THE BEATLES-THE WHITE ALBUM-RARE PARLOPHONE BLACK & SILVER PCSJ.7067/8 1968

	£		150
	$		179

  THE BEATLES-THE BEATLES              TYPE DOUBLE LP-STEREOLABEL/PRESSING INFO

PARLOPHONE SILVER & BLACK with matrix numbers: YEX  709 710 711 712 - NO SUFFIX NUMBERS

CATALOGUE NUMBER PCSJ 7067/8YEAR OF RELEASE1968COUNTRY OF RELEASESOUTH AFRICASLEEVE TYPE GATEFOLD-DISTINCTIVE FULLY LAMINATED with TOP OPENINGS. EMBOSSED FRONT "THE BEATLES" and NUMBERED A 14980 with DOUBLE INTERNAL FLIPBACKS and "ARTONE PRESS" LOGO ON INNER GATEFOLDINSERTS/EXTRAS

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                                          GRADING/CONDITION                   DISC(s)EXCELLENT NICE CLEAN pair of records with only VERY LIGHT playwear and LIGHT surface handling marks. PLAYS REALLY WELL WITH  A REALLY GOOD STEREO REPRODUCTIONLABELSEXCELLENT+                  

(CLEAN   LABELS  with  NO      Writing rips tears  stickers/removal marks with LIGHT spindleusage and  LIGHT handling  storage and ageing marks)

                  SLEEVE Front board/Inner gatefoldEX

CLEAN SLEEVE with NO writing rips or tears stickers or remains. Laminate is clean complete and shiny with light ageing and storage wear. embossed lettering is unworn, and the number is complete clear and unworn. INNER GATEFOLD is  unworn with just light ageing, and the faint impression of an old pen name right upper.

Rear BoardEX Rear board is much as the front, clean  in good condition with LIGHT ageing and LIGHT handling only and a bit of pressure markingFlipbacksEX ALL 4 Internal flipbacks are complete and stuck fast with LIGHT wear onlySpineGSpine is a bit of a let down. There is a 2 inch clear tape repair at the top and various bits of laminate peel and loss.Top   & front edgesEX Left and bottom Edges have very light wearOpeningEX- Openings have LIGHTISH wear and usageCornersVGAll  corners have  some wear with rounding and buffing. INNER /EXTRAS                                

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                                                           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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