Sold Date: July 21, 2020
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The Beatles 1968 "White Album",
Mono 180g Double Vinyl LP [2014 analogue remaster].

Record & sleeve (& inside poster/photos) condition are both Near Mint, as in it has been used but can't see or hear any faults (I listened to full album this morning and no jumps, deathly quiet). Has been kept in plastic sleeve in a smoke-free, pet-free environment. Will be dispatched in card box, with bubble-wrapping Royal Mail 2nd Class.

Will include plastic sleeve for further protection around album sleeve (as photographed). Limited release 2014 (in Mono) on 180-gram vinyl LPs, newly mastered at Abbey Rd studios from analogue master tapes and with replicated artwork. Includes a top opening gatefold cover, black poly-lined inner sleeves, large poster (lyrics on other side) and four colour photos. Beatles Mono authenticity verification card included (see pic). Unique number stamped on the front cover. Just looked and unable to find it available elsewhere within the UK, on any major retail websites so good luck bidding.

Not much more can be said of the "White Album" musically, culturally and historically, that hasn't already been said but below is some information from Beatles.com on the Beatles 2014 Mono analogue remasters series.

The Beatles "White Album" - TRACKLIST
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

THE BEATLES’ ORIGINAL MONO STUDIO ALBUMS REMASTERED AT ABBEY ROAD DIRECTLY FROM THE ANALOGUE MASTERS FOR VINYL RELEASE

London – June 12, 2014 – The Beatles in mono:
This is how most listeners first heard the group in the 1960s, when mono was the predominant audio format. Up until 1968, each Beatles album was given a unique mono and stereo mix, but the group always regarded the mono as primary. In an audiophile-minded undertaking, The Beatles’ acclaimed mono albums have been newly mastered for vinyl from quarter-inch master tapes at Abbey Road Studios by GRAMMY®-winning engineer Sean Magee and GRAMMY®-winning mastering supervisor Steve Berkowitz. While The Beatles In Mono CD boxed set released in 2009 was created from digital remasters, for this new vinyl project, Magee and Berkowitz cut the records without using any digital technology. Instead, they employed the same procedures used in the 1960s, guided by the original albums and by detailed transfer notes made by the original cutting engineers. Working in the same room at Abbey Road where most of The Beatles’ albums were initially cut, the pair first dedicated weeks to concentrated listening, fastidiously comparing the master tapes with first pressings of the mono records made in the 1960s. Using a rigorously tested Studer A80 machine to play back the precious tapes, the new vinyl was cut on a 1980s-era VMS80 lathe. Manufactured for the world at Optimal Media in Germany, The Beatles’ albums are presented in their original glory, both sonically and in their packaging.

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