Revolver: The Beatles in Transition by Ben Sears, an ardent Beatles fan.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the most celebrated of the Beatles albums, but the one that preceded it, Revolver, while easily overlooked, is significant in the group’s development.  Today’s Lyceum will look at some of the new things the Beatles were doing as a studio band and how they were part of their transition from a performing band to the ground-breaking studio group they became.