Release Date: 9/02/1978
Recording Date: 11/1968
Tracks: 30
Length: 00:33:43 Hrs
Label: Capitol
Type: LP,CD,CS
- Genre/Styles
- Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter, Hard Rock, Early Pop/Rock, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock, Baroque Pop, Album Rock, British Psychedelia, AM Pop, Rock & Roll, Pop, Psychedelic, Folk-Rock, Pop/Rock, British Psychedelia
Album Tracks (30)
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What the Critics Say
Each song on the sprawling double album The Beatles is an entity to itself, as the band touches on anything and everything it can. This makes for a frustratingly scattershot record or a singularly gripping musical experience, depending on your view, but what makes the so-called White Album interesting is its mess. Never before had a rock record been so self-reflective, or so ironic; the Beach Boys send-up "Back in the U.S.S.R." and the British blooze parody "Yer Blues" are delivered straight-faced, so it's never clear if these are affectionate tributes or wicked satires. Lennon turns in two of his best ballads with "Dear Prudence" and "Julia"; scours the Abbey Road vaults for the musique concrète collage "Revolution 9"; pours on the schmaltz for Ringo's closing number, "Good Night"; celebrates the Beatles cult with "Glass Onion"; and, with "Cry Baby Cry," rivals Syd Barrett. McCartney doesn't reach quite as far, yet his songs are stunning -- the music hall romp "Honey Pie," the mock country of "Rocky Raccoon," the ska-inflected "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da," and the proto-metal roar of "Helter Skelter." Clearly, the Beatles' two main songwriting forces were no longer on the same page, but neither were George and Ringo. Harrison still had just two songs per LP, but it's clear from "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," the canned soul of "Savoy Truffle," the haunting "Long, Long, Long," and even the silly "Piggies" that he had developed into a songwriter who deserved wider exposure. And Ringo turns in a delight with his first original, the lumbering country-carnival stomp "Don't Pass Me By." None of it sounds like it was meant to share album space together, but somehow The Beatles creates its own style and sound through its mess. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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2/8/2009 9:07 PM
Richard Cory is a song by Paul McCartnety and Wings. It was sung by Denny Laine. I don't recall the album it was on but it was definately Wings that did the song.
2/8/2009 9:05 PM
Rihard Cory is a song by Paul McCartney and Wings. I don't recall which album it came out on. But it is an earlier album.
1/15/2009 12:02 PM
Does anyone know the story of ' Richard Cory ' in song? I think the Beatles did this one, its about the guy that went home and put a bullet in his head, even though the appearance was that he had it going on. I'm trying to find it, help if you can!
1/15/2009 11:56 AM
Hey Beatles fans, is there not a song about 'Richard Cory '? He was the guy that owned a factory I think and for all intents and purposes, looked as if he had it all , BUT, he went home and put a bullet in his head. Anyone know the name of the song and what album it is on? HELP! (:

















3/25/2009 2:27 PM
I don't know what Richard Cory has to do with the White Album, but in any even, Richard Cory is a Paul Simon composition and was recorded by Simon & Garfunkle on one of their earlier albums.