 The album's title, like that of "Rubber Soul", is a pun, referring to both a kind of handgun and the "revolving" motion of a record as it plays on a turntable.Gould views the title as a "McLuhanesque pun", since, more so than on their previous albums, the focus of "Revolver" appears to rotate from one Beatle to another with each song.The group had originally wanted to call the album "Abracadabra", until they discovered that another band had already used it.