The Beatles (White Album) [VINYL]

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He was unhappy with the group's first attempt to record the track, and so invited his friend Eric Clapton to come and play on it. Lennon wrote the track about Mia Farrow's sister Prudence Farrow, who rarely left her room during the stay in commitment to the meditation. Like the original vinyl pressings, these CD copies also featured individually stamped numbers on the album's front cover (in this case on the cover of the booklet for the first disc). In my opinion, the best sounding stereo version of the White Album is the UK white vinyl pressing from 1978.

Author Ian MacDonald said Sgt Pepper was "shaped by LSD", [12] but the Beatles took no drugs with them to India aside from marijuana, and their clear minds helped the group with their songwriting. The second release, licensed by Ampex from EMI in early 1970 after the latter ceased manufacture of commercial reel-to-reel tapes, was issued as two separate volumes, [242] [243] and sequenced the songs in the same manner as on the cassette version. A field recording of a jet aeroplane taking off and landing was used at the start of the track, and intermittently throughout it. Further to the betrayal they had felt at Lennon's non-activist stance in "Revolution", New Left commentators condemned The Beatles for its failure to offer a political agenda. The album's lyrics progressed from being vague to open-ended and prone to misinterpretation of authorial intention, such as "Glass Onion" (e.

In September 2013, after the British Phonographic Industry changed their sales award rules, the album was declared as having gone platinum, meaning sales of at least 300,000 copies. In the UK, The Beatles debuted at number one on 7 December 1968 [171] and spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts (including the entire competitive Christmas season), [171] until it was replaced by the Seekers' Best of the Seekers on 25 January 1969, dropping to number 2. The group ended the chosen take with a six-minute improvisation that had further overdubs added, before being cut to the length heard on the album.

Rob Sheffield, writing in The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), said that its songs ranged from the Beatles' "sturdiest tunes since Revolver" to "self-indulgent filler". During 1978 and 1979, for the album's tenth anniversary, EMI reissued the album pressed on limited edition white vinyl in several countries. Harrison reportedly ran around the studio holding a flaming ashtray above his head, "doing an Arthur Brown". I know it was cleaned up using modern techniques but if you listen carefully you can still hear the hiss of the tape on some tracks and this is what makes the recording more magical.I’ve owned many copies of The Beatles on vinyl, but my favorite, and point of comparison here, is the 1970 Apple U.

Background vocals throughout the album prove richer on the 2018 edition, with the lower harmonies claiming superior resonation. In my view, this "White Album" release is absolutely superb, and far superior to the Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary box set (sorry folks ! Considering this was recorded 50 years ago on George Harrison's own home recording equipment the quality of the recording is amazing. George Martin's influence had gradually waned, and he left abruptly to go on a holiday during the recording sessions, leaving his young protégé Chris Thomas in charge of production. This is the first time The BEATLES (‘White Album’) has been remixed and presented with additional demos and session recordings.

Lennon began writing " Cry Baby Cry" in late 1967 and the lyrics were partly derived from the tagline of an old television commercial. He moved the White Album master copy onto the Blue Bayou press and produced one totally blue vinyl version of the White Album. First let’s get the vinyl geeks out of the way: This is the 1978 white vinyl UK reissue of The Beatles, aka The White Album.