1965 is often seen as ground zero for rock music. It’s a commonly held view and one which does a disservice to the previous two years, but there’s also a grain of truth to the theory.

In the few months between Help! and Rubber Soul, Dylan went electric and released the first fruits of his new plugged-in status, the Rolling Stones had begun to write their own material and the Who had burst onto the musical scene.

Rubber Soul - the songs

The album opens with “Drive My Car”, a mid-tempo rocker with mouth-watering vocals from Lennon and McCartney in what would turn out to be one of the last instances of such a close collaboration. The song itself marks the point where the band moved beyond simple boy meets girl tunes for good and take the step up to a level no other band has ever managed to equal. The “beep-beep yeahs!” of the fade-out continue to be heard on radio traffic bulletins to this day.

It was with the album’s second track, “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)” that the listening public got the first hint of the new direction the band were taking. It’s so unlike anything that had gone before in the Beatles' cannon that it momentarily takes our collective breath away.

Looking back, as is so often the case with the Beatles, it is hard to imagine just what a shock the song must have been back in late 1965. Famous for the first use of sitar on a pop record, the track (not so subtly) details one of Lennon’s affairs. The song itself is simply lovely while at the same time adding layers of mystique to the band’s image. It also contains one of the great understatements in the history of rock lyrics: “She told me she worked in the morning and started to laugh/I told her I didn’t...”

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