The seismic shift that happened simply because after engineering every Beatles song through Rubber Soul Norman Smith decided to leave because he wanted to produce, which opened the door for a much younger Geoff Emerick (born in 1946, a full 23 years after Smith, who was even older than George Martin) to step in and work on Revolver, which blazed the way from a more acoustic-leaning sound to a technical & creative blizzard of electric revolution mostly enabled by Emerick’s own willingness to push the boundaries of the possible along with the band; how different would Revolver have been if Norman Smith had stayed on to engineer? I'd pay money to watch a coupla hours of that breakdown, no problem.

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