THE BEATLES - " White Album " Mono Top-Loader COMPLETE 1st PRESS 4 Pics & Poster

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THE BEATLES

" WHITE ALBUM "

Number - 0297354 

FIRST PRESS -  MONO

PMC 7067 / 8

TOP LOADING

4 x PICTURES  & POSTER

ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS

RARE ORIGINAL WHITE SPACER

SLEEVE NUMBER = 0297354 IN BOLD PRINT

SLEEVE = EX - TOP LOADING G. & LOFTHOUSE GATEFOLD WITH FLAPS INSIDE GATEFOLD.

SLEEVE = V. SLIGHT YELLOWING TO EDGES AND SLIGHT KNOCKS AT CORNERS

SPINE = EX - NO RIPS OR TEARS ALL LEGIBLE

ORIGINAL BLACK INNERS = EX - light tear at centre of one inner - barely noticeable.

POSTER = VG- ..Has some slight wear/tear at creases.

4 x PHOTOS = NM

WHITE SPACER = EX ( used to separate the sets of photos ) - this is usually missing.

VINYL = VG - some light scuffs / hairlines - plays great all through both sides maybe some faint crackles,here and there.

MATRIX = XEX 709 - 1 / XEX 710 - 2 / XEX 711 - 1 / XEX 712 - 1

DARK GREEN LABELS HAVE " SOLD IN UK ....." Text

SIDE 1 = 1 @ 9.0`clock - G P @ 3.0`clock

SIDE 2 = 1 @ 9.0`clock - G A A @ 3.0`clock

SIDE 3 = 6 @ 9.0`clock - G G P @ 3.0`clock

SIDE 4 = 5 @ 9.0`clock - O O @ 3.0`clock

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 TRACK LISTING ....

All songs written and composed by Lennon–McCartney, except where noted.

[edit] Personnel

• John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; acoustic, lead, bass and rhythm guitars; keyboards (electric and acoustic pianos, Hammond organ, harmonium and mellotron); extra drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, maracas, cymbals, thumping on the back of an acoustic guitar, handclaps and vocal percussion); harmonica, whistling and saxophone; tapes, tape loops and sound effects (electronic and home-made)[17]
• Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; acoustic, lead, rhythm and bass guitars; keyboards (electric and acoustic pianos and 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." and "Dear Prudence"); recorder and flugelhorn; sound effects[17]
• George Harrison – lead, harmony and background vocals; acoustic, rhythm, bass and lead guitars; Hammond organ; extra drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, handclaps and vocal percussion) and sound effects[17]
• Ringo Starr – drums and assorted percussion (tambourine, bongos, cymbals, maracas and vocal percussion); electric piano and sleigh bell (on "Don't Pass Me By"), lead vocals (on "Don't Pass Me By" and "Good Night") and backing vocals ("The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill")[17]

• Eric Clapton – lead guitar on "While my Guitar Gently Weeps"[19]
• Mal Evans – backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence",[58] handclaps on "Birthday",[59] trumpet on "Helter Skelter"[60]
• Jack Fallon – violin on "Don't Pass Me By"[61]
• Grant Mansell - drums on "Martha My Dear"[62]
• Pattie Harrison – backing vocals on "Birthday"[59]
• Jackie Lomax – backing vocals and handclaps on "Dear Prudence"[58]
• Maureen Starkey – backing vocals on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"[62]
• Yoko Ono – backing vocals, brief lead vocals and handclaps on "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill",[62] backing vocals on "Birthday",[59] speech, tapes and sound effects on "Revolution 9"[63]

• Ted Barker – trombone on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Leon Calvert – trumpet and flugelhorn on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Henry Datyner, Eric Bowie, Norman Lederman, and Ronald Thomas – violin on "Glass Onion"[65]
• Bernard Miller, Dennis McConnell, Lou Soufier and Les Maddox – violin on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Reginald Kilby – cello on "Glass Onion"[65] and "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Eldon Fox – cello on "Glass Onion"[65]
• Frederick Alexander – cello on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Harry Klein – saxophone on "Savoy Truffle"[66] and "Honey Pie"[67]
• Dennis Walton, Ronald Chamberlain, Jim Chest, and Rex Morris – saxophone on "Honey Pie"[67]
• Raymond Newman and David Smith – clarinet on "Honey Pie"[67]
• Art Ellefson, Danny Moss, and Derek Collins – tenor sax on "Savoy Truffle"[66]
• Ronnie Ross and Bernard George – baritone sax on "Savoy Truffle"[66]
• Alf Reece – tuba on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• The Mike Sammes Singers – backing vocals on "Good Night"[68]
• Stanley Reynolds and Ronnie Hughes – trumpet on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• Tony Tunstall – French horn on "Martha My Dear"[64]
• John Underwood and Keith Cummings – viola on "Glass Onion"[65]
• Leo Birnbaum and Henry Myerscough – viola on "Martha My Dear

From Wiki....Songs

Although most of the songs on any given Beatles album are usually credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting team, that description is often misleading, and rarely more so than on The Beatles. With this album, each of the four band members began to showcase the range and depth of his individual songwriting talents, and to display styles that would be carried over to his eventual solo career. Indeed, some songs that the individual Beatles were working on during this period eventually were released on solo albums. According to the bootlegged album of the songs recorded at Kinfauns, George Harrison's Esher home, these include Lennon's "Look at Me" and "Child of Nature", eventually reworked as "Jealous Guy"; McCartney's "Junk" and "Teddy Boy"; and Harrison's "Not Guilty" and "Circles."[21][22]

Many of the songs on the album display experimentation with unlikely musical genres, borrowing directly from such sources as 1930s dance-hall music (in "Honey Pie"), classical chamber music (in "Piggies"), the avant-garde sensibilities of Yoko Ono and John Cage (in "Revolution 9"), country-style music (Ringo Starr's "Don't Pass Me By"), a western-style saloon ballad ("Rocky Raccoon"), and the lush sentimentality of Henry Mancini's film scores (in "Good Night"). Such diversity was largely unprecedented in global pop music in 1968, and the album’s sprawling approach provoked (and continues to provoke) both praise and criticism from observers.[1] "Revolution 9", in particular, a densely layered eight-minute-and-thirteen-second sound collage, has attracted both interest and disapproval from fans and music critics over the years.

The only western instrument available to the group during their Indian visit was the acoustic guitar, and thus most of the songs on The Beatles were written and first performed on that instrument.[citation needed] Some of these songs remained acoustic on The Beatles (notably "Rocky Raccoon", "Blackbird", "Julia", "Cry Baby Cry", "I Will" and "Mother Nature's Son") and were recorded in the studio either solo, or by only part of the group.

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