Revolution 1

The track was recorded at EMI Studios in London beginning on May 30, 1968, during the first sessions for The Beatles. John Lennon led the recording with Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, while George Martin produced and Geoff Emerick engineered the early White Album sessions. Released on The Beatles in 1968, it presented the slower album version of Lennon political song before the harder single version Revolution. The track reflected the band engagement with the protest politics of 1968 while preserving Lennon ambivalent line about destruction. It remains a key White Album recording and an important counterpart to the louder single version of Revolution. The song continues to be discussed for its political stance, its blues based arrangement and its place in the Beatles late 1960s studio evolution.