The double album The Beatles (or The White Album, as it came to be known) shows the first signs of disintegration in the once tight-knit group. Not that the individual members suffer from a lack of inspiration - on the contrary, they seem to shake up the songs - but they increasingly choose to work them out on their own. Instead of a focused group piece, The White Album is a motley collection of
… individual pieces, masterfully forged into unity by producer George Martin's sophisticated track list. The white cover represents the return to simplicity, after the far-reaching studio experiments of Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour. John Lennon in particular benefits from this, and he himself considered his songs on the white double (Dear Prudence, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, I'm So Tired) to be his best. Julia is a key number in his oeuvre, an ode to both his mother and Yoko Ono. McCartney excels in acoustic miniatures (Blackbird, Mother Nature's Son, I Will), plus Helter Skelter delivers the dirtiest rocker in the Beatles repertoire. For the first time there is also plenty of room for contributions from George Harrison (with a guest appearance by Eric Clapton on his While My Guitar Gently Weeps) and even Ringo (Don't Pass Me By). For the first time ever, the sound collage Revolution # 9 has no song structure and is one of the most controversial songs of The Beatles. (MS) in addition to delivering the dirtiest rocker in the Beatles repertoire with Helter Skelter. For the first time there is also plenty of room for contributions from George Harrison (with a guest appearance by Eric Clapton on his While My Guitar Gently Weeps) and even Ringo (Don't Pass Me By). For the first time ever, the sound collage Revolution # 9 has no song structure and is one of the most controversial songs of The Beatles. (MS) in addition to delivering the dirtiest rocker in the Beatles repertoire with Helter Skelter. For the first time, there is also plenty of room for contributions from George Harrison (with a guest appearance by Eric Clapton on his While My Guitar Gently Weeps) and even Ringo (Don't Pass Me By). The sound collage Revolution # 9 has for the first time no song structure and is one of the most controversial songs of The Beatles. (MS)more