THE BEATLES - "White Album" [50th Anniv. Deluxe Ed.](180g 4LPs w/ 'Esher Demos')

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THE BEATLES - The White Album - 50th Anniversary Limited Deluxe Edition (4 180g Vinyl LPs with 2018 stereo mix, 'Esher Demos,' 16-page book and lift top box, 2018)
In November 1968, millions of double LPs were shipped to record stores worldwide ahead of that tumultuous year’s most anticipated music event: the November 22nd release of THE BEATLES (soon to be better known as ‘The White Album’). With their ninth studio album, The Beatles took the world on a whole new trip, side one blasting off with the exhilarating rush of a screaming jet escorting Paul McCartney’s punchy, exuberant vocals on “Back In The U.S.S.R.” “Dear Prudence” came next, John Lennon warmly beckoning his friend and all of us to “look around.” George Harrison imparted timeless wisdom in “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” singing, “With every mistake we must surely be learning.” Ringo Starr’s “Don’t Pass Me By” marked his first solo songwriting credit on a Beatles album. 
For 50 years, ‘The White Album’ has invited its listeners to venture forth and explore the breadth and ambition of its music, delighting and inspiring each new generation in turn.   On November 9, 2018 The Beatles released a suite of lavishly presented ‘White Album’ packages (Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe). The album’s 30 tracks are newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio.    
“We had left Sgt. Pepper’s band to play in his sunny Elysian Fields and were now striding out in new directions without a map,” says Paul McCartney in his written introduction for the new ‘White Album’ releases.   This is the first time The BEATLES (‘White Album’) has been remixed and presented with additional demos and session recordings. The album’s sweeping new edition follows 2017’s universally acclaimed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition releases. To create the new stereo and 5.1 surround audio mixes for ‘The White Album,’ Martin and Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios in London. All the new ‘White Album’ releases include Martin’s new stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original four-track and eight-track session tapes. Martin’s new mix is guided by the album’s original stereo mix produced by his father, George Martin.   “In remixing ‘The White Album,’ we’ve tried to bring you as close as possible to The Beatles in the studio,” explains Giles Martin in his written introduction for the new edition. “We’ve peeled back the layers of the ‘Glass Onion’ with the hope of immersing old and new listeners into one of the most diverse and inspiring albums ever made.”
This Deluxe Edition also includes the legendary Esher Demos, recorded at Harrison’s house in Esher, Surrey. Included from those sessions are “Back In the U.S.S.R.,” “Sexy Sadie” and “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da,” as well as “Not Guilty,” a Harrison-penned song which didn’t make the White Album, but was re-recorded for his self-titled album in 1979. He also played “Child of Nature,” another song that didn’t make the cut, but which would later evolve (with completely different lyrics) into Lennon’s classic solo song, “Jealous Guy.” Intellectually, it’s interesting to listen to these tracks; they give insight to how the White Album was made.  It’s almost like hearing the Beatles if they were around long enough to do an episode of MTV Unplugged, albeit a bit less polished and a lot more fun than that. 
Tracklist: 
The Beatles: A1 Back In The U.S.S.R. A2 Dear Prudence A3 Glass Onion A4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da A5 Wild Honey Pie A6 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill A7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps A8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun   B1 Martha My Dear B2 I'm So Tired B3 Blackbird B4 Piggies B5 Rocky Raccoon B6 Don't Pass Me By B7 Why Don't We Do It In The Road? B8 I Will B9 Julia C1 Birthday C2 Yer Blues C3 Mother Nature's Son C4 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey C5 Sexy Sadie C6 Helter Skelter C7 Long, Long, Long D1 Revolution 1 D2 Honey Pie D3 Savoy Truffle D4 Cry Baby Cry D5 Revolution 9 D6 Good Night
Esher Demos: E1 Back In The U.S.S.R. E2 Dear Prudence E3 Glass Onion E4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da E5 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill E6 While My Guitar Gently Weeps F1 Happiness Is A Warm Gun F2 I'm So Tired F3 Blackbird F4 Piggies F5 Rocky Raccoon F6 Julia F7 Yer Blues   G1 Mother Nature's Son G2 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey G3 Sexy Sadie G4 Revolution G5 Honey Pie G6 Cry Baby Cry G7 Sour Milk Sea H1 Junk H2 Child Of Nature H3 Circles H4 Mean Mr. Mustard H5 Polythene Pam H6 Not Guilty H7 What's The New Mary Jane
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