Although he was later welcomed back when he realised the album would go ahead without him, warning bells must have been ringing and it was perhaps a good thing that the band members were working individually so often. The under-appreciated Ringo was growing tired of his role and the splintering into sections of the band caused him to walk out for a week, announcing that he was no longer a Beatle. The band were creating their own visions, ducking into vacant studios to knock out tracks without the others’ approval. A good deal of the songs on The White Album do not feature all four band members and several feature only the specific songwriter alone in the studio.
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This canvas would be filled with the enormous 30 song double album, but although its title referred to a single entity, a band, the sound was that of four individuals pulling in different directions. The Beatles is often referred to as a series of solo projects and not without good reason. Gone were the bright colours, the bizarre animals, the idyllic flowerbeds and elaborate costumes. The Beatles was represented by a blank canvas, a fresh start. This, however, nicely draws attention to the simplicity of the cover art. The simple title is so loaded with meaning that it is almost a shame that The Beatles has become more widely referred to as The White Album. For the first time since Revolver, this was The Beatles. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, neither was it a group of psychedelic wizards on an LSD fuelled road trip. The simple, eponymous title indicates a rebirth for the band, finally dropping the masks they had been wearing (literally, in the case of Magical Mystery Tour) to reveal themselves candidly to the public. The Beatles continued to strip back their sound, leading to the creation of the raw, sprawling masterpiece, The Beatles. The rocking “Lady Madonna” and the indulgently lengthy but infinitely sing-a-long-able “Hey Jude” singles dropped all the pomposity and got back down to the basics of being in a rock ’n’ roll band. Things were already starting to turn around. However, the band harnessed these tensions and channelled their anger, frustration and disillusionment into the music. Tensions were building between the band and the lukewarm reception the Magical Mystery Tour EP and its accompanying film received did not help. The trend continued with the barrel scraping “Hello Goodbye” single and while Lennon’s “All You Need is Love” single was a marked improvement, it still continued to rely on the big band sound and over-simplified lyrics that had been dragging down the quality of the Beatles’ output for some time. The result was a set of superficial, psychedelic disasters. The Magical Mystery Tour EP which followed again leant heavily on a concept and the music was predictably affected. Pepper album felt bloated in comparison to its predecessor and for the most part struggled to match its astonishingly high quality. Following the masterpiece Revolver, the Beatles began to work on ambitious, concept based projects.
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