Beatles - White Album, 1st UK press, stereo, 0335784

	£		46
	$		60

The Beatles - The Beatles (White album) no. 0335784

ORIGINAL COPY. FIRST UK PRESSING. Released 1968. Stereo. APPLE Records, catalogue number; PCS 7067/8.

 Great sounding numbered stereo White album.

These have generally been selling for £100-£250 in this condition.

Housed in a fully laminated, top-loading 'Garrod & Lofthouse' stereo cover, numbered: No. 0335784

Matrix numbers: YEX 709-1, 710-1, 711-1, 712-1
Stamper numbers: GMT, GRG, GOH, RU

Overall Sleeve Condition : VERY GOOD

Outer gatefold cover: Laminated top opening front cover. Grey printed number 0335784, embossed with `The Beatles'. Some very light creases and tiny scuffs, very slight fading. Some laminate lift along spine edge. Slight worn spine at top.

Inner gatefold cover: Excellent. Laminated, shiny.

Edges: Light rubbing.

Corners: Very light rubs.

Top Opening Slit: Very slightly roughened.

Vinyl Condition, Visual: EXCELLENT

Some very light surface marks and signs of play, but no serious damage visible.

Vinyl Condition, Audible: EXCELLENT

This copy plays superbly. No faults, just the odd tiny static crackle. Great sounding and problem free, almost unplayed sounding.

Label Condition : EXCELLENT

Tracklist:

1. Back In The U.S.S.R.
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Ob-La-De Ob-La-Da
5. Wild Honey Pie
6. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
7. While My 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
18. Birthday
19. Yer Blues
20. Mother Nature's Son
21. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
22. Sexy Sady
23. Helter Skelter
24. Long Long Long
25. Revolution 1
26. Honey Pie
27. Savoy Truffle
28. Cry Baby Cry
29. Revolution 9
30. Good Night

Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. 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. Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the British blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced, so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrète collage "Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry," rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn't reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning — the music hall romp "Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal roar of "Helter Skelter." Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy Truffle," the haunting "Long, Long, Long," and even the silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess.