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In Tell Me Why, Tim Riley noted George Martin's reluctance to release the White Album as a double album but he wondered which songs would have been left off. He speculated that the choices would have been "'Wild Honey Pie' certainly, 'Rocky Raccoon' perhaps; 'Long, Long, Long' is the weakest George track, but 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', 'Piggies', and 'Savoy Truffle' are essentials. There is no sequence that would satisfy the strictures of the forty-minute record without discarding not a few but many great tracks."
[1] In The Beatles as Musicians, Walter Everett speculated that George Martin would have preferred the following single-disc LP:
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In the review of the 30th Anniversary CD release of the White Album for Mojo magazine, Charles Shaar Murray stated, "Most people agree with George Martin that would have made a killer single album—it's just that no-one agrees with anybody else about what should be on it." [3] Murray's edit of the White Album was:
After providing his single-LP version of the White Album, Murray asked, "What's yours?" On the following page is a form where you can put together your version of an alternative single-disc White Album. Have fun filling it out. Be sure to submit your selections because I'm looking forward to seeing what other people think. By the way, my single-LP White Album is as follows:
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| Notes | ||
| 1. | Tim Riley, Tell Me Why (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), p. 260. | |
| 2. | Walter Everett, The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver through the Anthology (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), p. 343. | |
| 3. | Charles Shaar Murray, "Mont Blanc: Big, Beautiful, Tricky to Assimilate and White," Mojo 62 (January, 1999), p. 97. | |
What if the Beatles had followed George Martin's advice? |
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