“It was a mistake doing 4 sides.” Then 2 years later he releases a 6 sided solo record.

I remember when my older brother brought home "The White Album" back in 1968. I was in awe of this! It was like The Beatles evolved again! To me it was a _Magical Masterpiece_ ! And here it is 54 years later and I sill think the same! I will forever listen to the album all 4-sides! ❤🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️🚶🏿‍♂️💗

The White Album is quite simply superb.

It's the WHITE ALBUM. With 20/20 hind sight, it's wonderful. It couldn't be anything but 4 sides. It's who and what they were at the time. I still listen to it. And when I do it's generally played from beginning to end. I do the same with Exile on Main Street. Whole LP, all the way through. They're big. But I believe, to get the full impact and genius of either, that's how they need to be listened to.

So many great songs on this album, and so varied in style. Savoy Truffle has over the years become my favourite track on the album… just as George has become my favourite Beatle… parallel lines indeed!

My favorite album. There’s always something unique and wonderful about things that the general public dismiss as inferior.

I love how honest and self-critical the Beatles are. They don’t put on airs, they don’t hide behind some manufactured image.

My uncle David used to play this album all the time when he got back from Viet Nam. He always played the whole thing. Sometimes he would skip Revolution #9 but usually not. I sort of took it for granted that music could be this good when I was a kid.

My favorite album easily.

It was my favorite album when it came out. My friends and I listened to it all the way through until we could sing or hum all four sides - except for Number 9, which is hard to hum, but I can still hear it in my head all these years later.

Cry Baby Cry is my favorite song on the album. Very medieval and gothic feel....Lennon masterpiece (again).

My favourite album ever!

It wasn't a mistake doing 4 sides. it's perfect.

Can't imagine anything being any different than the exact thing they put out. Rarely do artists hear what the listeners hear, in this case a masterpiece. They'll be so critical while we're all like, what? What are you talking about? This is like perfect. But I guess if they weren't so hard on themselves, we wouldn't have this masterpiece and others they always seemed to produce.

More than any other Beatles Album, The White Album is like it's own organism changing forms throughout the years. People have different opinions on it depending on their age and how many times they've listened to it. I can easily see it being condensed to a single album, but I'm glad it wasn't because it's a unique experience different to Sgt Peppers and Abbey Road.

So cool, thanks for posting this!

I’ve never heard anyone say a Beatles album is to long

I just about wore this album out in the first week I had it. I even rigged up an old record player to play backwards so I could listen to No.9. It's a fucking brilliant album.

After listening to this album for 30+ years, I think George has my favorite songs on the white album i.e. long long long and savoy truffle. probably the best on this record even piggies has greatness Fantastic tracks I can’t hear “while my guitar…” anymore

A 20 song album would be perfect. Five songs on each side.

But George ended up after they broke up putting out a triple album. Oh well.

I think it's very different when it's the current Beatles album as opposed to one of many. It's one of my favourites, but I'd likely have had more reservations I was there to buy it in 68.

Fascinating how it was the fans and listeners who gave “The Beatles”, the “The White Album” moniker, to make all references easier. The Beatles themselves, soon accepted the revised name.

Go Georgie go

The White Album encompasses the entire gambit of popular music up until 1968 and even pioneered Heavy Metal with Helter Skelter. No #1 hits on either side of the Pond, that’s fine by me, it’s a musical opus that like everyone of their albums is the greatest of all time.

I love Revolution 9 vey much...

It’s a great album, but Revolution 9 is brutal. Too bad they didn’t replace it with something like “Hey Bulldog” and/or “Hey Jude”

There are three absolutely great double albums that should be double albums: The White Album - The Beatles Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John The Wall - Pink Floyd Not one single song should be removed from any of them. And, being an extreme fan of Elton John, I'm going to add his most musically masterful album (not his "best" album, but definitely his most musical album) to that list: Blue Moves - Elton John BTW. Here are Elton John's five best albums: 1) Tumbleweed Connection 2) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 3) Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy 4) Blue Moves 5) Madman Across The Water

Wonder if there’s any interviews where he praises something Paul did. Everything I’ve ever consumed of George’s is only ever praise of John and swipes at Paul. In Get Back it looked like Paul was just the easier whipping boy for him to talk back to and criticise whilst John was actually the most dismissive of his work

How would you cut it down. I just did an exercise of picking my faves from the 30 tracks and it's McCartney top heavy 8 to 6.

"There's a couple of things we could have done without on the album." - 'Piggies,' 'Long, Long, Long' and 'Savoy Truffle!'

"Gently Weeps" being the best by far.

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Fun fact: I knew a guy who drove The Fab 4 when they were recording this. I asked him the usual stuff, and he honestly said the following. Ahem....... 'The three lads were ok, but Lennon was an arsehole'. I know that saying bad things about JL normally means you are going to meet Satan, but that's what he told me. He also met The Stones. He said Keith had his feet on the table, and when he said 'Oi! get your feet off the table!', Keith shot out of his char, swept a sleeve over the table and said he was sorry. Make of all this what you will, music lovers. X

White album is awesome but has a few throw aways, no doubt. And it’s a bit haphazard. Still, better than anyone else

It's mildly amusing to hear George say that The White Album (a double album) was too big, too much for listeners to really hear and take in. This is the same man who in two years time would go on to release a triple album, All Things Must Pass, a great work for sure, among the best if not the best of the group's solo work, but I can't imagine the possibility of something being too much couldn't still apply here, especially because you might have reason to believe that people may not be as readily invested in solo work over Beatles material. I'm not necessarily saying he DID put too many songs on All Things Must Pass, some people rather enjoy it, but it is quite a lot to take in for sure. I just find it funny he could change his mind after talking about The White Album being too much, something which I wasn't aware of until this video was posted.

Revolution 9 should have been replaced by What's the New Mary Jane. Mary Jane is still weird but listenable. I'm sure a lot of people just skip Revolution 9.

That's my mate Ritchie York interviewing him (RIP)

what is done is done)

When was this recorded?

Like “Pepper” another masterpiece.R.I.P. G.Harrison, G. Martin,and John Lennon.

Imagine given the terrifying responsibility of cutting the White Album down to just 14 songs!

If I were a guitarist, I do not think I would invite a better guitarist to play on my song (While My Guitar gentle weeps) in front of my band mates. It would suggest that I am inferior. Lennon briefly suggested that Clapton replace Harrison after George temporary left the Beatles.

i read that Claudio died in a plane crash in the late 70's

There's an interview with George Martin in which he explains why the bad were so eager to release 30 songs instead of 1 single album: they wanted to fulfill their EMI contract so that they could negotiate a better one. Yes, there are songs that the album could have done without. I don't think anyone would lose any sleep over replacing "Wild Honey Pie", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", or "Revolution 9" with something else.

It was too pricey for me to buy

Back in the USSR best.

Why do people think Glass Onion was a good song?

“Revolution 9” was an 8 1/2 minute wank fest to impress a junkie groupie as George timidly acknowledges here, but I too am glad it’s on the album because it elevates the other weak songs on the album by comparison with it, and because it serves as a cautionary tale about how pretentiousness is more damaging to creativity than any drug imaginable. “Good Night” comes as such a palette cleansing relief after it, where it might have seemed mawkish otherwise. Lennon had many moments of great invention and depth of emotion on this album, especially with “Julia.” McCartney whipsaws between hard rock and deliberate corniness, as he will do, but it’s hard to deny the influence of songs like “Why Don’t We Do It In The Road?,” “Birthday,” and “Helter Skelter” on later hard rock and even heavy metal acts. George’s contributions were a little lackluster, to be honest, compared to what he did on “Abbey Road” and “All Things Must Pass,” with the exception of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” which is a guitar hero anthem. He was right that this is an album that has to grow on you, like “Exile on Main St.” was for the Stones. That seems to be the case with most double albums of the rock era. “Quadrophenia,” “Physical Graffiti,” and “The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway” are also pretty challenging on first listen, and “The Beatles” (93 mins) is longer than all of them, save The Lamb” (94 mins). Knock out “Revolution 9” and you hit the sweet spot for a double LP. Oh, and “Honey Pie.” “Honey Pie” sounds like McCartney trying to impress a 70-year-old groupie.

George Martin and George Harrison were right. It's too big, and there's too much outright solo stuff and filler on there.

This is clearly sped up

George is right, the White album was way too big. Should have just been two sides. George tries to put a shine on a turd regarding revolution9.

I can't understand how George considered that nasty drunk a friend, especially after his _friend_ stole his wife away.

Love the Beatles, but the White Album as a whole was highly overrated with too many weak or even shit songs. I hardly ever play it.

REV 9 is garbage sound