The Beatles (white album) 1968 Mint Condition
john lennon white album very rare
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Monday, May 12, 2008 |
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Also included a rare autographed picture of John lennon..First pressings (1968) - Mono version The standard Apple label. The label DOES have "Sold in the U.K..." statement. My stereo copy has "An E.M.I. recording" printed on the left above the 33 1/3 text, my mono copy does not. I can't say whether that's fixed on all variants though. The sleeves are gatefold and are top opening, the front of which has an embossed "The Beatles", and a unique stamped serial number. Obviously the lower the stamped number the greater the value. (My numbers, bought on the day of release in the county of Essex in England, are : Mono - 0000068 The inner sleeves are black, and the album contains a free poster and four colour prints. The machine stamped matrix on side 1 is YEX 709-1 Side 2: YEX 710-1 Side 3: YEX 711-1 Side 4: YEX 712-2. Side 1 stampers are: 2, GDD Side 2: 4, LG Side 3: 3, GHM Side 4: 1, GOP. This has the catalogue number P-PCS 7067/8 and is very rare.The Beatles tenth official album release, their FIRST double, and their FIRST on Apple. The proper name of the album is simply, "The Beatles", but almost immediately it became known affectionately as "The White Album" due to it's packaging. What is true, is that this was the first release by The Beatles which contains purely solo material. In fact, some tracks are even recorded that way, for example, "Julia" was a solo Lennon recording - his first ever. Once again The Beatles had over a quarter of a million advance orders, and of course went straight to number 1. This was the first double album EVER to get to the top slot where it stayed for 7 weeks in a row. It sold so many, that once again The Beatles also made the singles chart, consequently the ONLY double album to ever enter that chart. By the end of the year, just over a month later, the white album had sold over 4,000,000 copies worldwide, and by the end of 1970 global sales were around 6.5 million. At that time this was the biggest selling double album of all time, but just a few years later was topped by "Saturday Night Fever". The sleeve design was by Richard Hamilton, who suggested the minimalistic approach and the consecutively numbered sleeves which would give a limited edition feel to it. Richard also came up with the montage idea for the large free poster, which included the lyrics on it's rear. The four free colour prints were taken by John Kelly. Original copies also have a top opening sleeve, and black paper inner sleeves.
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