The Beatles' White Album 40th Anniversary
Side Four: The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles’ artistic experimentation—and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end.
Forty years later, the impact of the Beatles’ self-titled ‘return to rock’ stands as a statement of a disenchanted group trying to have fun while slowly fracturing. The PopMatters staff celebrates this undeniable achievement with a five day, song-by-song, side-by-LP side breakdown of the entire White Album.
Friday, November 21 2008
The White Album: Side Four
The potential breakthrough and the impending breakup, the final side celebrates the Beatles' artistic experimentation -- and the creative contradictions that signaled their eventual end.
Thursday, November 20 2008
The White Album: Side Three
It's back to basics once again as the band finds the musical muscle memory to mesh all their influences into seven sensational tracks.
Wednesday, November 19 2008
The White Album: Side Two
It's the Beatles 'unplugged' -- from stardom, from pressures, from the friendship that held them together -- while simultaneously reaching inward and outward.
Tuesday, November 18 2008
The White Album: Side One
It's all guitars and good times as the Fab Four rediscover the joys of jamming -- as well as the hidden pain and problems poised to tear them apart.
Monday, November 17 2008
Birthday: The White Album Turns 40
In the first day of PopMatters' week-long celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' self-titled double album, Bill Gibron and Zeth Lundy discuss the record's importance and impact, and why it continues to resonate within popular culture some four decades later.
