How does an Apple rot? The Story of the White Album by The Beatles | Classic Albums Review
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- In May the beatles went to abbey road to record the first album they were going to release under their new company apple. The project at that time seemed simple, John and Paul had about thirty songs written almost all in india. George for his part, more than on other albums, took seriously his role in the band as the third songwriter, and Ringo also wrote his first song.
With so much material at hand, it was decided to make a double album, a format widely used for classical music but absolutely innovative in popular music, but the new album and his illusions were spoiled from the first day when Lennon entered the studio with a woman next to him, breaking all the studio rules. Also, McCartney developed an almost sick perfectionist attitude that collapsed his partners. Harrison showed more and more apathy to continue working with two beatles who never ended up taking him seriously, and tired too Ringo left the band. And with an apple that was rotting... the best band on the planet worked and sounded like no other.
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My favorite album of all time. Variety, raw energy, creativity.
This was the last Beatles album I bought (way after they broke up)...I was already a huge Beatles fan, and bought this last because it was expensive (double album) and in the record bin I wasn't excited about buying an album that was just white - I figured it was some throwaway album. But when I played it, I was so utterly blown away, the Beatles went into orbit for me. I wondered why I hadn't heard so many of these songs before. And Julia....wow...that rocker Lennon, could write such a touching, incredibly beautiful song about his mother put him into a whole new category.
I'm an idiot! The White Album was the last Beatles album that I ever owned and over the decades I'd forgotten the reason why. Of course, as a kid it was just too expensive, with being a double album and all. It's not my favourite album of all time, but only because I can't decide which Beatles' album is my favourite.
The White Album marks one of the greatest epochs in music history. This album really exemplifies their songwriting prowess. And, no mater their nuances, nothing stood in their way of creating classic songs. Even though they all had many outside cultural influences, the Beatles still managed to collaborate as they did in the early days without any formula for writing songs.
“No mater”?!? Ahh mater, much later!
THE WHITE ALBUM WAS A GREAT BEATLES ALBUM😊
21:08 Jim Morrison never sat in on a Beatles recording session, nor did the doors record at Abbey Road.
Ringo had actually written "Don't Pass Me By" several years earlier. There are a couple occasions in 1964 interviews when McCartney mentions Ringo having written it, and gives samples. Apparently at the time it was considered too much a "country song" for the Beatles to use.
Yes, the history of it is easy to find. Gotta wonder about the too country thing, though. "Act Naturally" got tons of airplay and they toyed with writing in the genre during the Revolver days without it resulting in any damage. To me, it seems more jug band than country, although the two are certainly closely related. I can't recall if George helped him on the song, but as a Carl Perkins fan, I wouldn't be surprised.
Yet, they covered "Honey Don't" and "Act Naturally" with Ringo on lead vocal. Go figure.
"What Goes On" (flipside of "Nowhere Man") was kinda country and that was the only Beatle song that Lennon and McCartney shared songwriting credits with Ringo.
The Beatles could do country. Elton John did some in his early album 'Tumbleweed Connection' ("Country Comfort"). My point being the recording of "Act Naturally" (a later duet released with Ringo and Buck Owens) and "I've Just Seen a Face" has a definite country feel to it. John, as a solo artist released on his album 'Imagine' with "Crippled Inside". The band was quoted that other than R&B from America, they also listened to country tunes as well. I think The Beatles could have done a fantastic country album if they wished to.
@@desertskiesarizona2946 I still listen to Tumbleweed Connection a lot. It had kinda an "old South" feel to it. Amoreena is still my favorite song from it. I remember the country station my parents listened to back in the 70s actually played Country Comfort quite a bit.
Love this record. Whatever path the Beatles took, I’m grateful it went that way. It’s an incredible body of work
Right? Can't people just accept they were great, every album was great, and they were a great band. Always categorizing. Sheesh.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Correctamundo!:)
"Mother's Nature's Son" is the most underrated song in the Beatles catalog, methinks.
you say that like long long long aint on the same album
@@GRANDDADDO Great song.
When I'm in a the mood for wild variety, rambunctiousness, and edginess, the White Album is my favorite Beatles album. When I want sparkling and grand pop-rock, "Abbey Road" is my favorite Beatles album. I go back and forth between those two as my favorites. Honorable mention to "Revolver."
The white album is a wonderful example of so many different musical styles. A primer.
That’s one take. Another is that the album is a mish-mash with some distinct brash on it.
Had the White Album been released as a single album, it would have had quite a similar vibe and feel to Revolver, another strong and eclectic collection of top-notch songs.
The album is a treasure. Best studio time they ever spent and rendering in the process what to me was their all-time best song, "Long, Long, Long". Never tire of the panorama of The White Album. It is the essence of The Beatles just as Exile On Main Street is the essence of The Rolling Stones.
Great comparison of the two. I agree!
@Jay The big disparity in song lengths rapidly dulls most all traces of a comparison but I hear the bits and pieces you're getting at. Besides travelling together those Wilburys liked to keep things in the family.
@Jay just listened to Joan Baez doing a version of Sad Eyed Lady. Made me cry. Beautiful Joan Baez. But. Definite links. I like both
Love this album mostly because my brother played it constantly in his room. So I just absorbed it into my conscious and subconscious. He’s passed away now so it’s good memories for me and I love almost every song.
One thing about music, it keeps memories alive.
@@Terk131 exactly
In My Life
I loved the White Album so much that I took it with me everywhere I went. No battery operated record players back then so if there wasn't electricity I didn't go. My Dad was a great piano player and he loved Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da so he played a Ragtime version it was great. They didn't realise at the time that Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da appealed to a whole generation of oldies and so they became Beatles fans, to a point of course.
Ob-La-Di is a genius song
If I could only pick one Beatles album, it would be The White Album. While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Dear Prudence and Blackbird are simply phenomenal!!!
I think that they would have done better to take George Martin's advice and have released a single album with 14 - 16 songs on it. Having said that, "Julia" would be on my short list of "Best Beatles Ballads."
You could add John's:
1. Julia 2. Yer Blues
3. Sexy Sadie
4. Happiness is a warm gun
5. I'm So Tired
Paul's:
1. Obladi-Oblada
2. Mother Nature Son
3. Martha My Dear
4. I Will
White Album should have been one album. All Lennon songs except for Blackbird and While My Guitar....
Blackbird is my late exes favorite
The White Album is perfect - every track was right where it should be - Savoy Truffle is my favorite but it was all fantastic. Their best album and all of them were great.
Ditto on that..
Yes! Deliciously diverse and somewhat fragmented (in a good way), this album is fire. Bungalow Bill into While My Guitar Gently Weeps is killer. Big Sgt. Pepper fan here, in part because of the childhood triggers, but, The Beatles' BEST album might just be TWA. (not the airline)
hot take when there's so much filler. even the band agrees
I agree
@@onetrueslave rocky raccoon, sexie Sadie will get stuck in anyones head for days, piggies is maybe the weirdest somg ever and im convinced it started kids cartoons, the album is just so freaking good!!! every song is a journey and its so hard to pick a favorite album, song etc and it changes often for me
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aino , yamehabiaasustado jsjs
Yo también me había asustado jajajaja
Jajaja ya estaba viendo las comparaciones entre guiones e imágenes pero todo bien 👍
Ya decía que los veía muy parecidos xd
Ya se me hacia igual hasta el titulo y la portada del video jaja
"A roar of propellers"? It was a jet!
I love the eclecticism of the album and feel so peeved at all those who have grumbled on about preferring it to have been a single album. The album is a historic record of the state of the group: The weak tracks, though many, are the glue that holds the classics in place. Without those weak tracks, the classics would fall through the gaps! I'm also in a minority, because I love the Musee Concrete of 'Revolution 9', particularly the use of the last two unison orchestral notes of Sibelius 7th symphony. I counted thirteen uses of these two notes! Long live the White Album!
I'm a White Album man too. But I don't think it has as many weak tracks as Sgt Pepper or Revolver, at least pound for pound. There's so much on both those albums I've skipped over for years, but the only one I skip on White Album is "Don't Pass Me By."
@@valmarsiglia I have to admit that I loath 'Ob-la-dee-ob-la-Dah', it makes my teeth grind!
Those classics don't need "glue" to make them work.
@@HaFannyHa It's definitely not a favorite of mine either, but I don't think it's filler. The way I see it, the album takes on and remakes a great variety of genres, and "Ob-La-Dee," "Wild Honey Pie," and "Bungalow Bill" are the album's take on children's music, especially the counterculture-tinged children's music that was starting to come out around the time. And good thing they got it all out of the way early too!
@@HaFannyHa Ha! I see your point, but I really like the silly stuff thrown in. There are a few on the album that are reminiscent of Music Hall. I think they're fun. These guys grew up at the tail end of traditional Music Hall, so it makes sense, as does the Stones doing "Something Happened To Me Yesterday." Just be sure to shove some gum in your mouth before listening to protect your teeth.
I have George's "Wonderwall Music" album. It's a soundtrack for the movie Wonderwall. It has a lot of different music styles, but it's not his electronic experimental album. That was 1969's "Electronic Sound" which was the second (and last) release on the Beatles' Zapple label.
Yes, yet another thing this narration gets wrong. The script has obviously confused the two albums.
I'm 50 so I thought The Beatles were the stereotypical teeny corny top 10 hit band. I can't express how greatful I am for these and other videos. Discovering the band now at this age is so so rewarding. I had no clue how good they are and I watch the videos with rapt attention.
How did you get this far in life still thinking The Beatles were a standard 1960s pop act? lol. I'm genuinely curious. Throughout my life I couldn't go anywhere or talk to anybody without hearing about how artful and innovative The Beatles were. I couldn't turn the TV on without seeing 30 documentaries about how they laid the groundwork for essentially all popular music after them.
The Beatles were the and are the best band of all Time!
The unreleased song mentioned as No Guilty, was actually Not Guilty. With possibly the most takes in the recording of it of any Beatles song.
My brother bought this album on reel-to-reel tape (oh, my, the sound quality), and I remember thinking when I first heard it-even as a callow high school freshman (albeit a musician)-that it sounded like two solo albums, a solo EP, and a one-off, novelty single, which is, essentially, what it is. Although the White Album's eclecticism is stunning in its breadth, it really is a harbinger of the demise of the group.
In my opinion this is their best album. It also contains the best Beatle song ever. And Harrison wrote and sung it. While my guitar gently weeps. This album would have been perfect if it had enclosed the giant rolling paper Cheech and Chong gave you with Big Bamboo.
*Bambu
The White Album is my personal favorite, but it is not their best. Sgt Pepper gets that award.
Pepper is massively overrated.@@kene.9816
'Always been one of my most beloved and favorite Beatles albums . . . .It truly has something for every one. It's one of my many genuine Beatles treasures. I still have my original vinyl purchased 'way back in 1968 . . . as well as a CD of this epic double-album.
I think they all felt after MMT things were getting stale with four previously released tracks making up its running order a new start was needed. Psychedelia was winding down Epstein their business mentor had died and 1968 represented a return to guitar based sound. Rishikesh was a well of creativity for them and introducing audiences to these well-crafted songs gave them artistic impetus. Groundbreaking album and it's importance cannot be understated. It symbolizes for me their last great run before the end.
“Paul wrote grannie songs….oh yeah, also Helter Skelter.” The man did it all!
The White Album is undoubtedly one of the greatest albums ever. even OB-LA-DI OB-LA-DA makes sense buried within this treasure of musical ideas flowing into each other. I never tire of it. A thing of beauty is still a joy forever !
The range of expression is astounding. It was great to be there as a young boy. Still amazing.
Bravo! This is a very well conceived and informative review of the Beatles' "White Album", which includes many facts and bits of Beatles trivia that I had never heard before. Cleverly written and researched, and presented creatively and professionally by new UA-cam content creators MUSIC BOX, who appear to know the business of producing informative and entertaining videos that are well worth watching.
Once again, bravo and thanks!
This is great! Really looking forward to more of your classic album reviews.
What an excellent piece of work. I am QUITE impressed with your production, this is the very first time I have seen it. 5 stars. Home run.
Fun to hear so much oft-repeated misinformation on this subject all in one place!
Yes! and its pronounced Esher (like Esther) not EE-sher
@@spockboy "eesher" is the correct pronunciation.
@@Lightw81 I checked. I stand corrected.
I knew in five seconds that we were in for some bullshit
Probably would have been swallowed hook line and sinker if not for Peter Jackson.
It was one of my favorite albums as a kid and I found a lot of the songs that people disregard as really fun and easy to learn. I've learned how to play most of it.
"Martha My Dear" was the first song I learned/taught myself on piano - decades before youtube where there are 10 videos explaining how to play every famous song. "Gently Weeps" was the first song I ever played on bass. On acoustic guitar, I started with "Yellow Submarine", but learned to fingerpick with Dear Prudence and Blackbird. Electric guitar I can't remember what I started on, but Helter Skelter would be one of the first songs. Their music was so easy, but ... so musical.
@@aquamarine99911 As an amateur guitarist, I find their music less easy than most rock and folk numbers, which tend to be easy as pie. The Beatles' stuff is full of surprising chord changes and rhythmical anomalies.
Good on you but Happiness Is A Warm Gun found the Fabs unable to complete a single take as a group & McCartney has never been able to repeat Martha My Dear - don't even go there with Revolution 9!
I find some of the songs easy now , Not the 60s.
The narrator states at 8:33 that shortly after Obla-di obla-da was released "the Lemonade group made a cover and it went to #1." The group was actually called The Marmalade and the cover version only went to #1 in Great Britain.
The White Album friggen terrified me as a child 🤣 It wasn’t just the audio-horror that was “Revolution 9”, but also the weird and almost sadistic sounds of songs like “Piggies” and “Wild Honey Pie” that just had me so unnerved. I was a big fan of the Beatles, because of my parents, but I would legit hide that cd from them frequently just so they wouldn’t listen to it 🤣
Ever since, though, I’ve finally grown up to appreciate the album as brilliant. I still get this weird and disturbed vibe from it to this day, though.
I wish I’d hidden my mums’ copy of South Pacific 🙄
And The Sound of Music …..
From the inside. I once read a good book from the early 70s which told the break up story - 'Apple to the core'.
Kinfauns was a large 1950s deluxe bungalow in Esher in the English county of Surrey, on the Claremont Estate. From 1964 to 1970, it was the home of George Harrison, lead guitarist of the Beatles. It was where many of the demo recordings for the band's 1968 self-titled double album (also known as the "White Album") were made. The bungalow has since been demolished, and another house built in its place.
Esher demos, it's part of 3 CDs. Annivasary edition
I can't believe Kinfauns was demolished. It should have remained protected as a historical home much like their childhood homes are. Makes me sad.
OK, think on this: Not a double album... not a single album... but a TRIPLE album!
Some of the established running order sides 1-4would need reworked, but imagine if they'd added in Isn't It A Pity, Sour Milk Sea, Not Guilty, What's Yer News Mary Jane, Child Of Nature, Suzy Parker (maybe, with a little more work), Teddy Boy, Junk, Goodbye, and close side five with Hey Jude. Side six starts with Revolution #1, then Revolution #9 and finish up with Revolution.
Voila! Come on, you know you want to play...
My only complaint about this most informative post is I couldn't tell most of the time what songs the narrator was referring to. Even so I appreciate the spirit in which this post was made. Not to mention the "post," Beatle songs that never made it on to a Beatles album. Now I'm going to have to track these titles down to see where they ended up as the titles themselves of these songs are compelling.
I think it's the Beatles' best and by far most interesting album. I've been a huge fan for theirs for almost 50 years now, and I grew up with the conventional narrative of their "decline," but now I think it's all just a comforting framing device we impose retroactively to turn it all into a morality tale for our own edification. I really have grown sick of the whole tired old story of how Sgt Pepper was a high point and the White Album was a low point. I personally can't stand Sgt Pepper except for "A Day in the Life," but I keep going back to the White Album, year after year. Since when do rancor and stormy relationships among artistic collaborators always equal artistic decline? Because I could probably fill a few pages off the top of my head with the names of great artistic partners who couldn't stand each other personally from the word go. These guys were all in their 20s, had been completely cooped up together for several years, their lives under a constant media microscope, and on top of that were expected to shit gold bricks every time they picked up an instrument, all while remaining cute, relatable, and affable for their fans. Leave them the fuck alone, already. Imagine being in that situation with your three best friends. Whatever bullshit was happening in their personal lives, they created some of the greatest music ever made, music that will be celebrated for centuries to come, and a lot of that music is on the White Album. Like Paul said in the Anthology documentary: "Its great! It sold! Its the bloody Beatles white album! Shut up!"
@@scrambaba Sure, the imminent breakup of the band was becoming obvious by the time of the White Album, but I'm not so concerned with biography as with the music. And what makes being a "smooth machine" better? Far too many bands have a packaged, uniform sound and seldom venture out of their commercially-delineated safe area (or are seldom allowed out of it by the bean-counters), which is boring, probably the worst thing you can say about any art. The tensions created by the assertion of the Beatles' individual personalities led to their best music. They released a string of albums that had the uniform sound everyone wanted, knocked those out of the park, and with the WA they did something different. I see it as artistic growth. They went right back to a more uniform sound for Abbey Road, and while all Beatles albums are like holy scripture to me, it's artistically a much more modest effort than the WA.
Naw, it’s mostly trash and this vid just illuminates how utterly garbage it was from a songwriting standpoint. A double album that demands being a single one. No one needs to hear half of the songs, including but especially Rev9. It’s more than 8mins long? Lol. Chop that one, lose half the McCartney nostalgia crap, drop all George songs save Weeps, boom. Perfect SINGLE album.
Your musical taste does not change the fact that the band was in full decline and the music suffered for it. Let It Be and Abbey Road are 10x’s better. Not a wasted song. Abbey Road sd2 is perfect. It’s what TWA could have been.
@@theapostrophewrecks3589 Sounds like a greatest-hits compilation is more your speed.
Abbey Road has always been my favorite.. I like them all tho.. White Album is probably around 4th on the list for me..
@@averyprice9422 That's the thing. To me, they're all practically sacred scripture. I realize that of course even the stuff I don't like is still of seismic importance in the history of music and really post-WWII culture in general. I may not like some songs, but I sure as hell respect them.
Wonderwall Music was not "an electronic experiment." The "electronic experient" was George Harrison's second solo album, "Electronic Sounds."
This dude has do many incorrect statements in his review, does one more really matter? 😆 🤣 😂
Hold on a minute, the roar of the propellers on a plane?? That's a jet plane dude! Nice doc on my favorite Beatles album though....
the beatles should have made an in studio concert film of the entire white album.all they would have had to do is play all the songs straight thru in front of the cameras and then call it a day.
Just on disc 1 it like listening to 17 different music acts on each track. Their most diverse album.
Informative and insightful. Thanks for the video.
As an aside I know Mia Farrow and talked with her about her days in India with the Beatles.
The Beatles were so far ahead of their time their songs were or gained number one ten years after they officially broke up.
Couple of things. After India Ringo filmed Candy. The Magic Christian wasn’t made until a year later. And it’s NOT Guilty.
One of the greatest albums of all time, no doubt.
Better than “Let It Bleed” by The Rolling Stones? It’s a hard call.
@@alicat7281 for me it's no contest but I'm not the biggest fan of the Stones.
It was "Marmalade", not "Lemonade", that released "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" as a single.
Very true...there's no such band as Lemonade.
Not the only Obvious mistake
@@farrellmcnulty909 Well, there's Baby Lemonade, but they didn't record Ob-la-di either.
@@appledoreman Wasn't that a Syd Barrett tribute?
@@farrellmcnulty909 I'm not sure about that, I only know they backed Arthur Lee on tour, most notably on his 'Forever Changes' series of concerts.
Clapton "...always behaved at the height of his legend." What does that statement actually mean? Having listened to a bit more of this video I'm starting to think it's been translated into English from another language.
I think it means that Clapton never really got corrupted and became snobbish even when he was the at the height of his career.
@@MrLump But in 1976, Eric Clapton went on a racist rant, using racial slurs and calling for the deportation of non-whites from Britain.
Always behaved (himself) even at the height of his legend
Yeah, lots of sentences which make absolutely no sense. Frustrating listening. 'With memories to a mediaeval hall, George Martin orchestra in a wonderful way'. Wtf is that
It makes perfect sense to me. It is a poetic way of saying that Eric turned out a perfect performance on the day, living up to his reputation and legend as a virtuoso rock guitarist.
Definitely my favorite Beatles album. My fondest memories of this album are playing it loud in the parking lot/campgrounds of Alpine Valley while waiting for the Grateful Dead's next show back in the 80s.
Oh, I remember those days! Also, in the parking lot when we drove in for tickets.
Ringo didn't film the 'Magic Christian' film until after the 'Let It Be' sessions.
Revolution 9 succeeded at being the musical equivalent of a banana duct-taped to a wall and called “art.”
That song alone knocks it off being there best album
Dehra-dun by George did appear on the Beatles Anthology in 1996. and the song is Not Guilty. not no guilty.
Rocky Raccoon is a fun song and Paul’s voice is superb. The man of a thousand voices is so true. I’m glad they kept it.
Awesome work! Would love to see similar videos for the other albums
1. George's song is called Not Guilty. 2. Ringo didn't start making Magic Christian until after the Get Back sessions in Jan 69, amd 3, Don't pass me by is older.
George had 3 songs on Revolver so he should have had six at least on a double album
Just to be clear: the sound at the beginning of "Back in the U.S.S.R." are JET engines, not propellers of an airplane.
By far the best album, they have put together. I love it. Play it so many times, and I still do.
Hey Jules, I completely agree.
@@craig1538 well almost of the Beatles is epic. But the best work they put together in 1966 to 1970. Bloody shame they broke up
Revolver , Rubber soul. Really love every single album .
You make very professional, informative and entertaining videos
I'm pretty sure that the group who covered Obladi-Oblada was called Marmalade, not Lemonade 😆
Correct.
25% of what was told in this vid was fantasy as well. 😂
I’m pretty sure the band was called Rodomontade. 🤣
Marharishi wasn’t a fraud, he just liked women... like they did.
Why are you calling George's song NO Guilty? It's clearly NOT Guilty!!!! eek
Other than that, I like your LP run-through.
White album. I heard Love Me Do and other early Beatles when I was around 5. Didn't pay attention to much... well the Monkees happened and ate that up, but my brother brought home some cassette tape recordings of the White Album when I was 10. I asked who it was, and he says: the Beatles! I said no WAY!!!!!! I couldn't believe it was the same band. Best Album ever !!!!
Well I don't know what what you were listening to to the years leading up to the White album.. because from Love me Do to The White album their were incredible masterpieces in between.. PS.. and that includes Love me Do
@@pgroove163 I do sort of remember Hey Jude, but don't think I made the connection that it was the same band as Saw Her Standing there or Love me Do. 60 Pop AM radio played all kinds of 70s bubble gum music and Motown, and not so much Beatles.
The first masterpiece on the album was Dear Prudence. Back in the USSR was pretty good too. That is not to say While My Guitar Gently Weeps isn’t a masterpiece, because it is.
Thank you. I was about to say the same.
Exceptional work here, mate. Well-done.
Stop the nonsense...The Beatles was, and still is, an excellent collection of amazing music.
My first album. I was 14 years old, got it for my 14th birthday as a present from my father.
He got it cheap through someone worked in a shop, the deal was they got the poster that came with it.
I liked that album a lot. Our neighbor got Sargent Peppers around the same time. Had no fav songs.
I remember we also had a single with Hey Jude on one side and revolution on the other.
So many songs on that album, a double album, Played it through beginning to end over and over.
That album was very powerful because of the collection of songs that obviously a seminal collection.
Can't imagine what it would take to put something like that together.
Who would have known they were falling apart as a band at the same time they were a blaze of creativity.
Ringo also wrote other songs, he wrote one that the Rolling Stones recorded as I remember.
Helter Skelter - widely accepted - as one of the fore runners of heavy metal, has more to it than meets the eye (or should I say ears, lol). Could somebody throw more light on this. The story (I heard) is that the band was having fun and recorded a 27 minutes’ version, which has not been heard by the world. Even the song in the “white album” fades out, instead of having an ‘ending’. Hope to hear more about this in this forum. Peace be with you all.
I heard the song was the one used by the manson family and other deviant cultures to perform death rituals..... not sure if its true or not...
Helter Skelter is literally about a playground slide -- a spiral slide at a park that was a favorite of Paul's as a kid. The kids literally called it Helter Skelter. Charles Manson, who himself was a failed song writer, and was literally insane, was convinced that the song was about hell and contained hidden messages. So he co-opted the name for his cult. But in reality the song is really a children's song, about a playground spiral slide.
In May, they recorded around 30 songs, all classics, then in January they recorded another dozen. Imagine that output today by a band.
Green Day’s trilogy from 2012 is not far away that work rate
Ah, the same old stuff about the Beatles being mad and hating each other. I would have thought "The Beatles: Get Back" would have finally put these tired old myths to rest.
It didn't. Sad.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 Some people just want to see misery, I guess.
@@Serai3
Yes. And Get Back was great to see over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend with everybody. But now it can Get Lost.
did you miss the bits where they were constantly not getting along and george quits the band for a week? did you miss that episode? the myths are that the get back sessions were fun and frolic, they clearly were not
Very well done, sir. Please cover all The Beatles albums. Then maybe the Rolling Stones. Your channel will blow up immediately. 😎
There are some nice light overview comments in the video, but also some errors that make it feel like not a whole lot of effort was put into it.
You said one of the tracks on here was the first time the 4 Beatles weren't on a song, but Yesterday only featured Paul and was rather a big hit to not have had on the radar when making this video. Also it sounds like Lennon was referred to as 'she' a few times?
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Paul McCartney was NOT "qualified" (as alleged) to replace Beatles Manager Brian Epstein.....and he was never at any time in THAT role.
In fact it was McCartney that drove the biggest wedge into The Beatles chemistry & business management by breaking with the other three Beatles (John, George, Ringo), and instead insisting that his In-Laws (The Eastmans) take over & separately manage all his affairs. At that point The Beatles were not a unified group anymore -- as they had now separate Managers/Handlers.
That was far, far, far more significant in their demise .. than a girlfriend sitting on an Amp in the studio, or having a bed handy by at a time when she was physically pregnant.
The split was due to the complex business strain of them carrying on.....not playing music (as the Rooftop sessions make clear).
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They made you buy and then open the LP to see the full color photos most bands would've put on their cover! I wonder if this was a compromise, an argument with their company perhaps?
I purchased my copy of The White Album as a 15 year old during the spring of 1977z it contained two posters along with a pair of decals. My favourite track is “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” especially the musical bridge. It took me a while to warm up to most of the tracks but all in all it’s a great dual album.
This video is really just a catalog of what songs are on the album and a couple stories everyone knows (Ringo left for a couple weeks, for instance; the other Beatles weren't comfortable with Yoko being present) and on at least two occasions refers to John as "she/her", which is, you know, weird. If you're a fan of The Beatles, this video will let you down.
Right. The narrator sounds American but the English is full of noticeable grammar errors a Russian or a Japanese speaker might make. Weird.
I agree. It sucks as it rehashes crap we've heard for years. No, decades.
It's also full of incorrect statements.
@@docsavage8640 yeah, like the roar of a propeller plane at the beginning of Back In The USSR...what?
The fact nobody else is bringing up the she/her thing is driving me wild. Is this an AI or something?...
Paul did not apologize for magical mystery
A must read is the book by Geoff Emmerick, the Beatles recording engineer, called Here, There, and Everywhere. He started recording the Beatles early on, but quit in frustration, during the White Album, because of the tension. He returned for the Abby Road album, my favorite section of the book. Check it out if you havent already.
It's a great book! Is that the one that rips on Magic Alex as being a con artist?
This is the first and only time I've seen a photo of George holding a Gibson J 200!! I don't think Epiphone were making them at the time, but the Beatles did love Epiphones, as do I!
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I would have never included Rev. 9 on this LP set, but now that it's there, it's hard to imagine the White Album without this bit of noise. It's become an integral part.
I remember back when I used to smoke, it made Alot more sense to be on there lol.
@@fuzzybunny4muny Cool.
Revolution 9 was an intro for Good Night. Without it Good Night lacks charm.
I have an original copy although at this moment I have no idea what number it is. It to me is a Masterpiece among Masterpieces. Being a Beatle fan from the beginning I truly cannot say a have a favorite album because to me they are all my favorites. The Beatles started it all for me and was the main reason I became a musician. Hendrix whom I saw in concert in '68 was the second reason.
Do not know the numbering on my copy but knew it was the Beatles as info was printed on the edge of the cover. It was accidental that I discovered the raised lettering on the face of the cover while I was listening to it for the first time. Thought , "How cool!" once again they did it their way!
I am 3 minutes in and there are already easily avoided factual errors. 1. Ringo didn’t start filming The Magic Christian until 1969, well after The White Album was released. 2. John and George suspected that the Maharishi was a fraud, but later said that they were wrong.
The video looks and sounds great. Do a little more research.
Yeah, I noticed a decided distortion in the presentation.
"Sexy Sadie" was John's commentary on the Maharishi. He felt disillusioned by the "latest and the greatest of them all".
Yeah, actually this whole video is a copy of another video that talks about the white album, but in spanish
@@Destroyer55iamDestroyer sip, cuando vi la miniatura ya dije, uyyyyy
3. Yes, John gave the piano opening to Ob-la-di a whole new twist on the song. But he didn't 'get up with a look of hatred' - he had been out and when he came back he simply walked over to the piano and played what would become the beginning of the song.
This is an incredibly well made video, especially for a new channel. Something to note though, Blackbird was actually written about the American Civil Rights Movement, specifically the Little Rock nine. The original lyrics were "Black woman sitting in Little Rock", but were changed to "Blackbird singing in the dead of night" as to make the song and themes of perseverance more universal. Keep up the great work!
The "Civil Rights" story only started being told recently. That was never the story behind the song. It just sounds cool now.
@@docsavage8640 From what I can tell, Paul did only start telling this story in the 21st century, but I also can't find any articles of Paul talking about the genisis of this song before that period. If you know of any I'd love to see them!
@@ChaosKoopasPlays I heard it once, as about hearing Blackbirds singing in India, this was only 5 years ago
Excellent review and background of this timeless album and a lot of back stories! Can’t believe I’m just the 2nd comment…surely thousands more will enjoy in time!
How ironic..."Obla Di Obla Da", (a song Lennon coined as 'Paul's Granny Music'), was, out of frustration, actually revamped and ultimately based on John's chord sequence. Lol. John had had enough...and showed Paul, what the hell kind of sound it was, Paul was after. Lol. And yet...John still hated it. What a great anecdote!!! Love learning new tid-bits, about the Greatest Band Of All Time...The Beatles. 😎
Right, you can never learn enough about them.
He hated it post-breakup, but if you listen to tapes of them recording it he had no problem with it at all. Lots of myths have spread.
I bought the album the day it came out. I was 16. But after getting over the euphoria of hearing new Beatle songs it began to make me sad. There was something wrong with it so I sold it to a friend. What I didn't realise then was what made me so sad... What my sub conscious was hearing was the beginning of the break up of the Beatles, the end of my youth and the end of the dream of the 60s. And look where the world is now.
Bob Dylan had a double alum in 1966- BLONDE ON BLONDE
Leaving the hardcore psychedelics from the 1967 era, (while other bands and peeps still dwelling in it, not in the last place because of the landslide impact of Pepper) this conceptless album amazes with in-your-face banger pop rock, serious slowies, downright funny and playfullness, few kind of "naturalness" guitar tracks, heartbreaking blues, some mysteriousness, cynism molted in a song, even hitting a tad of reggea, heavy rock, all with your fair swirl of Beatles and technological novelties and intriguing layers and overdubs. You can't say WA isn't diverse. Boy, i wonder how the general crowd in '68 really conceived this album back then.
Love your long-sentence description of the album. It captures what I love about it.
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Thank you
Cheers buddy I really enjoyed that great trivia too
Great video, very well produced. Congratulations on a job well done. 👏 except, the song was called "Not Guilty" like what a person says in court to proclaim their innocence. Yes my favourite Beatle album.
As part of the deal to allow Eri Clapton to play on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," George Harrison made a guest appearance on the Cream song "Badge." He was billed as "L'Angelo Mysterioso" but the lick he plays is instantly recognizable as George. I remember playing "Badge" for a musician my mom was dating at the time, and he said, "They sound like The Beatles." I said, "Of course they sound like The Beatles! That's George Harrison sitting in!"
Also the song "Revolution 9" was based on a French style of electronic music called "musique concrète," invented by Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in France in the late 1940's. They took the newly available tape recorders, recorded the sounds of ordinary life, and then mixed and electronically altered them. Like many of the avant-garde experiments in The Beatles' later years, Yoko Ono introduced musique concrète to John Lennon, and when I was in high school I defended "Revolution 9" to my friends by saying, "Wow! The Beatles are doing musique concrète!" They stared at me and probably thought I'd been doing too many drugs.
Deal was like, solo for wife
Decided to rank all the songs on the album. Top 10 was really tough...and I realized I would rank this album higher if it weren't for a few really bad songs (e.g. Wild...). The top half of this album is SOLID!!!
1. Cry Baby Cry
2. Long Long Long
3. While my guitar Gently Weeps
4. Back in the ussr
5. Im So Tired
6. Dear Prudence
7. Julia
8. Yer Blues
9. Helter Skelter
10. Blackbird
11. Savoy Truffle
12. Piggies
13. I Will
14. Revolution (B side would be higher...)
15. Glass Onion
16. Obladi oblada
17. Mother Nature's Son
18. Birthday
19. Revolution #9
20. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
21. Why Dont we do it in the road
22. Good Night
23. Rocky Racoon
24. The Story of bungalow bill
25. Sexy Sadie
26. Everybody's got something to hide
27. Martha My Dear
28. Honey Pie
29. Dont Pass me by
30. Wild Honey Pie
Wow. Surprised to se Happiness is a Warm Gun so low on the list. Those shifting time signatures and the seemless blending of musical styles is genius, in my opinion. And yes, Cry Baby Cry just might be the best song on the album.
I also LOVE Cry baby cry. Magical.
Makes ya wonder how The White Album would have turned out if it wasn't for all of their internal turmoil. Amazing to think what the impact of Brian Epstein's death had on the group, the fans of their music, and that era - musically and socially.
It's good fun, but I wish "Lady Madonna" and "Hey Jude" popped up near the end. I don't think anyone would have complained if some of the lesser songs had been B-sides.
Also, is it true George presented "Isn't it a Pity" to the band in '66? That could have been a monster on The White Album.
Cut Revolution and Goodnight. Add Hey Jude, Lady Madonna and another Harrison song. That would have been nice.
Go on about the songs, I’m still in awe of the bloody cover. Just when you expected more color and hidden narrative, all is deleted in favor of a heavenly visual white cloud of…. nothing. Except for that bloody number!! Genius genius.