Classic Albums-Rubber Soul The Beatles
This Week's classic album segement we are looking at the 1965 album by the Beatles Rubber Soul. By 1965 the Beatles were one of the top groups in the world at that time having had successful hit singles and albums as well doing doing 2 Movies A Hard Days Night and Help as well as touring the world including Australia and NEw Zealand in 1964 as well as AMerica. The recording of the album that became Rubber Soul commeneced on OCtober 18th and eventually finished with the final production and mix down on November 15th. Rubber Soul was released on December 3rd 1965 in England where it went to number 1 on December 19th where it stayed there for 8 weeks and December 6th in the USA which went to number 1 on January 8th 1966 where it stayed there for 6 weeks. this album signified the changes in the group's music as they were starting to experiment with different sounds like the sitar which George Harrison played it on Norwegian Wood as getting into the Indian stuff, hammond organ playe...