felt they had lost the edge that came with live performances.
So it feels right that George Harrison’s favourite LP would reflect a time of creative unknowns and artistic challenges. It was also the album that critics have defined as a marked turning point:
“Rubber Soul was my favourite album,” he once revealed.
“Even at that time, I think that it was the best one we made,” he added when reflecting on the iconic record in the ’90s. While it could be easy to see this as the first moment Harrison really broke out, he loves the album for a different reason.
He wistfully recalled: “The most important thing about it was that we were suddenly hearing sounds we weren’t able to hear before. Also, we were being more influenced by other people’s music and everything was blossoming at that time—including us.”
Rubber Soul is often seen as one of the most experimental of The Beatles’ albums and reflects a moment of unbridled creativity within the band—a sparking a feeling that would ignite the rest of the Fab Four’s subsequent output. Arguably this was the moment that the Fab Four transcended from pop sensations into musical icons.
To John Lennon it was all rather simple: “We were just getting better, technically and musically, that’s all. Finally, we took over the studio. In the early days, we had to take what we were given– we didn’t know how you can get more bass. We were learning the technique on Rubber Soul. We were more precise about making the album, that’s all. And we took over the cover and everything.”
More so than any other, this album was about challenging not only themselves as musicians and creator but, Rubber Soul was a challenge to the audience too—an aspect George would always push forward with all of his work.
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