Among Bea­t­les con­nois­seurs, it’s fair game to claim any­thing from Rub­ber Soul to Abbey Road as one’s favorite album. Now, a full 60 years after it first came out, Revolver is the sin­gle Bea­t­les album held in the high­est esteem — which, nat­u­ral­ly, makes it a seri­ous con­tender for the great­est album ever record­ed. In his new video above, music YouTu­ber David Hart­ley explains what makes Revolver so beloved by recount­ing the his­to­ry of its pro­duc­tion. Nei­ther these nor any of the album’s oth­er now-famil­iar, much-scru­ti­nized songs took straight paths to their final forms. Relat­ed con­tent:How the Bea­t­les Wrote Their Songs: From Ear­ly Demos to Final Record­ingsTomor­row Nev­er Knows: How The Bea­t­les Invent­ed the Future With Stu­dio Mag­ic, Tape Loops & LSDIs “Rain” the Per­fect Bea­t­les Song?