THE BEATLES White Album LP Vinyl Double Vintage 1968
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THE BEATLES White Album LP Vinyl Double Vintage 1968 - Apple label First UK pressing
Classic double album in very good condition. Both LPs and gatefold cover in very good condition.
Includes the original lyric sheet which turns into a poster and the four glossy A4 pix of the Fab 4 all in excellent condition. The cover is clean, laminated and embossed with 'The Beatles', the number is 235890 - Stereo. Apple Records – PCS 7067 & PCS 7068PCS 7067 Side #1 XEX 709 – 1
Side #2 XEX 710 – 2
PCS 7068 Side #3 XEX 711 – 1
Side #4 XEX 712 – 1
The Beatles is the ninth official British album and the fifteenth American album by the English rock group The Beatles, a double album released in 1968. It is commonly known as The White Album as it has no graphics or text other than the band's name (and, on the early LP and CD releases, a serial number) on its plain white sleeve. The album was the first the Beatles undertook following the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, and the first released by their own record label, Apple. Originally entitled A Doll's House, the title was changed when the British progressive rock band Family released the similarly titled Music in a Doll's House earlier that year.
The Beatles was written and recorded during a period of turmoil for the group. After visiting the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India and having a particularly productive songwriting session in early 1968, the group returned to the studio for recording from May to October 1968, only to have conflict and dissent drive the group members apart. Drummer Ringo Starr quit the band for a brief time, leaving bassist Paul McCartney to perform drums on some of the album's songs.
Upon release in November 1968, the album received mixed to positive reviews and reached the number one spot on the charts in the United Kingdom and United States. The album is notable for the eclectic nature of its songs, which has divided critics in evaluating the album's legacy. In 2003, the album was ranked number 10 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".
The album's sleeve was designed by Richard Hamilton, a notable pop artist who had organised a Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Tate Gallery the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name was discreetly embossed slightly below the middle of the album's right side, and the cover also featured a unique stamped serial number, "to create," in Hamilton's words, "theironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies. Indeed, the artist intended the cover to resemble the "look" of conceptual art, an emerging movement in contemporary art at the time.
The album's inside packaging included a poster, the lyrics to the songs, and a set of photographs taken by John Kelly during the autumn of 1968 that have themselves become iconic. This is the only sleeve of a Beatles studio album not to show the members of the band on the front.
Disc 1 No. Title Lead vocals[41] Length 1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." McCartney 2:43 2. "Dear Prudence" Lennon 3:56 3. "Glass Onion" Lennon 2:17 4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" McCartney 3:08 5. "Wild Honey Pie" McCartney 1:01 6. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" Lennon 3:05 7. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (George Harrison) Harrison 4:45 8. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" Lennon 2:43 9. "Martha My Dear" McCartney 2:28 10. "I'm So Tired" Lennon 2:03 11. "Blackbird" McCartney 2:18 12. "Piggies" (Harrison) Harrison 2:04 13. "Rocky Raccoon" McCartney 3:41 14. "Don't Pass Me By" (Richard Starkey) Starr 3:42 15. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" McCartney 1:41 16. "I Will" McCartney 1:46 17. "Julia" Lennon 2:54All songs written and composed by Lennon/McCartney, except where noted.
Disc 2 No. Title Lead vocals Length 1. "Birthday" McCartney with Lennon 2:42 2. "Yer Blues" Lennon 4:01 3. "Mother Nature's Son" McCartney 2:48 4. "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey" Lennon 2:24 5. "Sexy Sadie" Lennon 3:15 6. "Helter Skelter" McCartney 4:29 7. "Long, Long, Long" (Harrison) Harrison 3:04 8. "Revolution 1" Lennon 4:15 9. "Honey Pie" McCartney 2:41 10. "Savoy Truffle" (Harrison) Harrison 2:54 11. "Cry Baby Cry" Lennon, with McCartney 3:11 12. "Revolution 9" Speaking from Lennon, Harrison & Yoko Ono 8:13 13. "Good Night" Starr 3:11
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