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The Beatles: Revolver, Special Edition review — a clearer view of a pop masterpiece

★★★★★Do you really need another version of one of the best – and most famous – albums ever made? Is there anything left to discover about a record from the second half of 1966 that combined the pop discipline of the Beatles’ early years with the questing adventurousness of their later ones? Besides, Revolver is so perfect, with its 14 three-minute gems covering the gamut from libertarian protest rock (Taxman) to childlike whimsy (Yellow Submarine) to pocket symphonies of the expanded consciousness (Tomorrow Never Knows), that digging under its surface with all manner of alternate takes seems superfluous. As for Giles Martin providing a new mix of the original album, it could be viewed by Beatles nuts as

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