Saturday, August 27, 2016

The Beatles White Album vs. Black Album

Here's a cool poster from The Beatles' "Black Album" that has emerged from the underground in recent years.  The "Black Album" was a 1981 bootleg (not to be confused with the more recent mixtape) packaged as a mirror of the 1968 White Album (aka "The Beatles").  Even though the boot featured outtakes from the 1969 "Get Back"/"Let it Be" sessions, it was still great stuff, and the whole package set a new standard for illicit disks at the time.  Just like the original White Album, the Black Album included a large poster collage.  Somehow, one of the original bootleggers held on to a stash of those, and they've now turned up online for sale.  (More likely, someone has made an excellent facsimile of the original poster).  The Black poster is pictured above, and the White is below.



On the back of the White Album poster were the lyrics to the entire album; on the back of the Black album poster is something else... the entire contents of the book given away with original British (and other on-US countries) boxed-set copies of "Let It Be" in 1970.  Pretty amazing.  Finally, below we have a fan-made poster that pays homage to the White Album poster (source unknown).

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