First let’s get the vinyl geeks out of the way: This is the 1978 white vinyl UK reissue of The Beatles, aka The White Album. In Lennon's case, the album cover of his experimental collaboration with Ono Two Virgins featured the couple completely naked, a gesture his bandmates found bewildering and unnecessary.

Instead, the single featured a new, faster version, with heavily distorted guitar and an electric piano solo by Nicky Hopkins. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, was number one in the UK for 27 weeks, until the start of February 1968, [2] having sold 250,000 copies in the first week after release. Like the original vinyl pressings, these CD copies also featured individually stamped numbers on the album's front cover (in this case on the cover of the booklet for the first disc). This original 'BLUE' vinyl copy of The Beatles White album has been kindly loaned to The Beatles Story.Showell’s mastering tends to present low frequencies with more clarity and bloom than on his other pressings (e. This was in accordance with EMI's policy of testing and customising new gear extensively before putting it into use. Collectively, the group wrote around 40 new compositions in Rishikesh, 26 of which would be recorded in rough form at Kinfauns, Harrison's home in Esher, in May 1968. According to MacDonald, the counterculture of the 1960s analysed The Beatles above and beyond all of the band's previous releases.

The final song on side three is Harrison's " Long, Long, Long", part of a chord progression he took from Bob Dylan's " Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". The Ampex reel tape version of The Beatles has become desirable to collectors, as it contains edits on eight tracks not available elsewhere.The song was taped in a single session, and was one of the tracks that Martin felt was " filler" and put on only because the album was a double.