The Beatles [White Album] http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Music/Beatles-White-Album-Beatles/0077774644327

Artist: The Beatles

The Beatles [White Album] Disc 1 1  Back in the USSR 2  Dear Prudence 3  Glass Onion 4  Ob-la-Da Ob-la-di 5  Wild Honey Pie 6  The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill 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 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

• 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."
  

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

Q (Magazine) (p.120) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "It's the most honest portrait of a band breaking some limits and banging their heads against others."

NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #8 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'

Paste (magazine) (p.60) - "Each track is anchored by the unmistakable collaboration of The Beatles as a solid musical unit."

Producer:	George Martin
Country:	USA
UPC:	0077774644327
Studio/Live:	Studio
Release Date:	9 August, 1988