aug 5, 1966 - Beatles Revolver Album Released

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The Beatles Album, Revolver was a watershed moment in the music industry. Music in the '60s had become almost homogenous and stagnant with most top songs being about young love, with upbeat pop tunes. Revolver was a collection of all original songs which all conveyed a common message about the human experience and life. The songs talked about the reality of death and wanting to make the most out of life. The music itself was very unique with various innovative post-production effects applied to the sound. The music world had never heard anything like it, it drew the attention of the 60’s counterculture movement. The Beatles were also known to use the drug LSD, with their popularity use of the drug became widespread in counter-cultural hotspots like California.

Why did popular culture relate the darker themes of life and death presented in the evolver atom during the cold war era?

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