The Beatles
The Beatles

THE REVIEW

A completely white cover, a remarkable novelty for the era when rock graphics were making great strides, white, therefore, a color that contains all colors, is light, the right color for the kaleidoscope that the four create in 1968.

"The Beatles" could not have been conceived by ordinary people, artists; they create other, let's say more ordinary things; from the title alone, it is clear that the trademark is a guarantee of quality, but things go well beyond the rosiest expectations, even though they had not been composing together for some time, recording very few times as a group, they still manage to produce what is the manifesto of their art, here there is everything that could be done with a song at the time, country, heavy rock, retro atmospheres, and even the boldest experiments.
Many claim that the "white album" finally shows the true face of Harrison, Lennon, and McCartney, their creative veins are free to be indulged, and Martin is always willing to put his talent as an arranger and producer at the service of "his boys," and thus an extraordinary tour in the world of music is assembled; one lands with a "BOAC" flight from Miami Beach in a new country, where popular culture is an absolute protagonist, it involves you, it helps you grow, with its fragile figures, the "dear Prudence who must greet the brand new day" and the "Julia" daughter of the ocean calling John.

If Lennon searches in his songs for portraits of problematic life and on the fringes of society, often through direct attacks, "Sexy Sadie" against the "dirty old man" Maharishi Yogi or journalists who describe a "monkey" his partner Joko, McCartney explores the more romantic side of couple life in "Ob-la-di, Ob-la-da" with "Desmond has a barrow in the market place and Molly is the singer in a band," or his new love, the real one, in "I Will".
The difference between the two seems clear-cut, but in reality, it's not so easy to separate the two souls of the group, Paul writes the hardest track in their history "Helter Skelter", Lennon the sweet "Good Night" for Ringo's peaceful voice after the delirium of "Revolution 9", McCartney writes the most beautiful civil rights song (remember we're in '68) "Blackbird", Lennon plays with a fictitious story in "The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill". Very often the two try to swap roles, succeeding, something that will not happen again, because the following "Abbey Road" will reestablish more marked stylistic differences, here's a valid reason to consider this work the best example of their genius in constructing songs, with few notes but great inventiveness, which precisely separates mere talent from genius. If then one considers Harrison's high inspiration, the circle closes perfectly, rare and absolute perfection that is difficult to achieve in a double album.

Listening to "The Beatles" is truly an experience to have, one cannot say to love music if one hasn't heard this work, it is a too important cornerstone in musical culture.