The Beatles "White Album" 2x LP SEBX-11841 EX John Lennon Paul McCartney
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The Beatles "White Album" 2x LP Capitol Records SEBX-11841 (US)
Vinyl is EX, Jacket is VG++
Includes Poster and Portaits
Pressed on White Vinyl!
Track Listing:
A1 Back In The U.S.S.R. 2:45 A2 Dear Prudence 4:00 A3 Glass Onion 2:10 A4 Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:10 A5 Wild Honey Pie 1:02 A6 The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 3:05 A7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps Guitar [Uncredited] – Eric Clapton Written-By – Harrison* 4:46 A8 Happiness Is A Warm Gun 2:47 B1 Martha My Dear 2:28 B2 I'm So Tired 2:01 B3 Blackbird 2:20 B4 Piggies Written-By – Harrison* 2:04 B5 Rocky Racoon 3:33 B6 Don't Pass Me By Written-By – Starkey* 3:52 B7 Why Don't We Do It In The Road? 1:42 B8 I Will 1:46 B9 Julia 2:57 C1 Birthday 2:40 C2 Yer Blues 4:01 C3 Mother Nature's Son 2:46 C4 Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey 2:25 C5 Sexy Sadie 3:15 C6 Helter Skelter 4:30 C7 Long, Long, Long Written-By – Harrison* 3:08 D1 Revolution 4:13 D2 Honey Pie 2:42 D3 Savoy Truffle Written-By – Harrison* 2:55 D4 Cry Baby Cry 3:11 D5 Revolution 9 8:15 D6 Good Night 3:14The Beatles is the ninth official album by English rock group the Beatles, a double album released in 1968. It is also commonly known as "The White Album", as it has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed (and, on the early LP and CD releases, a serial number) on its plain white sleeve.
The album 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. Returning to the studio, the group recorded from May to October 1968, only to have conflict and dissent drive the group members apart. Ringo Starr quit the band for a brief time, leaving Paul McCartney to play drums on two tracks. Many of the songs were "solo" recordings, or at least by less than the full group, as each individual member began to explore his own talent.
Upon its release in November 1968, the album received mixed reviews from music critics, who criticized its satirical songs as unimportant and apolitical amid a turbulent political and social climate. However, it reached number 1 on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States. The album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and has since been viewed by critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.
The Beatles were at the peak of their global influence and visibility in late 1968. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released the previous year, had enjoyed a combination of commercial success, critical acclaim, and immense cultural influence that had previously seemed inconceivable for a pop release. Time, for instance, had written in 1967 that Sgt. Pepper's constituted a "historic departure in the progress of music—any music," while Timothy Leary, in a widely quoted assessment of the same period, declared that the band were prototypes of "evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species." The Beatles was the first album that the group undertook following the death of their manager, Brian Epstein, and the first released by their own record label, Apple.
Most of the songs were conceived during a transcendental meditation course with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India in the spring of 1968. The retreat had required long periods of meditation, initially conceived by the band as a spiritual respite from all worldly endeavours—a chance, in John Lennon's words, to "get away from everything." Both Lennon and Paul McCartney had quickly found themselves in songwriting mode, however, often meeting "clandestinely in the afternoons in each other's rooms" to review the new work. "Regardless of what I was supposed to be doing," Lennon would later recall, "I did write some of my best songs there." Close to forty new compositions had emerged in Rishikesh, twenty-three of which would be recorded in very rough form at Kinfauns, George Harrison's home in Esher, in May 1968.
The Beatles had left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with Starr and then McCartney departing, and Lennon and Harrison departing together later. According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip. Shortly after he decided to leave, Lennon wrote a song called "Maharishi" which included the lyrics, "Maharishi/You little twat"; the song became "Sexy Sadie". According to several authors, Alexis Mardas (aka "Magic Alex") deliberately engineered these rumours because he was bent on undermining the Maharishi's influence over each Beatle. In a 1980 interview, Lennon acknowledged that the Maharishi was the inspiration for the song: "I just called him 'Sexy Sadie'."
The album's working title, A Doll's House, was changed when the English progressive rock band Family released the similarly titled Music in a Doll's House earlier that year.
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