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Radio 6 Music,4 mins

Celebrating 50 years of The White Album

Mary Anne Hobbs

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The White Album has been described as a 鈥榤asterpiece鈥� rooted in their 鈥榳ildest, strangest, most experimental musical phase鈥� 鈥� they wrote the bulk of the record while meditating in India. The album has 4 sides and featured a mammoth 30 tracks! Part of the complex of the album comes down to all the drama that went into it at Abbey Roads 鈥� the arguments, the bad vibes, the stuff of legends鈥� One person that was there was the record's producer, Chris Thomas, and hear from him as he reflects on the time he spent in the studio making the record, as he got to know The Beatles and their entourage!

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