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Rubber Soul is a Pop act. Their sound grew out of The Byrds, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Elvis Presley. Those roots explain a lot about how Rubber Soul arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Mighty Mouth, Magical Mystery Tour, Somi, JGRREY and George Jackson, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into The Byrds, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 11 connections around Rubber Soul, reaching back through The Byrds and forward to The Byrds. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Rubber Soul is the sixth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 3 December 1965 in the United Kingdom on EMI's Parlophone label, accompanied by the non-album double A-side single "We Can Work It Out" / "Day Tripper". The original North American release, issued by Capitol Records, contains ten of the fourteen songs and two tracks withheld from the band's Help! (1965) album. Rubber Soul was described as an important artistic achievement by the band, meeting a highly favourable critical response and topping sales charts in Britain and the United States for several weeks.
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Rubber Soul grew out of The Byrds, Booker T. & the M.G.'s, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, shares an orbit with Mighty Mouth, Magical Mystery Tour, Somi and JGRREY, went on to shape The Byrds. 11 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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