60 Years Later: The Beatles Rescript Rock Rule Book With Cohesive 'Rubber Soul' - Glide Magazine

Rubber Soul: How the Beatles Plastic Soul Album Changed Music

In late nineteen sixty five the Beatles were famous enough to sell any record they liked, yet worried enough about their future to reinvent what an album could be. Rubber Soul was their response. Born from a throwaway remark about “plastic soul,” it fused folk, soul and pop, turned the studio into a playground, and quietly rewrote the rules of rock music.

60 Years Later: The Beatles Rescript Rock Rule Book With Cohesive 'Rubber Soul' - Glide Magazine

In the sixty years since its release, the Beatles’ Rubber Soul has come to be regarded as one of the pinnacles of the Liverpudlians’ discography. But, sacrilegious as it may sound, innovative instrumentation and production barely offset the erratic quality of the original material. Composed to meet the contractual obligation of another full-length long player just four months after their previous album, the ‘soundtrack’ to their second movie, He…