The White Album

The Beatles (also known as The White Album) is the ninth studio album and only double album by the English rock band The Beatles.

Tracks

 * 1) Back in the USSR
 * 2) Dear Prudence
 * 3) Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
 * 4) Wild Honey Pie
 * 5) While My Guitar Gently Weeps
 * 6) Blackbird
 * 7) Julia
 * 8) Birthday
 * 9) Helter Skelter

History
The Beatles’ ninth original UK album and their 15th in the United States, was their first double-length release. Commonly known as The White Album, the self-titled collection of 30 songs stands as a majestic cornucopia of styles, born from one of the group’s most creative periods.

Although financially secure, critically and commercially acclaimed and assured as figureheads of popular music, by the summer of 1968, The Beatles were in a degree of turmoil. The previous year they’d achieved possibly their crowning glory in Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and suffered their first major artistic failure in the Magical Mystery Tour television film. By 1968 The Beatles’ world had changed immeasurably from their early days. Having stopped touring in 1966, they were set free to explore the possibilities from inside the studio and began enjoying the time that their fortunes allowed. Their musical output may have slowed from the mid-1960s, but their creativity was as strong as ever. After Sgt Pepper changed the world, the world keenly awaited The Beatles’ next step. They had released just the six-track Magical Mystery Tour EP and the Lady Madonna single since then and there was widespread speculation in the press that they were a spent force. While recording the album, the group was in the process of launching the multimedia business Apple Corps, while coping with various upheavals including drug busts, changing relationships and substance abuse.