American singer, songwriter and pianist shows little appreciation for a specific album of Liverpool boys: ‘I’m not a fan’
Among the discs of the “adult” phase of Beatlesafter 1965, one of them usually does not receive the same acclamation of the others. At least on the part of the American singer, composer and pianist Billy Joelone of the detractors of this album in question.
This is the work that bears only the name of the band, also known as White album (White albumin Portuguese), launched in 1968. Because it is a double LP, with 30 tracks, it tends to be accused of containing several fillers – That is, those songs inserted only to “fill sausage” in the repertoire.
In a way, this is exactly the criticism of Billy Joel to White album. In a recent interview with the podcast Club Random (via NME), the musician stated:
“I’m not a fan of White albumbut some people love him. “
Then he explained his point of view:
“I hear like a collection of malfeasible songs that they didn’t finish composing because they were soothed or didn’t care anymore. I think they had only fragments and put them on the album.”
Internal conflicts in the Beatles
In fact, the composition and recording of the White album It coincides with a period when each of the band’s members was becoming protagonist of their own art. More and more they would rather create and play alone.
Even the partnership between John Lennon and Paul McCartney began to crumble. In the period, each searched for different paths in the studio.
There were friction often between the four. Lennon even described the Kenneth Wommackauthor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beatles (2009), that “the separation of the Beatles can be heard in that album”. At a given moment of the recordings, the drummer Ringo Starr He came out of the group, returning days later.
Not everything is perfection in the Beatles
Billy Joel tends to agree with John Lennon’s phrase and concludes his trial on White album saying:
“Sometimes they were more prolific and sometimes not, and I hear it in some of these songs.”
Despite Joel’s negative assessment, the White album of the Beatles yielded classics like “Helter Skelter”, “Blackbird”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-da”.
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Source: Rollingstone
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