The Beatles: THE BEATLES
Indulgent, sprawling, overflowing with ideas and excess, The Beatles (The White Album) became not only a monument to unbridled creativity but a rock archetype. The band's complex and wide-ranging double album from 1968, it's a glorious and flawed mess, and its failings are as essential to its character as its triumphs. People love this album not because every song is a masterpiece, but because even the throwaways have their place. The Beatles sound human on it. You feel like you're really getting to know them, just as they're starting to get to know themselves. Their amazing run between the latter part of 1965 through 1967 made them seem like a band apart, infallible musical geniuses always looking for another boundary to break.
Tracklist:
1.Back In The U.S.S.R. 2.Dear Prudence 3.Glass Onion 4.Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 5.Wild Honey Pie 6.The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill 7.While My Guitar 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 Sadie 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
Lineup:
John Lennon - lead, harmony and background vocals, acoustic, lead, rhythm and bass guitars, piano, Hammond organ, harmonium, Mellotron, harmonica, saxophone mouthpiece, extra drums (on "Back In The U.S.S.R.") and assorted percussion (tambourine, handclaps and vocal percussion), tapes, tape loops and sound effects (electronic and home-made), Paul McCartney - lead, harmony and background vocals, bass, acoustic, lead and rhythm guitars, acoustic and electric pianos, Hammond organ, assorted percussion (timpani, tambourine, cowbell, hand shake bell, handclaps, foot taps and vocal percussion), drums (on "Back In The U.S.S.R.", "Dear Prudence", "Wild Honey Pie" and "Martha My Dear"), recorder, George Harrison - lead, harmony and background vocals, lead, rhythm, acoustic and bass guitars, Hammond organ (on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" and "Savoy Truffle"), extra drums (on "Back In The U.S.S.R.") and assorted percussion (tambourine, handclaps and vocal percussion) and sound effects, Ringo Starr - drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, bongos, cymbals, maracas and vocal percussion), piano and sleigh bell (on "Don't Pass Me By"), lead vocals (on "Don't Pass Me By" and "Good Night") and backing vocals (on "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill"). Additional musicians: Yoko Ono - backing vocals, lead vocals and handclaps on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill", backing vocals on "Birthday", speech, tapes and sound effects on "Revolution 9", Mal Evans - backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence", handclaps on "Birthday", trumpet on "Helter Skelter", Eric Clapton - lead guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", Jack Fallon - violin on "Don't Pass Me By", Pattie Harrison - backing vocals on "Birthday", Jackie Lomax - backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence", John McCartney - backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence", Maureen Starkey - backing vocals on "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill". Session musicians: Ted Barker - trombone on "Martha My Dear", Leon Calvert - trumpet and flugelhorn on "Martha My Dear", Henry Datyner, Eric Bowie, Norman Lederman and Ronald Thomas - violin on "Glass Onion", Bernard Miller, Dennis McConnell, Lou Soufier and Les Maddox - violin on "Martha My Dear", Reginald Kilby - cello on "Glass Onion" and "Martha My Dear", Eldon Fox - cello on "Glass Onion", Frederick Alexander - cello on "Martha My Dear", Harry Klein - saxophone on "Savoy Truffle" and "Honey Pie", Dennis Walton, Ronald Chamberlain, Jim Chest and Rex Morris - saxophone on "Honey Pie", Raymond Newman and David Smith - clarinet on "Honey Pie", Art Ellefson, Danny Moss and Derek Collins - tenor sax on "Savoy Truffle", Ronnie Ross and Bernard George - baritone sax on "Savoy Truffle", Alf Reece - tuba on "Martha My Dear", The Mike Sammes Singers - backing vocals on "Good Night", Stanley Reynolds and Ronnie Hughes - trumpet on "Martha My Dear", Chris Shepard - stumpf fiddle on "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill", Tony Tunstall - French horn on "Martha My Dear", John Underwood and Keith Cummings - viola on "Glass Onion", Leo Birnbaum and Henry Myerscough - viola on "Martha My Dear". Production: George Martin – producer, executive producer, string, brass, clarinet, orchestral arrangements and conducting, piano on "Rocky Raccoon", Chris Thomas – producer, Mellotron on "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill", harpsichord on "Piggies", piano on "Long, Long, Long", electric piano, organ and saxophone arrangement on "Savoy Truffle", Ken Scott – engineer and mixer, Geoff Emerick – engineer, speech on "Revolution 9", Barry Sheffield – engineer (Trident Studio)