music · 08 August 1966 · 59 years ago
In response to John Lennon's remark about The Beatles being bigger than Jesus, The South African Broadcasting Corporation banned all Beatles records. Also on this day The Beatles LP Revolver was released in the US, the bands seventh album featured: Taxman, Eleanor Rigby, I'm Only Sleeping, Here, There and Everywhere, She Said She Said, And Your Bird Can Sing and Tomorrow Never Knows. It spent 77 weeks on the Billboard chart peaking at No.1.
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