The long and winding tribute to the Beatles. Part II: from Rubber Soul to Magical Mystery Tour (a)

In the second part of the tribute to the beatles the focus is on the years between 1965 to 1967. During this time the Beatles, toured the world, produced four lps and made a movie.
'Rubber Soul' was the Beatles tribute to their heroes, the soul music of Motown, Wilson Pickett, Smokey Robinson etc. Although the considered themselves incapable of writing soulful tunes, their masterfully created songs "Drive my Car", 'Day Tripper", "The Word" with their funky beats prove them wrong. Moreover, the soul was infused in their own sound, always unique and always recognizable.
Pop tunes like "I'm Looking Through You", "You Won't See Me" were brilliant and powerful as ever, their sound at times became more 'grainy' like in "Nowhere Man", "Think for Yourself", "If I Needed Someone". Richness in the orchestration of the ballads appeared ("In My Life", "Michelle"), piano and strings added to the texture of the sound, which became gradually more and more complicated. In "Norwegian Wood" the sitar made it entrance to the pop scene, for the first time, pointing the direction towards the sound explorations of psychedelia.
"Revolver" followed, only to raise the bar of creativity even higher. With "Taxman" the Beatles commended on politics, "Eleanor Rigby" shed light to the lives of the lonely ones, "Dr. Robert" spoke directly of spychedelic substances. "Yellow Submarine" was the first pop song for kids, but also the first pop song to incorporate sound effects. The Beatles experimented extensively in the studio, with tape-loops, sounds recorded and played backwards and 'unorthodox' approaches to recording. Lennon sang while lying on the floor, the words to "I'm only sleeping", and demanded thet the technicians made him sound like the Dalailama on a mountaintop, for "Tomorrow Never Knows" (the title being another Ringo-ism by the way). In short, pop music was morphing into something new, unexpected, unpredictable. The Beatles, tired of touring to play live in front of ten of thousands of people, who couldn't hear them because of their own screaming and the limitations of that era's equipment, declared they would stop concerts and tours. Their music they were creating from 'Revolver' onwards, could no more be reproduced live with three guitars and a set of drums anyway. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, upon hearing 'Revolver' went on to create "Pet Sounds".