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Back for 50th-anniversary reissue, Beatles White album is still inspiring

It is the sprawling mixture of music and ideas on the record that makes is so fascinating, especially in hindsight

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Mark Goodall | The Coversation
For an LP with a plain white cover, the Beatles eponymous ninth studio album – more commonly referred to as the “White Album” – has generated a mass of symbolism since its release 50 years ago in November 1968.
With its glossy all-white gatefold cover, black inner sleeves and portraits of the Fab Four hidden inside the sleeve, the influence of the White Album can be traced across a huge range of cultural artefacts. For example, the author of New Journalism, Joan Didion, named her study of the end of the 1960s dream, The White

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