White Album:pinnacle of Beatles & Music in general

Actually I heard all the covers were made out of brown cardboard and he painted them all white by hand.

dr wu23 wrote: Stool Man wrote: One of my favourite stories about Lennon & McCartney is from the late 70s.  Paul was visiting John, and they were watching "Saturday Night Live" on TV.  On the show, an offer of $200 dollars was made for The Beatles to reunite and perform on the show.  Knowing the TV studio was local, Paul and John considered actually going down there and doing it, but decided they were too tired.  One of those little 'what if' moments in music history - if only they hadn't been too tired!   Back to The White Album - what does everyone think of Richard Hamilton's artwork?   What art work....?

I like the poster and the photos. The cover must have taken him ages.

^Naked is better....in more ways that one!  

Stool Man wrote: One of my favourite stories about Lennon & McCartney is from the late 70s.  Paul was visiting John, and they were watching "Saturday Night Live" on TV.  On the show, an offer of $200 dollars was made for The Beatles to reunite and perform on the show.  Knowing the TV studio was local, Paul and John considered actually going down there and doing it, but decided they were too tired.  One of those little 'what if' moments in music history - if only they hadn't been too tired!   Back to The White Album - what does everyone think of Richard Hamilton's artwork?

Stool Man wrote: meanwhile, back in 1968.... 3rd?  Behind Nirvana?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albums_considered_the_greatest_ever

meanwhile, Back in the USSR...

Dean wrote: earlyprog wrote: Lennon and McCartney worked closely together on songs in the early years, rarely in the latter years. In fact they worked together more closely than often portrayed in public. This is documented in Lennon's first wife Cynthia's book "John". Whatever - it was long time before November 1968 so your claim that "[t]he lack of development in Lennon's and Macca's music after The White Album coincides with the replacement of the Lennon/McCartney collaboration with the Lennon/Ono partnership" is not wholely accurate.

They'd pretty much stopped writing together in 1964 - A Hard Days Night is clearly Lennon's rocky songs and McCartney's more melodic ones. On occasions they contributed bits to one another's songs (such as We Can Work It Out) but generally they wrote separately.

Comments on this album by the Fab Four:

One of my favourite stories about Lennon & McCartney is from the late 70s.  Paul was visiting John, and they were watching "Saturday Night Live" on TV.  On the show, an offer of $200 dollars was made for The Beatles to reunite and perform on the show.  Knowing the TV studio was local, Paul and John considered actually going down there and doing it, but decided they were too tired.  One of those little 'what if' moments in music history - if only they hadn't been too tired!

Edited by Stool Man - April 03 2013 at 07:33

earlyprog wrote: The lack of development in Lennon's and Macca's music after The White Album coincides with the replacement of the Lennon/McCartney collaboration with the Lennon/Ono partnership. I guess Paul and John needed each other to progress individually and together.   Just an idea and for the record.

The Doctor wrote: Revolver is my favorite and the pinnacle of their career as far as I'm concerned, with Magical Mystery Tour in second (yes, I prefer it to Pepper's), Rubber Soul, Pepper's, Abbey Road follow.