THE BEATLES-WHITE ALBUM APPLE 1ST PRESS STEREO PCS.7067 1968

	£		52
	$		69

THE BEATLES-THE BEATLES TYPE DOUBLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO

APPLE 1ST PRESS WITH DARKER LABEL PRINTING AND "SOLD IN U.K." LABEL TEXT and MATRIX NUMBERS: YEX 709-1 YEX 710-1 YEX 711-1 and YEX 712-1

EXCELLENT+ (Do you know the best thing about selling one of these.Its you get to listen to the White Album, simple as that. I know you can "virtually" listen to the thing anytime anywhere these days, but you can't sit and enjoy the sensations that go with the physical prescence of the thing, which after all is why we were put on this earth wasnt it. Pleasure that is.

Ok so thats waxing lyrical out of the way. The records themselves are in nice condition with just light playwear and a few light surface marks none of which have any impact on the reproduction and as I have just listened to the entire album am confident there are are no surprises and apart from the occasional bit of light background the audio quality is spot on and you can listen to it in comfort.)

EXCELLENT+ (NICE CLEAN LABELS with NO writing rips tears repairs user stickers or removal marks has some light spindle marking more on record 1 than 2, which I think is nearly always the case)

NICE SLEEVE AND ONE OF THE BETTER PRESERVED EXAMPLES-There are NO rips or tears stickers or removal marks or evidence of ever been written on-The front laminate is clean uncreased and shiny with only a little light ageing and handling wear, NO ringwear and just a VERY LIGHT pressure mark. The embossed "The BEATLES" is proud and unworn and the stamped number is complete and very visible and you can feel it if you rub your finger over the top of it lightly. INNER GATEFOLD is clean unmarked and unworn with nice clear writing and the internal spine is unworn and unflattened.

POSTER: EXCELLENT (COMPLETE with no major tears has been neatly taped on a couple of the folds and has quite a bit of small handling type creases.)

INNER SLEEVES: VERY GOOD- (INCLUDED for completeness. Both are complete but have been repaired with clear tape around the centre holes and along bottom edge,and one is heavily frayed along the opening. Both records have been rehoused in plain sleeves for shipping.

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.