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| The Beatles (The White Album) | ||
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| LP by the Beatles | ||
| Released | November 22 1968 ( UK) November 25 1968 ( US) | |
| Recorded | Abbey Road 1968 | |
| Genre | Rock | |
| Length | 93 min 43 s | |
| Label | Apple ( UK) PCS 7067-8 Apple ( US) SWBO 101 | |
| Producer | George MartinSir George Martin (born January 3, 1926) is sometimes referred to as "the fifth Beatle", a title that he owes to his work as producer of almost all of the Beatles' records. In recognition of his services to the music industry, he is now a knight. Martin f | |
| Professional reviews | ||
| AMGThe All Music Guide (AMG) is a large, comprehensive and high quality metadata database about music. AMG was founded in 1991 as a guide for consumers and published its first reference book the next year. Considered to be the de-facto standard of music meta | 5/5 | link |
| Q | 4/5 | link |
| The Beatles Chronology | ||
| Magical Mystery TourRecorded in 1967, the Magical Mystery Tour album was the Beatles' culmination of an 18 month period unsurpassed as the most creative time for any rock and roll band. History of the project After Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Paul McCartney wanted ( 1967) | The Beatles ( 1968) | Yellow Submarine ( 1969) |
The self-titled double album The Beatles, released by the Beatles in 1968 at the height of their popularity, is often hailed as one of the major accomplishments in popular music. It is usually referred to as The White Album, because it has a plain white album cover embossed with the words "The BEATLES" (and on CD, in small black lettering).
In 2003 the TV channel VH1 named The Beatles the 11th greatest album of all time.
The follow-up to Magical Mystery Tour, "The White Album" marked a turning point for the group, interpreted by some fans to be the beginning of the end for the band.
With this album, each of the four band members began to showcase the range and depth of their own individual songwriting talents and styles that would be carried over to their eventual solo careers. Along with such standard rockers as the opening "Back in the USSR" (widely interpreted as a parody/tribute to the Beach Boys and more specifically "California Girls"), it contains classic ballads like "I Will" and "Julia" (the latter written by John - one of his few ballads, dedicated to his mother who was killed by an off-duty police officer when he was just 16); whimsical tunes like Paul's "Rocky Raccoon" and "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"; social commentary such as George's "Piggies" and John's "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"; "Don't Pass Me By" (Ringo's first solo composition); and a mix of other tunes, many of which became popular as singles.
A major highlight of Side Three of the LP (Disc Two of the CD) is Paul's outright heavy metal " Helter Skelter". A Helter-Skelter is a type of British funfair ride and the lyrics make that clear, but Charles Manson took it to mean some kind of apocalypse as a pretext for mass murder.
Perhaps as a reaction to the trend of dramatic album covers and extras they themselves helped foster, this album had a plain white cover with only "The BEATLES" in small lettering; (hence the nickname). Included in the interior of the album is a set of photographs taken by John Kelley in Autumn of 1968 that have themselves become classic.
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