THE BEATLES S/T (The White Album) VG++ 1968 Apple 1st PRESS All Inserts & Xtra

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Vinyl:  VG++ Play Tested. Sounds Great!  Apple Labels are Clean.  This is the 1968 Apple Los Angeles 1st Pressing!  Possibly one of the Top 10 Rock Albums...certainly on Rolling Stone's 500 Best Albums of All Time!! all music gives it 5 stars!  Perhaps The Beatles' Finest Moment.  
Cover:  VG+  (see photos; some ring wear. has the initials "C. Powell" printed inconspicuously on the inner spine...Whether this was Cynthia Powell's White Album is unknown.  Did she go back to calling herself Cynthia Powell when she and John split??)  This 1st Pressing is an original Glossy Pasted Die-Cut Cover, with "The Beatles" in relief.  Numbered A 0334678.  Not only does it have the Original Glossy Poster and the Original Glossy Photos of The Lads, this listing includes The Super Rare Original Artwork of The White Album in a NM- Poster!!!! (Apples and persimmons not included--see photos :)  Check out beatlesebooks.com/white-album for a comprehensive history of this historic album--including the artwork that was nearly used for the cover--including the artwork you'll receive with this listing!  I will send it rolled in a crush-proof plastic tube in a separate mailing at no extra cost to you.  The Inner Sleeves are the stock plain paper with holes punched in them so you can read the labels.   The Original Collage Poster has no pinholes but a tiny paper separation in the middle folds--it's 50 years old this year!  The Glossy Photos of the Lads have no pin holes and are solid; no creases, no tears.    

Goldmine Standards.   See Review Below!

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AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine  [-]

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.