George Harrison’s Favorite Beatles Record Revealed

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The Beatles, one of the most successful and influential bands in history, gave their fans a steady stream of commercially successful pop music through their iconic albums. From their humble beginnings as pop boybands, they would develop into something truly remarkable, eventually becoming one of the most influential and adored bands of all time.
We, the fans, have a right to wonder what the Fab Fourโs favorite record is, given their stature as music industry titans. This time around, weโll focus on George Harrisonโs personal favorite among the many albums he recorded with The Beatles.
He was dubbed the โQuiet Beatle,โ but Harrison was more aptly defined as the overlooked member of the group because he shared a band with two of the greatest singer-songwriters of all time, John Lennon and Paul McCartney. And when it came to picking Beatles albums, Harrison truly resonated with his choice: Rubber Soul.
โRubber Soul was my favorite album,โ he once admitted. โEven at that time, I think that it was the best one we made.โ George Harrisonโs favorite album would highlight a period of creative uncertainty and problems, yet it was also the record that reviewers regarded as a watershed moment.
โThe most important thing about it was that we were suddenly hearing sounds we werenโt able to hear before,โ he added. โAlso, we were being more influenced by other peopleโs music and everything was blossoming at that timeโincluding us.โ
Rubber Soul was perhaps the greatest significant artistic leap in the Beatlesโ career, signaling a change away from Beatlemania and the heavy expectations of teen pop, and toward more contemplative, adult subject matter. Itโs also the record that set them on the path of prioritizing studio recordings above live performances. If nothing else, itโs the album on which their quest for artistic rather than financial ambition took center stageโa new concept at a time when popular music success was evaluated in sales and quantity rather than quality. Harrison was right in picking this record; it showed The Beatles right at their transition to becoming one of the greatest artists of all time.