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TITLE:  THE BEATLES-WHITE ALBUM

Label: APPLE records

Catalogue number: PCS  7067/PCS 7068

The matrices: YEX 709-1 (GML)

                      YEX 710-1 (GGA)

                      YEX 711-1 (5-RT)

                      YEX 712-1 (G-LT)

Year : 1968

NUMBERED: No 0336280

1st press

Details of the specific copy: Complete copy, Top  opening 1968  issue. First month copy.

 

condition: (VISUAL GRADING , but also playing the album with 1.5 gramms stylus)   The Sleeve : EXCELLENT    Front Side  : very small and light bends on the corners. Otherise perfect, not any crasing,                                not any yellowing sign, not any writing. Emposed letter /number pergfectly clear.

                                     

  Back Side : Excellent as well, not any wear, very light yelowing or creasing.   Inners Side: Just perfect, not any writing, not any wear, or yelowing or creasing.   Spine: perfect, no edgewear, no bends , fully readbale.   Edges; No any edgewear or bend. perfect The Labels: All labels are very clear with no spindle marks or writing or creasing.

"Sold in U.K. subject.to resale price conditions, see price lists" text on all four sides"

The Vinyls : Both vinyls looks like have been played carefully EXCELLENT . Runs smoothly no skips or pos and Sound really great. Clear sound no Noise and only very few lights clicks should be excpect on the slowest parts. Both vinyls are staright no wrapping          A side: EX Very few paper scuffs and even fewer fade out hairline scratches.                      No hard scarthes at all.        B Side: EX Very few paper scuffs and even fewer fade out hairline scratches.                      No hard scarthes at all.          C side: EX+ Very few paper scuffs and even fewer fade out hairline scratches.                      No hard scarthes at all.          D Side: EX Very few paper scuffs and even fewer fade out hairline scratches.                      No hard scarthes at all. The inner sleeves: Black Inner Sleeve in nice condition light creasing and edgewear! The Poster: perfect condition , glossy paper Uk press Poster. The Photos: complete set of 4 pictures .perfect. The separator:   1  

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THE HISTORY:

The Beatles (album) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from ) "The White Album" redirects here. For other uses, see . The Beatles by Released 22 November 1968Recorded 30 May – 14 October 1968, and , ,  Length 93:35Language , ,  Professional reviews              (10.0/10.0)            chronology
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Released: 8 November 1976 (US) Original cover The original vinyl copies, first released in 1968, had the band's name embossed crossways onto a white background. These pressings were also numbered.

The Beatles is the ninth official British  and the fifteenth American album by , a  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,  ( is listed as a movie soundtrack). Originally entitled A Doll's House, the title was changed when the British  band  released the similarly titled  earlier that year.

The Beatles was written and recorded during a period of turmoil for the group. After visiting the  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  quit the band for a brief time, leaving bassist  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 #1 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. Still, The Beatles is regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock history. In 2003, the album was ranked number 10 on  magazine's list of "".

[]Composition

Most of the songs were conceived during a  course with  in ,  in the spring of 1968. Although the retreat, which had required long periods of meditation, was initially conceived by the band as a spiritual respite from all worldly endeavours—a chance, in 's words, to "get away from everything" — both Lennon and  had quickly found themselves in songwriting mode, 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 laid down in very rough form at , ’s home in Esher, in May of 1968.

The Beatles had left Rishikesh before the end of the course, with  and then McCartney departing first, 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 , 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 "". According to several authors,  (aka "Magic Alex") deliberately engineered these rumours because he was bent on undermining the Maharishi's influence over each Beatle. Lennon himself, in a 1980 interview, acknowledged that the Maharishi was the inspiration for the song: "I just called him 'Sexy Sadie.."

[]Recording Beatles was recorded between 30 May 1968 and 14 October 1968, largely at , with some sessions at . Although productive, the sessions were reportedly undisciplined and sometimes fractious, and they took place at a time when tensions were growing within the group.[] Concurrent with the recording of this album, The Beatles were launching their new multimedia business corporation , an enterprise that proved to be a source of significant stress for the band.[]

The sessions for The Beatles marked the first appearance in the studio of Lennon's new girlfriend and artistic partner, , who would thereafter be a more or less constant presence at all Beatles sessions. Prior to Ono's appearance on the scene, the individual Beatles had been very insular during recording sessions, with influence from outsiders strictly limited. McCartney's girlfriend at the time, , was also present at some of the recording sessions.

Author  reports that The Beatles held their first and only 24-hour recording/producing session near the end of the creation of The Beatles, during which occurred the final mixing and sequencing for the album. The session was attended by Lennon, McCartney, and producer .

[][]Instrumental contributions

According to Mark Lewisohn, McCartney played drums on "" because Starr had left the group during the period when the song was being recorded. Lewisohn also reports that, in the case of "", also recorded during Starr's absence, the three remaining Beatles each made contributions on bass and drums, with the result that those parts may be composite tracks played by Lennon, McCartney and/or Harrison. As of 2008, the actual musician/instrument lineup on the track remains disputed.[]

[]Other musicians

 played lead guitar on Harrison's "". Harrison explains in The Beatles Anthology that Clapton's presence temporarily alleviated the studio tension and that all band members were on their best behaviour during his time with the band in the studio. Harrison, who had invited Clapton to the sessions, soon reciprocated by collaborating with Clapton on the song "" for last album .

Clapton was not the only outside musician to sit in on the sessions.  provided electric piano for the single cut of "" (recorded during these sessions); Hopkins also provided acoustic piano on a number of tracks. Several horns were also recorded on the album version of "Revolution".[] "" also features the horn section.  played a bluegrass fiddle on "",and a team of orchestral players and background singers appeared on "Good Night" (which was Beatle-free except for Ringo's vocal).

[]Technical advances

The sessions for The Beatles were notable for the band's formal transition from 4-track to  recording. As work on the album began, Abbey Road Studios possessed, but had yet to install, an 8-track machine that had supposedly been sitting in a storage room for months. This was in accordance with EMI's policy of testing and customising new gear, sometimes for months, before putting it into use in the studios. The Beatles recorded "" and "Dear Prudence" at Trident Studios in central London, which had an 8-track recorder. When they learned about EMI's 8-track recorder, they insisted on using it, and engineers Ken Scott and Dave Harries took the machine (without authorisation from the studio chiefs) into the Number 2 recording studio at Abbey Road for the band's use.

[]Songs

Although most of the songs on any given Beatles album are usually credited to the  songwriting team, that description is often misleading, and rarely more so than on The Beatles. With this album, each of the four band members began to showcase the range and depth of his individual songwriting talents, and to display styles that would be carried over to his eventual solo career. Indeed, some songs that the individual Beatles were working on during this period eventually were released on solo albums.[] These include Lennon's "" and "", eventually reworked as "Jealous Guy"; McCartney's "" and ""; and Harrison's "" and "Circles".[]

Many of the songs on the album display experimentation with unlikely musical genres, borrowing directly from such sources as 1930s dance-hall music (in "Honey Pie"), classical  (in "Piggies"), the sensibilities of  and  (in ""), and the sentimentality of  (in "Good Night"). Such diversity was quite unprecedented in global  in 1968, and the album's sprawling approach provoked (and continues to provoke) both praise and criticism from observers. "", in particular, a densely layered eight-minute-and-thirteen-second sound collage, has attracted bewilderment and disapproval from both fans and music critics over the years.

The only western instrument available to the group during their Indian visit was the , and thus most of the songs on The Beatles were written and first performed on that instrument.[] Some of these songs remained acoustic on The Beatles (notably "Rocky Raccoon", "Blackbird", "I Will" and "") and were recorded in the studio either solo, or by only part of the group.

[]Compositions not included

A number of songs were recorded in demo form for possible inclusion but were not incorporated as part of the album. These included "" and "" (both of which would be used for the medley on ); "Child of Nature" (recorded with drastically different lyrics as "Jealous Guy" for Lennon's ), "Jubilee" (later retitled "Junk" and released on McCartney's first solo LP); "Etcetera" (a McCartney composition later recorded by the Black Dyke Mills Band as "Thingumybob"); "" (completed in 1969 for the  LP); "" (which ended up on Abbey Road); and "" (which Harrison gave to friend and Apple artist  for his first LP, Is This What You Want). Other songs recorded for, but ultimately left off The Beatles received significant exposure via bootlegs, notably Harrison's "Circles" and "Not Guilty" (which he would eventually re-record as solo tracks and release on his 1982 album,  and 1979 self-titled album,  respectively) and Lennon's manic "".

[][]Singles

Although "" was not intended to be included on any LP release, it was recorded during the White Album sessions and was released as a stand-alone single before the release of The Beatles. "Hey Jude's" B-side, "Revolution", was an alternate version of the album's "Revolution 1". Lennon had wanted the original version of "Revolution" to be released as a single, but the other three Beatles objected on the grounds that it was too slow. A new, faster version, with heavily distorted guitar and a high-energy keyboard solo from  was recorded, and was relegated to the flip side of "Hey Jude". The resulting release — "Hey Jude" on side A and "Revolution" on side B — emerged as the first release on the Beatles' new  label. It went on to become the best selling of all Beatles' singles in the US.

Four tracks from the "White Album" were released on two American and one British single almost eight years after the original album was released. In the summer 1976, to promote the compilation album, , EMI's  label in the UK and its  label in the US each released a single that contained A and B-sides that appeared on the compilation album. In Britain, Parlophone issued "Back in the U.S.S.R." as the single. (Its B-side was "", which originally appeared on the group's first album, .) In America, Capitol released "Got to Get You Into My Life" (from the group's 1966 album, ) on the A-side, but selected "Helter Skelter," to serve as the flip side. "Helter Skelter" was likely chosen for the B-side because a cover version of the song had been prominently featured in a  about the  murders that had aired on  shortly before the release of Rock 'n' Roll Music. The singles were successful, with "Got to Get You into My Life" hitting No. 7 on the  in the US and "Back in the U.S.S.R." hitting No. 18 on the  chart in Britain. Both records also helped sell Rock 'n' Roll Music, which hit No. 2 in the United States and No. 10 in the UK. With the success of the singles from the compilation album, Capitol followed-up "Got To Get You Into My Life" with the release of another single in November 1976. Instead of taking two more tracks from Rock 'n' Roll Music, however, Capitol selected two "White Album" tracks—"Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as the A-Side, and "Julia" as the B-Side. The "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" single was sold in an individually-numbered white picture sleeve that mimicked the design of the original album. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" did not duplicate the success of its predecessor, however, as it failed to make the Top Forty, stalling out at No. 49 on .

[][]Sleeve A vintage circa-1970 pressing ofThe Beatles. Note the serial number and the embossed, rather than printed, album title.

The album's sleeve was designed by , a notable pop artist who had organised a  retrospective at the  the previous year. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to  vivid cover art for , 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 , "to create," in Hamilton's words, "the  situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies."[] Indeed, the artist intended the cover to resemble the "look" of , an emerging movement in contemporary art at the time. Later  releases in the US showed the title in grey printed (rather than embossed) letters. Early copies on  were also numbered. Later CD releases rendered the album's title in black or grey. The 30th anniversary CD release was done to look like the original album sleeve, with an embossed title and serial number, including a small reproduction of the poster and pictures (see re-issues).

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.

Tape versions of the album did not feature a white cover. Instead, , , and  versions (first issued on two cartridges in early 1969) contained cover artwork that featured a black and white (with no grey) version of the four Kelly photographs. In both the cassette and 8-track versions of the album, the two tapes were sold in a black slip-cover box that bore the title, "The BEATLES" in gold lettering along the front. This departure from the LP's design not only made it difficult for less-informed fans to identify the tape in record stores, but it also led some fans at the time to jokingly refer to the 8-track or cassette not as the "white album" but as the "black tape." In 1988, Capitol/EMI re-issued the 2-cassette version of the album, still with the same cover artwork as the original cassettes — but without the black slip-cover box.

[]Critical reception and legacy

The Beatles were at the peak of their global influence and visibility in late 1968. , 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. , for instance, had written in 1967 that Pepper constituted a "historic departure in the progress of music—any music," while , in a widely quoted assessment of the same period, declared that the band were prototypes of " agents sent by , endowed with mysterious powers to create a new human species." After releasing an album that had delivered such critical, commercial, and generational shockwaves, The Beatles faced the inevitable question of what they could possibly do to top it. The next full-length album, whatever it was, was destined to draw considerable scrutiny. The intervening release of  notwithstanding (released as a double-EP package in the UK), The Beatles represented the group's first major musical statement since Sgt. Pepper, and thus was a highly anticipated event for both the mainstream press and the youth-oriented counterculture movement with which the band had by this time become strongly associated. Expectations, to say the least, were high.

[]Reviews

The reviews were mixed to mostly positive.

, in , wrote shortly after the album's release: "If there is still any doubt that Lennon and McCartney are the greatest songwriters since , then . . . [the album The Beatles] . . . should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and  prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making. . . ." , writing in  on 8 December 1968, described the album as a "major success." Another review in The New York Times, this one by , considered the album "boring beyond belief" and described "more than half the songs" as "profound mediocrities." Alan Smith, in an  review entitled "The Brilliant, the Bad, and the Ugly," derided "Revolution #9" as a "pretentious" example of "idiot immaturity" and, in the following sentence, assigned the benediction "God Bless You, Beatles!" to "most of the rest" of the album.  praises the album but maintains that it has "loads of self-indulgent filler," identifying "Revolution #9" in particular as "justly maligned," and suggests that listeners in the CD era, who can program digital players to skip over unwanted tracks, may have an advantage over the album's original audience.

Some contemporary critics say the album's inclusion of supposedly extraneous material is a part of its appeal. The  review contends that:

"Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything they can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the White Album interesting is its mess."

One important current trend in critical assessments of the album is to draw parallels between the band's disintegrating ensemble and the chaotic events of the tumultuous year in which The Beatles was created, 1968. Along these lines,  observed that:

"(The album) reveals the popping seams of a band that had the pressure of an entire fissuring generational/political gap on its back. Maybe it's because it shows The Beatles at the point where even their music couldn't hide the underlying tensions between John, Paul, George, and Ringo, or maybe because it was (coincidentally?) released at the tail end of a year anyone could agree was the embittered honeymoon's end for the Love Generation, the year when, to borrow from a famous Yeats poem, the center decidedly could not hold ... for whatever reason, The Beatles is still one of the few albums by the Fab Four that resists reflexive canonization, which, along with society's continued fragmentation, keeps the album fresh and surprising."

In 1997, The Beatles was named the 10th greatest album of all time in a 'Music of the Millennium' poll conducted by , ,  and . In 1998,  readers placed it at number 17, while in 2000 the same magazine placed it at number 7 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever.

In 2001, the TV network  named it as the 11th greatest album ever.

It was ranked number 10 in 's list of the  in 2003.

In 2006, the album was chosen by  as one of the 100 best albums of all time.

On the 40th anniversary of the album's release the  issued an unusual review of the album. The official Vatican newspaper, , published a lengthy article which declared that "Forty years later, this album remains a type of magical musical anthology: 30 songs you can go through and listen to at will, certain of finding some pearls that even today remain unparalleled." Forgiving John Lennon's "more popular than Jesus" remark, the paper called the White Album the "creative summit" of the Beatles' career, comparing it favorably to contemporary music and taking note of the now antiquated equipment used, concluding that "a listening experience like that offered by the Beatles is truly rare."

[][]Sales

As it was their first studio album in almost eighteen months (and coming after the blockbuster success of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) expectations were high at time of release of The Beatles. The album debuted straight at #1 in the UK on 1 December 1968, (becoming their third album to do so, after  and ). It spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts (including the entire competitive season), until it was replaced by ' Best of the Seekers on 25 January 1969, dropping to number two. However, the album returned to the top spot the next week, spending an eighth and final week at #1. Then, it spent another four weeks on the Top 10, and then dropped the charts quicker than Sgt. Pepper. The White Album was particularly notable for blocking the Beatles follow-up album, , which debuted (and peaked at) #3 on 8 February 1969, the same week The White Album was dominating the second position on the charts. In all, The Beatles spent 24 weeks on the UK charts (a far cry comparison to the over 200 weeks spent by Sgt. Pepper's).

In the , the album was received with huge commercial success. It debuted at #11, then reached #2, and finally peaked at #1 in its third week, spending a total of nine weeks at the top. In all, The Beatlesspent 155 weeks on the . According to the , The Beatles is The Beatles' best-selling album at 19-times  and the tenth- in the .

[] []Track listing

All songs written and composed by , except where noted. 

Side one# Title Lead vocals Length1. ""   McCartney 2:432. ""   Lennon 3:563. ""   Lennon 2:174. ""   McCartney 3:085. ""   McCartney 0:536. ""   Lennon 3:147. "" () Harrison 4:458. ""   Lennon 2:43 Side two# Title Lead vocals Length1. ""   McCartney 2:282. ""   Lennon 2:033. ""   McCartney 2:184. "" (Harrison) Harrison 2:045. ""   McCartney 3:326. "" () Starr 3:507. ""   McCartney 1:418. ""   McCartney 1:469. ""   Lennon 2:54 Side three# Title Lead vocals Length1. ""   McCartney with Lennon 2:422. ""   Lennon 4:013. ""   McCartney 2:484. ""   Lennon 2:245. ""   Lennon 3:156. ""   McCartney 4:297. "" (Harrison) Harrison 3:04 Side four# Title Lead vocals Length1. ""   Lennon 4:152. ""   McCartney 2:413. "" (Harrison) Harrison 2:544. ""   Lennon, with McCartney 3:015. ""     8:226. ""   Starr 3:11 []Personnel The Beatles  – ,  and  ;  and  ( and ) , four- and six-string ; ;  and assorted  (, hand shake bell,  and vocal percussion) and   – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and rhythm (electric and acoustic) guitars, 4 and 6-string bass guitar;  ( and acoustic), Hammond organ, , ; drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, , thumping on the back of an acoustic guitar, handclaps and vocal percussion); ,  and ; tapes,  and  (electronic and home-made)  – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and rhythm (electric and acoustic) guitars, 4 and 6-string bass guitar; pianos (electric and acoustic), Hammond organ, drums,  and assorted percussion (tambourine, handclaps and vocal percussion; drums on "Back in the U.S.S.R." and "Dear Prudence"); ,  and sound effects  – drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, , , maracas, vocal percussion); lead vocals, electric piano and  (on "Don't Pass Me By") , lead vocals (on "Don't Pass Me By" and "Good Night") and backing vocals ("The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill") Guest musicians  – lead guitar on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"  – backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence","The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and "Birthday", saxophone and sound effects on "Helter Skelter"  –  on "Don't Pass Me By"  – backing vocals on "Birthday"  – backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence"  –  on "Ob-La-Di-Ob-La-Da"  – backing vocals on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"  – backing vocals and handclaps on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" and tapes and sound effects on "Revolution 9", backing vocals on "Birthday" Session musicians Ted Barker –  on "Martha My Dear" Leon Calvert –  and flugelhorn on "Martha My Dear" Henry Datyner, Eric Bowie, Norman Lederman, Ronald Thomas (all on "Glass Onion"), Bernard Miller, Dennis McConnell, Lou Soufier and Les Maddox (all on "Martha My Dear") – violins Reginald Kilby (on "Glass Onion" and "Martha My Dear"), Eldon Fox (on "Glass Onion") and Frederick Alexander (on "Martha My Dear") –   –  on "Honey Pie",  on "Savoy Truffle" Alf Reece –  on "Martha My Dear"  – backing vocals on "Good Night" Stanley Reynolds and Ronnie Hughes – trumpet (all on "Martha My Dear") Tony Tunstall –  on "Martha My Dear" John Underwood, Keith Cummings (all on "Glass Onion"), Leo Birnbaum and Henry Myerscough (all on "Martha My Dear") –    All Items Are shipped from ATHENS Greece not from UK. Items that cost more than 50 GBp must be shipped with insurrance that is 3.5 GBp more. Please Do not pay before you receive our invoice. Thanks! S&h to GREECE : 4GBP or any order Size, ΟΧΙ ΑΝΤΙΚΑΤΑΒΟΛΗ η ΣΥΝΑΝΤΗΣΗ. ΔΕΝ ΕΧΩ ΚΑΤΑΣΤΗΜΑ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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