Revolver (US Capitol Version)

Revolver, as released by Capitol in the US, marks a change in the record company's policies. It came out on August 8, 1966, just three days after the UK release. As three songs on the record had already been taken to the American public as part of the previous record, Yesterday and Today, Capitol once more tinkered with the arrangement of tracks as published in the UK. They took out I'm Only Sleeping, And Your Bird Can Sing and Doctor Robert. Thus, the US album had 11 tracks instead of 14, and lasted only 28 minutes and 20 seconds. This would be the last time, however. It took them 10 albums to realize that neither the public nor the Beatles themselves wanted different records in the US from those sold in England on Parlophone. The US version of Revolver was quite successful commercially, selling to 5x platinum in the US and 2x platinum in Canada, topping the charts in both countries. When the CD version of Revolver was published in 1987, the UK track listing was restored.