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The White Album (CD)

By: The Beatles (Artist)

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The Beatles Artist Snapshot:

No other band has had quite the same impact as the four lads from Liverpool. Over the course of eight years and more than a dozen albums, the Beatles changed popular music and culture forever, spearheading the 1960s British Invasion and shaping rock & roll along the way. Along with their amazing musical output and unprecedented worldwide celebrity, John, Paul, George, and Ringo were responsible for many pop music revolutions, major and minor--writing their own material, pushing the limits of the studio, making films of their music, printing song lyrics on albums--that today are taken for granted. Although the Beatles disbanded in 1970, their artistic legacy is permanently ingrained in the entire world's musical vocabulary.

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Track Listing

DISC 1 for The White Album (CD) Album By The Beatles (Artist)
1   Back In The U.S.S.R.  
2   Dear Prudence  
3   Glass Onion  
4   Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da  
5   Wild Honey Pie  
6   Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill, The  
7   While My Guitar Gently Weeps  
8   Happiness Is A Warm Gun  
9   Martha My Dear  
10   I'm So Tired  
11   Blackbird  
12   Piggies  
13   Rocky Raccoon  
14   Don't Pass Me By  
15   Why Don't We Do It In The Road?  
16   I Will  
17   Julia  
 
DISC 2 for The White Album (CD) Album By The Beatles (Artist)
1   Birthday  
2   Yer Blues  
3   Mother Nature's Son  
4   Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey  
5   Sexy Sadie  
6   Helter Skelter  
7   Long, Long, Long  
8   Revolution 1  
9   Honey Pie  
10   Savoy Truffle  
11   Cry Baby Cry  
12   Revolution 9  
13   Good Night  
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.90) - Ranked #10 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...THE WHITE ALBUM is an exhilarating sprawl - some of the Beatles' most daring and delicate work..."
Q (6/00, p.86) - Ranked #7 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" - "...[Out of] boundless enthusiasm and creeping paranoia - comes [their] most peculiar record....Childish, colorful, antiquated and faintly macabre..."
Vibe (12/99, p.157) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #8 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

Title Note

Each copy of this limited edition is sequentially numbered. The packaging recreates the original double-gatefold sleeve and includes the original poster as well as the individual photos of each band member.

The Beatles: George Harrison (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, violin, organ, bass, tambourine, firebell); John Lennon (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, harmonica, saxophone, piano, organ, harmonium, bass, 6-string bass, maracas, tambourine, tape loops); Paul McCartney (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, flute, flugelhorn, piano, Hammond organ, bass, drums, bongos, timpani, percussion); Ringo Starr (vocals, piano, drums, bongos, maracas, castanets, tambourine).

Additional personnel includes: Yoko Ono (vocals); Eric Clapton (electric guitar); Mal Evans (trumpet, tambourine); George Martin (piano, harmonium); Chris Thomas (harpsichord, Mellotron); Maureen Starkey, Patti Harrison (background vocals).

Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Trident Studios, London, England between May and October 1968.

THE BEATLES (generally known as "The White Album" because of its cover) was a sprawling two-record set, highlighting the distinct personalities in the group as they matured and moved further away from each other. With the four Beatles playing like session men on each other's songs, the making of the album was fraught with tension. John Lennon's songs included a bitter take on people who read too much into the Beatles' lyrics ("Glass Onion"), reflections on loneliness and alienation ("Yer Blues," "I'm So Tired"), and the avant garde sound collage "Revolution 9."

George Harrison's songs offered black humor ("Piggies") and tender sadness ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps," with Eric Clapton on guitar). Paul McCartney provided both light, lyric songs ("Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," "Honey Pie"), and rockers ("Back In The U.S.S.R.," the explosive "Helter Skelter"). Ringo Starr made his solo songwriting debut with the goofy country/ska lilt of "Don't Pass Me By" and sang the album closer "Good Night."

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