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The Beatles ‎ "The Beatles" (The White Album")  Apple Records ‎PCS 7067/8 UK 1st press 2 × Stereo Vinyl, LPs, numbered and housed in a gate-fold sleeve. Released in 1968. Commonly known as ''The White Album'', it was issued with 4 glossy photographs, a double-sided poster, and black inner sleeves. The sleeve is embossed to the front.
Both LPs have a few surface marks but I've played both through on my stereo and they sound fantastic - no hop, stick or jump. Both albums are housed in their original black inner sleeves, which are in great condition, just normal wear to the openings., no rips or writing. The top-loading gate-fold sleeve has some slight ring-wear front and back but is generally in great condition - again, no rips or writing. The spine is intact and legible. The sleeve is numbered 0571600. The poster appears to have been folded up since it was issued and is in great shape. The photos of the Fab Four are immaculate. Matrix / Runout Side 1 : YEX 709-1  Matrix / Runout Side 2 : YEX 710-1 Matrix / Runout Side 3 : YEX 711-2 Matrix / Runout Side 4 : YEX 712-1
"The Beatles", also known as the 'White Album', is the Beatles' ninth studio album, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed, which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band's earlier "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Although no singles were issued from "The Beatles" in Britain and the United States, the songs "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" originated from the same recording sessions and were issued on a single in August 1968. The album's songs range in style from British blues and ska to tracks influenced by Chuck Berry and by Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Most of the songs on the album were written during March and April 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. The group returned to EMI Studios (now known as Abbey Road Studios) in May to commence recording sessions that lasted through to October. During these sessions, arguments broke out among the Beatles, and witnesses in the studio saw band members quarrel over creative differences. Another divisive element was the constant presence of John Lennon's new partner, Yoko Ono, whose attendance at the sessions broke with the Beatles' policy regarding wives and girlfriends. After a series of problems, including producer George Martin taking a sudden leave of absence and engineer Geoff Emerick quitting, Ringo Starr left the band briefly in August. The same tensions continued throughout the following year, leading to the eventual break-up of the Beatles in April 1970.
On release, "The Beatles" received favourable reviews from the majority of music critics, but other commentators found its satirical songs unimportant and apolitical amid the turbulent political and social climate of 1968. The band and Martin later debated whether the group should have released a single album instead. Nonetheless, "The Beatles" reached number one on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States and has since been viewed by some critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.
The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, in collaboration with McCartney. 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, in Helvetica, was blind 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, "the ironic situation of a numbered edition of something like five million copies".
In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked "The Beatles" at number 10 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. On the 40th anniversary of the album's release, Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano wrote that it "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". In 2011, Kerrang! placed the album at number 49 on a list of "The 50 Heaviest Albums Of All Time". The magazine praised the guitar work in "Helter Skelter". The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.