While the World Cup of 1966 was being played, The Beatles were closed at the Abbey Road Studios, finishing one of their greatest chefs d'œuvre, Revolver.
Despite the name, the disc doesn't advertises violence. Conversely, it's the first Fab Four's work to shift towards the nascent hippie strand - songs like Tomorrow Never Knows clearly show this: "turn off your mind".
The Seleção worship, sometimes, is enough to remember the (irreproducible) Beatlemania. It's curious that 1966, in this sense, is a rite of passage for the Liverpool quartet and also for the Canarinho Team.
Revolver is a disc that contains, still, elements of the first phase of the band, with platonic love songs, like Here, There and Everywhere, but already shows what, in the future, would become reality in Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Abbey Road and Let it Be: the maturity and the swan song of the greatest pop band ever.
The Seleção played, then, close to the Abbey Road Studios, in London. And that World Cup was, also, a transition moment in its "work": many players of the "Twist and Shout" phase were still there - like Pelé, Garrincha and Bellini -, but also were present those of the "Yellow Submarine" phase - Tostão and Jairzinho -, that would be enshrined in the Azteca Stadium, four years later.
And that would spread their fame Across the Universe.
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