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THE BEATLES Released Hit Single ‘NOWHERE MAN’ Today 60 Years Ago

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21 February 2026

THE BEATLES (1960-1970) released NOWHERE MAN, one of the many highlights
of their game-changing LP Rubber Soul as a single in America and Canada, this
day 60 years ago, on 21 February 1966.

The song was written by John Lennon and credited to the Lennon–McCartney
partnership. Both in the US and Canada the song topped the charts.

Lennon reflected in a 1980 Playboy interview: “I’d spent five hours that morning
trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay
down. Then ‘Nowhere Man’ came, words and music, the whole damn thing as I lay
down.

The song is generally credited as being among the first
Beatles ones, not pertaining to themes of romance or love.

“He’s a real nowhere man
Sitting in his nowhere land
Making all his nowhere plans for nobody

Doesn’t have a point of view
Knows not where he’s going to
Isn’t he a bit like you and me?””

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THE BEATLES – Masterpiece ‘RUBBER SOUL’ Came Out 60 Years Ago Today

Posted on December 3 by JL

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3 December 2025

THE BEATLES released one of their masterpiece LPs,
with their 6th one RUBBER SOUL, on 3 December 1965,
today 60 years ago.

Pitchfork said: “It’s arguably the most important artistic leap in the Beatles’ career,
the signpost that signalled a shift away from Beatlemania and the heavy demands
of teen pop, toward more introspective, adult subject matter.

It’s also the record that started them on their path toward the valuation of creating
studio records over live performance. If nothing else, it’s the record on which their
desire for artistic rather than commercial ambition took center stage.

A radical idea at a time when the success of popular music
was measured in sales and quantity rather than quality.”

John Lennon: “Rubber Soul was the pot album, and Revolver was acid. I mean, we
weren’t all stoned making Rubber Soul, because in those days we couldn’t work on pot.”

George Harrison: “We all think it’s just about our best LP. I can’t wait for it to
come out. The sleeve’s finished too, and the picture on the front is pretty good!”

Paul McCartney: “The effect was to stretch the perspective and elongate the faces.
We excitedly asked photographer Robert Freeman if it was possible to print the photo
this way. Being Bob, he said, ‘Yes,’ and the cover to our album Rubber Soul was decided.”

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