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Product Summary
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Capitol Records
Buy.com Sku: 210982166
UPC: 094638246626
UPC 14: 00094638246626
Release Date: 9/9/2009
Buy.com Sales Rank: 8560
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
Sample
1. Back in the U.S.S.R. ~ The Beatles
2. Dear Prudence ~ The Beatles
3. Glass Onion ~ The Beatles
4. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ~ The Beatles
5. Wild Honey Pie ~ The Beatles
6. Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill, The ~ The Beatles
7. While My Guitar Gently Weeps ~ The Beatles
8. Happiness Is a Warm Gun ~ The Beatles
9. Martha My Dear ~ The Beatles
10. I'm So Tired ~ The Beatles
11. Blackbird ~ The Beatles
12. Piggies ~ The Beatles
13. Rocky Raccoon ~ The Beatles
14. Don't Pass Me By ~ The Beatles
15. Why Don't We Do It in the Road? ~ The Beatles
16. I Will ~ The Beatles
17. Julia ~ The Beatles
Disc 2
Song Title
Sample
1. Birthday ~ The Beatles
2. Yer Blues ~ The Beatles
3. Mother Nature's Son ~ The Beatles
4. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey ~ The Beatles
5. Sexy Sadie ~ The Beatles
6. Helter Skelter ~ The Beatles
7. Long, Long, Long ~ The Beatles
8. Revolution 1 ~ The Beatles
9. Honey Pie ~ The Beatles
10. Savoy Truffle ~ The Beatles
11. Cry Baby Cry ~ The Beatles
12. Revolution 9 ~ The Beatles
13. Good Night ~ The Beatles
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
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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. |
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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). |
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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). |
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Recorded at Abbey Road Studios and Trident Studios, London, England between May and October 1968. |
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This reissue of THE WHITE ALBUM has been digitally re-mastered. It comes packaged with replicated original U.K. album art, an expanded booklet containing original and newly written liner notes, and rare photos. Limited quantities of the CD are embedded with a brief documentary film about the album. |
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Audio Remasterers: Sam Okell; Sean Magee; Steve Rooke; Guy Massey; Paul Hicks. |
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Liner Note Authors: Mike Heatley; Kevin Howlett. |
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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." |
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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." |
Producer: George Martin |
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Engineer: Geoff Emerick; Ken Scott |
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Artist Overview
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.
Artist Influences
Arthur Alexander | Bill Haley | Bob Dylan | Buck Owens | Buddy Holly | Carl Perkins (Rockabilly) | Chuck Berry | Eddie Cochran | Elvis Presley | Fats Domino | Gene Vincent | Jerry Lee Lewis | Johnny Kidd & the Pirates | Larry Williams (Piano/Singer) | Little Richard | Little Willie John | Lonnie Donegan | Phil Spector | Ravi Shankar | Roy Orbison | Smokey Robinson | The Everly Brothers | The Isley Brothers | The Marvelettes | The Shadows | The Shirelles | The Supremes
Arthur Alexander | Bill Haley | Bob Dylan | Buck Owens | Buddy Holly | Carl Perkins (Rockabilly) | Chuck Berry | Eddie Cochran | Elvis Presley | Fats Domino | Gene Vincent | Jerry Lee Lewis | Johnny Kidd & the Pirates | Larry Williams (Piano/Singer) | Little Richard | Little Willie John | Lonnie Donegan | Phil Spector | Ravi Shankar | Roy Orbison | Smokey Robinson | The Everly Brothers | The Isley Brothers | The Marvelettes | The Shadows | The Shirelles | The Supremes
Artist Contemporaries
Bee Gees | Billy J. Kramer | Chad & Jeremy | David & Jonathan | Donovan | Emitt Rhodes | Freddie & the Dreamers | Gerry & the Pacemakers | Grapefruit | Herman's Hermits | Jimi Hendrix | Kippington Lodge | Love | Manfred Mann (Group) | Mary Hopkin | P.F. Sloan | Peter & Gordon | Pink Floyd | The Animals | The Association | The Beach Boys | The Beau Brummels | The Blue Things | The Bobby Fuller Four | The Byrds | The Creation | The Dave Clark Five | The Easybeats | The Fourmost | The Hollies | The Idle Race | The Kinks | The Left Banke | The Liverbirds | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Palace Guard | The Pretty Things | The Remains | The Rolling Stones | The Searchers | The Shadows | The Small Faces | The Sorrows (UK) | The Undertakers (UK) | The Who | The Yardbirds | The Zombies | Them | Tomorrow | Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Bee Gees | Billy J. Kramer | Chad & Jeremy | David & Jonathan | Donovan | Emitt Rhodes | Freddie & the Dreamers | Gerry & the Pacemakers | Grapefruit | Herman's Hermits | Jimi Hendrix | Kippington Lodge | Love | Manfred Mann (Group) | Mary Hopkin | P.F. Sloan | Peter & Gordon | Pink Floyd | The Animals | The Association | The Beach Boys | The Beau Brummels | The Blue Things | The Bobby Fuller Four | The Byrds | The Creation | The Dave Clark Five | The Easybeats | The Fourmost | The Hollies | The Idle Race | The Kinks | The Left Banke | The Liverbirds | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Palace Guard | The Pretty Things | The Remains | The Rolling Stones | The Searchers | The Shadows | The Small Faces | The Sorrows (UK) | The Undertakers (UK) | The Who | The Yardbirds | The Zombies | Them | Tomorrow | Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders
Artist Followers
10cc | ABBA | ABC | Aerosmith | Ambrosia | Argent | Aztec Camera | Badfinger | Bay City Rollers | Bee Gees | Belle & Sebastian | Big Star | Billy Joel | Billy Squier | Blue ?yster Cult | Blur | Boston | Bread | Bryan Adams | Buffalo Springfield | Carpenters | Cat Stevens | Chad & Jeremy | Cheap Trick | Coldplay | Cream | Crowded House | David Bowie | Donovan | Dwight Twilley | Electric Light Orchestra | Elliott Smith | Elton John | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emitt Rhodes | Flamin' Groovies | Fleetwood Mac | Foo Fighters | Freddie & the Dreamers | Genesis (U.K. Band) | George Michael | Grateful Dead | Hsker D | Harry Nilsson | Herman's Hermits | Iron Butterfly | It's a Beautiful Day | Jackson Browne | James Taylor (Soft Rock) | Jason Falkner | Jeff Lynne | Jefferson Airplane | Jellyfish | Jimi Hendrix | Joe Jackson | Jonathan Richman | Kansas | Kate Bush | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Lenny Kravitz | Lloyd Cole | Love | M. Ward | Manfred Mann (Individual) | Marmalade | Marshall Crenshaw | Matthew Sweet | Michael Jackson | Moby Grape | Modern English | Mott the Hoople | Neutral Milk Hotel | Nick Lowe | Nirvana (US) | Oasis | Peter & Gordon | Peter Frampton | Pink Floyd | Pixies | Prefab Sprout | Prince | Procol Harum | Queen | Quicksilver Messenger Service | R. Stevie Moore | Rick Springfield | Robyn Hitchcock | Rockpile | Sebadoh | Simon & Garfunkel | Sloan | Sonny & Cher | Spirit | Split Enz | Spoon | Squeeze | Status Quo (UK) | Steely Dan | Supergrass | Supertramp | Syd Barrett | T. Rex | Teenage Fanclub | The Alan Parsons Project | The Apples in Stereo | The Association | The Beau Brummels | The Byrds | The Cars | The Chameleons UK | The Church | The dB's | The Dream Academy | The Dukes of Stratosphear | The Feelies | The Go-Go's | The Guess Who | The House of Love | The Idle Race | The Iveys | The Jam | The Knack (1~US) | The La's | The Left Banke | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Mamas & the Papas | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Nazz | The Neon Philharmonic | The Nice | The Police | The Posies | The Raspberries | The Replacements | The Residents | The Rockin' Berries | The Rubinoos | The Rutles | The Sir Douglas Quintet | The Small Faces | The Smithereens | The Soft Boys | The Spongetones | The Stone Roses | The Three O'Clock | The Turtles | The Who | The Zombies | Third Eye Blind | Todd Rundgren | Tom Petty | Traffic | Travis (UK) | U2 | Utopia | Vanilla Fudge | Weezer | World Party | XTC | Yes
10cc | ABBA | ABC | Aerosmith | Ambrosia | Argent | Aztec Camera | Badfinger | Bay City Rollers | Bee Gees | Belle & Sebastian | Big Star | Billy Joel | Billy Squier | Blue ?yster Cult | Blur | Boston | Bread | Bryan Adams | Buffalo Springfield | Carpenters | Cat Stevens | Chad & Jeremy | Cheap Trick | Coldplay | Cream | Crowded House | David Bowie | Donovan | Dwight Twilley | Electric Light Orchestra | Elliott Smith | Elton John | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Emitt Rhodes | Flamin' Groovies | Fleetwood Mac | Foo Fighters | Freddie & the Dreamers | Genesis (U.K. Band) | George Michael | Grateful Dead | Hsker D | Harry Nilsson | Herman's Hermits | Iron Butterfly | It's a Beautiful Day | Jackson Browne | James Taylor (Soft Rock) | Jason Falkner | Jeff Lynne | Jefferson Airplane | Jellyfish | Jimi Hendrix | Joe Jackson | Jonathan Richman | Kansas | Kate Bush | King Crimson | Led Zeppelin | Lenny Kravitz | Lloyd Cole | Love | M. Ward | Manfred Mann (Individual) | Marmalade | Marshall Crenshaw | Matthew Sweet | Michael Jackson | Moby Grape | Modern English | Mott the Hoople | Neutral Milk Hotel | Nick Lowe | Nirvana (US) | Oasis | Peter & Gordon | Peter Frampton | Pink Floyd | Pixies | Prefab Sprout | Prince | Procol Harum | Queen | Quicksilver Messenger Service | R. Stevie Moore | Rick Springfield | Robyn Hitchcock | Rockpile | Sebadoh | Simon & Garfunkel | Sloan | Sonny & Cher | Spirit | Split Enz | Spoon | Squeeze | Status Quo (UK) | Steely Dan | Supergrass | Supertramp | Syd Barrett | T. Rex | Teenage Fanclub | The Alan Parsons Project | The Apples in Stereo | The Association | The Beau Brummels | The Byrds | The Cars | The Chameleons UK | The Church | The dB's | The Dream Academy | The Dukes of Stratosphear | The Feelies | The Go-Go's | The Guess Who | The House of Love | The Idle Race | The Iveys | The Jam | The Knack (1~US) | The La's | The Left Banke | The Lovin' Spoonful | The Mamas & the Papas | The Merry-Go-Round | The Monkees | The Moody Blues | The Move | The Nazz | The Neon Philharmonic | The Nice | The Police | The Posies | The Raspberries | The Replacements | The Residents | The Rockin' Berries | The Rubinoos | The Rutles | The Sir Douglas Quintet | The Small Faces | The Smithereens | The Soft Boys | The Spongetones | The Stone Roses | The Three O'Clock | The Turtles | The Who | The Zombies | Third Eye Blind | Todd Rundgren | Tom Petty | Traffic | Travis (UK) | U2 | Utopia | Vanilla Fudge | Weezer | World Party | XTC | Yes
Compilation Appearances
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Best Of George Harrison |
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The Us Vs John Lennon |
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British Rock Roll Anthology |
Associated Artists and Works
Technical Info
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Release Date : 09/09/2009 |
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Original Release Date : 1968 |
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Catalog ID : 3824662 |
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Label : Apple Corps |
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Number of Discs : 2 |
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Studio/Live : Studio |
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Mono/Stereo : Stereo |
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SPAR Code : n/a |
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UPC : 00094638246626 |
Professional Reviews
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..."
- 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..."
- 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
- 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."
(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.'
(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."
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- "Each track is anchored by the unmistakable collaboration of The Beatles as a solid musical unit."
Bio
The Beatles"I have never seen anything like it. Nor heard any noise to approximate the ceaseless, frantic, hysterical scream which met the Beatles when they took the stage after what seemed a hundred years of earlier acts. All very good, all marking time, because no one had come for anything other than the Beatles...
Then the theatre went wild. First aid men and police -- men in the stalls, women mainly in the balcony -- taut and anxious, patrolled the aisles, one to every three rows.
Many girls fainted. Thirty were gently carried out, protesting in their hysteria, forlorn and wretched in an unrequited love for four lads who might have lived next door.
The stalls were like a nightmare March Fair. No one could remain seated. Clutching each other, hurling jelly babies at the stage, beating their brows, the youth of Britain's second city surrendered themselves totally."
- Derek Taylor (From his book Fifty Years Adrift)
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