White Album Songs

Listen free to the beatles the beatles the white album back in the u s s r dear prudence and more.

White album songs. The white album was a neat little concept. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience depending on your view but what makes the so called white album interesting is its mess. The album was a stark contrast to sgt. Let s try and get to the bottom of the white album back in the ussr written by paul mccartney in india this song was influenced by the presence of beach boy mike love at the meditation camp.

Pepper s lonely hearts club band. The beatles is the ninth official british album and the fifteenth american album by the beatles a double album released in 1968. One of the white album s biggest songs was written by george harrison and the star himself told of the elaborate way it came about after he opened a book and looked for a specific word. White album songs have some pretty strange back stories but this one written by john about coaxing mia farrow s reclusive sister prudence out of her room while on a meditation retreat in india.

The sheer breadth of material as well as the mixture of the loud and the soft is part of what makes the. Actually it was a sprawling mess that defies concept but still. From such ballads as julia and blackbird to rock cuts like back in the ussr and birthday the white album captures the dichotomy of its chapter within the beatles story. Clever idea to roll this one out when they did.

Fifty years ago this thursday in one. Editors notes beneath the white on white cover art the white album is an eclectic 30 track album of largely stripped down material originally spread across two vinyl records. The beatles also known as the white album is the ninth studio album and only double album by the english rock band the beatles released on 22 november 1968 its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band s name embossed which was intended as a direct contrast to the vivid cover artwork of the band s previous lp sgt. Each song on the sprawling double album the beatles is an entity to itself as the band touches on anything and everything it can.