THE BEATLES-THE BEATLES (WHITE ALBUM) APPLE HOLLAND 1ST PRESS STEREO 1968

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THE BEATLES-THE BEATLES TYPE DOUBLE LP-STEREO LABEL/PRESSING INFO APPLE-HOLLAND 1ST PRESS ON HEAVYWEIGHT VINYL WITH ORIGINAL U.K. CATALOGUE NUMBERS (LATER PRESSINGS USED THE EUROPEAN 5C PREFIXED NUMERIC NUMBERS) WITH EMI U.K. MATRIX NUMBERS YEX 709-1 YEX 710-1 YEX 711-1 YEX 712-1 CATALOGUE NUMBER PCS 7067/PCS 7068 YEAR OF RELEASE 1968 COUNTRY OF RELEASE HOLLAND SLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD FULLY LAMINATED TOP OPENING WITH EMBOSSED The BEATLES on the FRONT BOARD AND NUMBERED 0045181 WITH INTERNAL FLIPBACKS AND Stereo STAMPTED ON REAR TOP RIGHT,and manaufactured by Heinrich Nicolaus G.m.b.H. INSERTS/EXTRAS 4 BEATLES COLOUR PRINTS and LARGE FOLDOUT LYRIC AND PICTURE POSTER   GRADING/CONDITION DISC(s) TOP EXCELLENT+(REALLY NICE PAIR OF RECORDS pressed on lovely 60's heavyweight vinyl and in BRILLIANT CONDITION with NO evidence of ever having being played and just THE LIGHTEST handling marks,and they PLAY GREAT with a a rich sound that you are never going to get anywhere other than the original pressings LABELS

MINT- ( LOVELY CLEAN LABELS with NO writing stickers,rips or tears or evidence of heavy play,and TRACE spindleusage)

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Front board EX+ NICE AND CLEAN with nice shiny laminate with NO ringwear NO dulling through excessive rubbing and just VERY LIGHT storage and handling wear.INNER GATEFOLD is clean and umarked with no laminate cracking or loss to the internal spine and MINIMAL wear. Rear board EX+ MUCH AS the front board with just VERY LIGHT overall storage and handling wear. Flipbacks EX+ INTERNAL flipbacks are complete with lifting cracking or laminate peeling Spine VG+ WIDE spine is uncrushed,has some wear at the bottom and the laminate has split. Edges EX BOTTOM and side edges have some light rubbing wear to the middle with some laminate loss Opening EX+ THE TOP openingsa have VERY LIGHT wear and VERY LIGHT usage Corners EX OUTER 4 corners and top of spine have just VERY LIGHT wear.Spine bottom has wear where the laminate has gone on the spine.   INNER /EXTRAS

COLOUR PRINTS: EXCELLENT++ (ALL 4 prints are in top condition with no writing rips tear creases or folded corners..

POSTER: EXCELLENT (CLEAN with no writing rips tears wear to the folds evidence of having being hung on a wall or folded over corners,just has a small stain on one edge that looks a wine glass ring to me,see 1st picture of poster below)

  DETAILS

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.

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