{"id":313786,"date":"2025-12-13T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313786\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T11:32:08","slug":"the-beatles-album-johnny-marr-thought-was-everyones-favourite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313786\/","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles album Johnny Marr thought was everyone’s favourite"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Credits: Far Out \/ Apple Corps \/ Raph_PH)<\/p>\n

Sat 13 December 2025 10:02, UK <\/p>\n

The Beatles<\/a> have undeniably influenced almost every inch of the modern music sphere ever since they played their opening notes back in the early 1960s, but that lineage never seemed to be more prevalent than when the future of British rock came into force. <\/p>\n

The likes of Oasis<\/a>, The Stone Roses, and Black Sabbath were all hugely forthright in claiming that the Fabs were each of their ultimate guiding lights when leading them towards their respective rock destinies, and Johnny Marr is no different from the rest. The Smiths may have been a law unto themselves, but the wise words of The Beatles were never far from view.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was clear from the very beginning that, despite being part of a close unit as a band, Marr always knew how to stand on his own two feet as far as the case for voicing his opinions went. In this sense, in his eyes, there was only ever one album by the Liverpudlian legends that soared down the decades still at the top of the tree \u2013 and he wanted that view to be shared by everyone. <\/p>\n

The year was 1966, and although he was still so young at the time that he would have barely understood the world around him, from the second that Revolver hit the airwaves, Marr inherently knew that something had forever changed. \u201cI got influenced by The Beatles in a big way<\/a> \u2013 way, way after the event \u2013 through the advent of the VCR,\u201d he told Uncut upon the album\u2019s 55th anniversary. \u201cFor many years, I believed Revolver was everybody\u2019s favourite Beatles record. I mean \u2013 it is, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n

It may seem a bold statement to make, given the legions of Beatle maniacs and the scores of their vast back catalogue, but Marr was ready to come in clutch with his justifications. \u201cBy the time they made Revolver, they had been through A Hard Day\u2019s Night, Please Please Me, Help! and everything \u2013 and they\u2019re still their own entity. Of course,\u00a0Revolver\u00a0is influenced by all the things you hear on those records, particularly the soul records that are hip in the UK and London at the time, but it\u2019s The Beatles.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThey didn\u2019t need to look outwardly at other scenes to find a concept. In a way, Revolver is the culmination of an extremely mod phenomena.\u201d This casting eye on the history of the moment makes Marr all the more correct in his assertions \u2013 often cited as The Beatles\u2019 first dip into the intoxicating waters of psychedelia, it was a time that reaped untold consequences on the rest of their work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this sense, the guitarist is right to claim that Revolver is perhaps the most culturally significant of any Beatles output, and therefore, in his opinion, the ultimate favourite. As their spirits deepened, drug taking increased, and sonic innovation rose exponentially, that album symbolised a definitive turning point \u2013 indeed, the revolver had fired its shot, and everyone spun around to observe the spectacle. <\/p>\n

There\u2019s no doubt that the ability to turn heads with that velocity was something that was both envied and adored among bands everywhere, even decades down the line from the actual event itself. That\u2019s exactly why Marr and the rest of The Smiths were so head over heels: because The Beatles created something that they could only replicate. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s not meant as an insult to any other band who came after the Fab Four, because their music is as influential in its own right, but when it really boils down to it, all roads lead back to that one infamous quartet. For Marr, Revolver may have represented the pinnacle, but in many ways, the climb to reach the top of that mountain was all the more important.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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