Nowhere Man (EP)

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{{Infobox album

| name = Nowhere Man

| type = ep

| artist = the Beatles

| cover = Nowhere Man-The Beatles.jpg

| alt =

| released = 8 July 1966

| recorded = 13 October – 11 November 1965

| studio = EMI, London

| venue =

| genre = Rock, folk rock

| length = 11:11

| label = Parlophone

| producer = George Martin

| chronology = The Beatles EP

| prev_title = Yesterday

| prev_year = 1966

| next_title = Magical Mystery Tour

| next_year = 1967

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/nowhere-man-ep-mw0001444887|first=Bruce|last=Eder|title=The Beatles Nowhere Man [EP]|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=24 August 2018}}

}}

Nowhere Man is the 12th extended play (EP){{cite book|editor-last=Womack |editor-first=Kenneth|year=2009|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles|location=Cambridge, UK|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-68976-2|page=287}} by the English rock band the Beatles. It was released on 8 July 1966.{{cite book|last=Miles|first=Barry|title=The Beatles Diary Volume 1: The Beatles Years|year=2001|publisher=Omnibus Press|location=London|isbn=0-7119-8308-9|page=236}} It includes four songs from their album Rubber Soul, which had been released in December 1965.{{cite book|last1=Castleman|first1=Harry|last2=Podrazik|first2=Walter J.|title=All Together Now: The First Complete Beatles Discography 1961–1975|publisher=Ballantine Books|location=New York, NY|year=1976|isbn=0-345-25680-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/alltogethernowfi0000cast/page/54 54–55]|url=https://archive.org/details/alltogethernowfi0000cast/page/54}} The EP was only issued in mono, with the Parlophone catalogue number GEP 8952.{{cite book|last=Everett|first=Walter|title=The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men Through Rubber Soul|year=2001|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York, NY|isbn=0-19-514105-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/beatlesasmusicia00ever/page/336 336]|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesasmusicia00ever/page/336}}

In the UK, Nowhere Man peaked at number 4 on the national EP chart compiled by Record Retailer.{{cite book|first=Alex|last=Bagirov |title=The Anthology of the Beatles Records |year=2008|publisher=Something Books |location=Rostock |isbn= 978-3-936300-44-4|page=113}} In the United States, the title track and "Drive My Car" had been omitted from Capitol Records' version of Rubber Soul and were instead included on the US and Canada album Yesterday and Today.{{cite book|last=Kruth|first=John|title=This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul, Fifty Years On|year=2015|publisher=Backbeat Books|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=978-1-61713-573-6|pages=7, 108}} "Nowhere Man" was also issued as a single in the US in February 1966.{{cite book|last=Rodriguez|first=Robert|title=Revolver: How the Beatles Reimagined Rock 'n' Roll|year=2012|publisher=Backbeat Books|location=Milwaukee, WI|isbn=978-1-61713-009-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=farlJScWrTMC |page=240}} Another track from the EP, "Michelle", similarly became a hit in some European countries and in New Zealand.

Reviewing Nowhere Man in their book The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, music critics Roy Carr and Tony Tyler wrote: "The issue of this EP reflects a cute tactic of the mid-'sixties record companies: find out which were the most popular tracks from the artists' last LP – and presto! Another Extended-Player. An accountants' move."{{cite book|last1=Carr|first1=Roy|last2=Tyler|first2=Tony|title=The Beatles: An Illustrated Record|publisher=Trewin Copplestone Publishing|location=London|year=1978|isbn=0-450-04170-0|page=52}} In his review for AllMusic, Bruce Eder says:

It only got better than this if one bought the album ... The packaging and art were still cool, but the group's songs and albums were now so substantial (and the latter also selling so well) that the EP was reduced to irrelevancy. Additionally, the Beatles were soon going to start releasing records that were a lot harder to pair together and were also going to take a lot more control over how their work was packaged and delivered.