On the 50 th year of the first double album of Beatles, I refresh your memory of this great album. It is the ninth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 22 November 1968. A double album, its plain white sleeve has no graphics or text other than the band's name embossed,
This album has an Indian connection.Most of the songs on the album were written during March and April 1968 at a Transcendental Meditation course in Rishikesh, India. This album reached No. 1 on the charts in both the United Kingdom and the United States and has since been viewed by some critics as one of the greatest albums of all time.
Edwin Faust of Stylus Magazine described The Beatles as "foremost an album about musical purity (as the album cover and title suggest). Whereas on prior Beatles albums, the band was getting into the habit of mixing several musical genres into a single song, on The White Album every song is faithful to its selected genre. The rock n' roll tracks are purely rocki n' roll; the folk songs are purely folk; the surreal pop numbers are purely surreal pop, and the experimental piece is purely experimental.
Side one
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Back in the U.S.S.R."McCartney2:43
2."Dear Prudence"Lennon3:56
3."Glass Onion"Lennon2:18
4."Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"McCartney3:08
5."Wild Honey Pie"McCartney0:52
6."The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"Lennon, with Yoko Ono3:14
7."While My Guitar Gently Weeps(George Harrison)Harrison4:45
8."Happiness Is a Warm Gun"
Lennon2:43




Total length:
23:39

Side two
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
9."Martha My Dear"McCartney2:28
10."I'm So Tired"Lennon2:03
11."Blackbird"McCartney2:18
12."Piggies(George Harrison)Harrison2:04
13."Rocky Raccoon"McCartney3:33
14."Don't Pass Me By(Richard Starkey)Starr3:51
15."Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"McCartney1:41
16."I Will"McCartney1:46
17."Julia"
Lennon2:54
Total length:22:38
Side three
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
1."Birthday"McCartney with Lennon2:42
2."Yer Blues"Lennon4:01
3."Mother Nature's Son"McCartney2:48
4."Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey"Lennon2:24
5."Sexy Sadie"Lennon3:15
6."Helter Skelter"McCartney4:29
7."Long, Long, Long(George Harrison)Harrison3:04
Total length:22:43



Side four
No.TitleLead vocalsLength
8."Revolution 1"Lennon4:15
9."Honey Pie"McCartney2:41
10."Savoy Truffle(George Harrison)Harrison2:54
11."Cry Baby Cry"Lennon, with McCartney3:02
12."Revolution 9"Speaking from Lennon, Harrison, Ono and George Martin8:22
13."Good Night"Starr3:13