THE BEATLES LP WHITE ALBUM TOP OPENING MONO UK 1ST COMP

	£		82
	$		109

Original UK first MONO pressing on the dark green Apple record label. The catalogue number is PMC 7068/9.

MATRIX NUMBERS ARE AS FOLLOWS

XEX 709-1
XEX 710-1
XEX 711-1
XEX 712-1

STAMPER MARKS ARE AS FOLLOWS:-

P AT THREE O'CLOCK AND A 1 AT NINE O'CLOCK ON SIDE 1.
RH AT THREE O;CLOCK AND A 7 AT NINE O'CLOCK ON SIDE 2.
H AT THREE O'CLOCK AND A 1 AT NINE O'CLOCK ON SIDE 3.
P AT THREE O;CLOCK AND A 1 AT EIGHT O;CLOCK ON SIDE 4.

SIDE 1

LABEL: EXCELLENT -

Clean and tidy with no tears no rips no writing. A few light spindle marks but only seen in a certain light. No EMI text

DISC VISUAL VERY GOOD +

A few light sleeve scuffs and hairlines. The disc lies flat on the turntable with no dishing or warping..

SIDE 2

LABEL

Clean and tidy with no tears no rips no writing. A few light spindle marks but only seen in a certain light. No EMI text.

DISC VISUAL VERY GOOD -

Ther is a mark 1" in that plays with some pops and a couple of light marks. The disc lies flat on the turntable with no dishing or warping..

SIDE 3

LABEL

Clean and tidy with no tears no rips no writing. A few light spindle marks but only seen in a certain light. No EMI text.

DISC VISUAL VERY GOOD

A few light sleeve scuffs and hairlines. The disc lies flat on the turntable with no dishing or warping..

SIDE 4

LABEL

Clean and tidy with no tears no rips no writing. A few light spindle marks but only seen in a certain light. No EMI text.

DISC VISUAL VERY GOOD

A few light sleeve scuffs and hairlines. The disc lies flat on the turntable with no dishing or warping..

COVER

Front: very good ++ top opening number 0158159

Rear: very good ++

No stains a few line creases

Gatefold

No stains a few line crease. Absolutely nothing serious.

Spine

VERY GOOD ++ Wide span rare

INNERS

Two black die cut inners. No serious problems here.

PHOTOS

4 coloured photos. John Lennon has 3 pin hole two in top corners and one in the middle bottom all excellent -

POSTER

No pinholes no tears no writing couple light folds. Nothing serious. 5" mark of sellotape middle part of edge of poster

Release date 22nd November 1968
Total running time 93:09
The Beatles tenth official album release, their FIRST double. The proper name of the album is simply, "The Beatles", but almost immediately it became known affectionately as "The White Album" due to it's packaging. What is true, is that this was the first release by The Beatles which contains purely solo material. In fact, some tracks are even recorded that way, for example, "Julia" was a solo Lennon recording - his first ever. Once again The Beatles had over a quarter of a million advance orders, and of course went straight to number 1. This was the first double album EVER to get to the top slot where it stayed for seven weeks in a row. It sold so many, that once again The Beatles also made the singles chart, consequently the ONLY double album to ever enter that chart. By the end of the year, just over a month later, the white album had sold over 4,000,000 copies worldwide, and by the end of 1970 global sales were around 6.5 million. At that time this was the biggest selling double album of all time. The sleeve design was by Richard Hamilton, who suggested the minimalistic approach and the consecutively numbered sleeves which would give a limited edition feel to it. He also came up with the montage idea for the large free poster, which included the lyrics on it's rear. The four free colour prints were taken by John Kelly. Original copies also have a top opening sleeve, and black paper inner sleeves.

Side 1

Back In The U.S.S.R. Lennon-McCartney Recorded 22nd August 1968 - 5 takes Overdubs 23rd August 1968 onto take 5, creating take 6 Final mix - take 6. Recorded by a three-piece band as Ringo had walked out. Paul played the drum part. 2:45
Dear Prudence Lennon-McCartney Recorded 28th August 1968 in 1 take ... with overdubs on the next two days. Final mix - take 1. 3:54
Glass Onion Lennon-McCartney Recorded 11th September 1968 - 34 takes Overdubs 12/13/16th September 1968 onto take 33 Final overdubs 10th October 1968 onto take 33 Final mix - take 33. 2:18
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da Lennon-McCartney Recorded 3rd July 1968 - 7 takes Vocal overdubs 4th July 1968 onto take 4 creating "new" take 5 Overdubs 5th July 1968 onto take 5 Re-make 8th July 1968 - 13 takes (1-13) Re-Re-make 9th July 1968 - 2 takes (20-21) Then take 13 returned to, and overdubbed to become take 22 ! Overdubs 11th July 1968 onto take 22 creating takes 23 & 24 New lead vocal 15th July 1968 onto take 23 Final mix - take 23. 3:07
Wild Honey Pie Lennon-McCartney Recorded 20th August 1968 - 1 take Final mix - take 1. 0:52
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill Lennon-McCartney Recorded 8th October 1968 - 3 takes Final mix - take 3. 3:13
While My Guitar Gently Weeps Harrison Recorded 25th July 1968 - 1 take (Demo acoustic version) Recorded 16th August 1968 - 15 takes (1-15) Overdubs 3rd September 1968 creating take 16 ... this version scrapped New version recorded 5th September 1968 - 28 takes (17-44) Eric Clapton's overdub 6th September 1968 onto take 25 Final mix - take 25. 4:44
Happiness Is A Warm Gun Lennon-McCartney Recorded 23rd September 1968 - 45 takes (backing tracks only) Recording 24th September 1968 - 25 takes (46-70) (still backing tracks only !) Vocal overdubs 25th September 1968 onto takes 53 & 65 combined (known as "take 65") Final mix - take 65. 2:42

Side 2

Martha My Dear Lennon-McCartney Recorded 4th October 1968 - 1 take Overdubs 5th October 1968 onto take 1 Final mix - take 1. 2:29
I'm So Tired Lennon-McCartney Recorded 8th October 1968 - 14 takes Final mix - take 14. 2:03
Blackbird Lennon-McCartney Recorded 11th June 1968 in 32 takes Final mix - take 32. 2:18
Piggies Harrison Recorded 19th September 1968 - 11 takes (backing track only) Vocal overdubs 20th September 1968 creating take 12 Final overdubs 10th October 1968 onto take 12 Final mix - take 12. 2:04
Rocky Raccoon Lennon-McCartney Recorded 15th August 1968 in 10 takes Final mix - take 10. 3:33
Don't Pass Me By Starkey Recorded 5th June 1968 - 6 takes Overdubs 6th June 1968 onto take 5 creating take 7 Overdubs 12th July 1968 onto take 7 Starting edit piece recorded 22nd July 1968 Final mix - take 7 + start edit piece 3:50
Why Don't We Do It In The Road Lennon-McCartney Recorded 9th October 1968 - 5 takes Overdubs 10th October 1968 onto take 5 creating take 6 Final mix - take 6. 1:40
I Will Lennon-McCartney Recorded 16th September 1968 - 67 takes Take 19 - included "Can You Take Me Back Where I Came From" Take 35 - included "Step Inside Love", "Los Paranoious", and "The Way You Look Tonight" Take 65 was overdubbed to take 68 Overdubbed 17th September 1968 onto take 68 Final mix - take 68. 1:44
Julia Lennon-McCartney Recorded 13th October 1968 - 3 takes Final mix - take 3. 2:53

Side 3

Birthday Lennon-McCartney Recorded 18th September 1968 - 22 takes Final mix - take 22. 2:42
Yer Blues Lennon-McCartney Recorded 13th August 1968 - 17 takes Overdubs 14th August onto takes 16/17 Final mix - takes 16/17. 4:00
Mother Nature's Son Lennon-McCartney Recorded 9th August 1968 - 25 takes Overdubs 20th August 1968 onto take 24 creating take 26 Final mix - take 26. 2:47
Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey Lennon-McCartney Recorded 27th June 1968 - 8 takes Overdubs 1st July 1968 onto take 8 creating takes 9 & 10 Overdubs onto take 10 creating takes 11 & 12 Final mix - take 12. 2:24
Sexy Sadie Lennon-McCartney Recorded 19th July 1968 - 21 takes Remade 24th July 1968 - 23 takes (25-47) Re-remade 13th August 1968 12 takes (numbered 100-111 !) Overdubs 21st August 1968 onto take 107, creating takes 112-117 Final mix - take 117. 3:15
Helter Skelter Lennon-McCartney Recorded 18th July 1968 - 3 takes Re-make 9th September 1968 - 18 takes (4-21) Overdubs 10th September 1968 onto take 21 Final mix - take 21 4:29
Long, Long, Long Harrison Recorded 7th October 1968 - 67 takes Overdubs 8th October 1968 onto take 67 Overdubs 9th October 1968 onto take 67 Final mix - take 67. 3:03

Side 4

Time Revolution I Lennon-McCartney The FIRST track recorded for the album. Recorded 30th May 1968 - 16 takes (numbered 1-10, & 13-18) Overdubs 31st May 1968 onto take 18 creating take 19 Overdubs 4th June 1968 onto take 19 creating take 20 Overdubs 21st June 1968 from take 20 creating takes 21 & 22 Final mix - take 22. 4:14
Honey Pie Lennon-McCartney Recorded 1st October 1968 - 1 take Overdubs 2nd October 1968 onto take 1 Overdubs 4th October 1968 onto take 1 Final mix - take 1. 2:41
Savoy Truffle Harrison Recorded 3rd October 1968 - 1 take Vocal overdub 5th October 1968 onto take 1 Overdubs 11th October 1968 onto take 1 Final mix - take 1. 2:54
Cry Baby Cry Lennon-McCartney Recorded 16th July 1968 - 12 takes Overdubs 18th July 1968 onto take 12 Final mix - take 12. 2:34
Revolution 9 Lennon-McCartney Bits extracted from Take 18 of "Revolution I" 6th June 1968 - more creative add-ins 10th June 1968 - more creative add-ins 11th June 1968 - more creative add-ins 20th June 1968 - final creative add-ins 25th June 1968 - Completed. The timing of 8:47, reflects 27 seconds of "Can You Take Me Back", plus 8:20 8:47
Good Night Lennon-McCartney Recorded 28th June 1968 - 5 takes Recorded 2nd July 1968 10 takes (6-15) Remade 22nd July 1968 in 12 takes (23-34) Final mix - take 34. 3:10

There are numerous Mono/Stereo Differences This release is probably the most essential to have in both mono and stereo, as almost every track has some difference. But the following thirteen tracks have the most marked variations. "Back In The U.S.S.R." The airplane overdubs occur in different places on the mono and stereo versions. "Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da" The stereo version has hand-clapping during the intro, the mono version does not. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" The stereo version has some vocal sounds from George at the end, the mono version does not. "Blackbird" The bird sound effects are quite different between the stereo and the mono release. "Piggies" The pig sound effects are quite different between the stereo and the mono release. "Don't Pass Me By" The mono version is much faster than the stereo, and therefore is shorter. The violin sounds at the end are markedly different. "Why Don't We Do It In The Road" The stereo version has hand-clapping during the intro, the mono version does not. "I Will" The stereo version has more prominent bongos. "Birthday" The stereo version has extra vocals at the end of the second chorus. "Sexy Sadie" The stereo version has two taps on the tambourine during the intro, the mono version only has one. "Helter Skelter" The stereo version has a fade-out/fade-in dummy ending with Ringo's shout of "I've got blisters on my fingers", the mono version does not ! ... this makes the stereo version almost a minute longer. "Long, Long, Long" The stereo version is fine, but on the mono, George's double-tracked vocal is embarrassingly out of synch. 

COVER DESCRIPTION EXPLANATION
 
V/G ++ = Minimal wear & tear ( light creases & ringwear, minor scuffs, but generally OK )

V/G + = Obvious creases, ringwear, some edge wear

V/G = Obvious in a well used state with grubby marks heavy creases & ring wear, split seams edge wear Etc. ( A WEE BIT TATTY ) LOL :-)


VINYL DESCRIPTION EXPLANATION

V/G++ = Light surface marks, scuffs, but no serious visible flaws.

V/G + = Marks visible scratches, scuffs, spindle marks no major flaws.

V/G = Will be well played lots of heavy marks, scuffs spindle wear, will definitely have surface noise ( A WEE BIT ROUGH ) lol :-)


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