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Nice one! .... here is John blown up a bit (no pun intended). John was a notoriously poor athlete and (as can be seen in the films) a slightly spazzy runner, so I doubt he was a great skateboarder.

This ones funny, with coke.

Lennon played slide with a lighter on 'For you Blue'.

My Favorite Beatle:

Tom Petty with some Beatles

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For a long time, the knock on the White Album is that it included too much 2nd rate stuff and should have been made into one killer album.
I dont agree.... I think its wonderful as it is.....

But if one HAD to create a single 14-track album from that material, what would it look like? And what order would the songs be?
Its hard to eliminate some of the songs... but that is what makes the exercise challenging.
Here's my try.....

SIDE 1
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Back in the USSR (2:43)
Glass Onion (2:17)
While My Gui­tar Gen­tly Weeps (4:45)
Hap­pi­ness is a Warm Gun (2:44)
Cry Baby Cry (3:11)
Rev­o­lu­tion 1 (4:16)
I Will (1:47)

SIDE 2
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Hel­ter Skel­ter (4:30)
Birth­day (2:43)
Everybody’s Got Some­thing to Hide Except for Me and My Mon­key (2:55)
Sexy Sadie (3:15)
Yer Blues (4:01)
Julia (2:45)
Long Long Long (3:04)


----taken---out------------------------
Dear Pru­dence (3:57)
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (3:09)
Wild Honey Pie (1:02)
Martha My Dear (2:29)
Pig­gies (2:05)
Don’t Pass Me By (3:42)
Why Don’t We Do It in the Road? (1:41)
Mother Nature’s Son (2:48)
Rev­o­lu­tion 9 (8:13)
Honey Pie (2:41)
I’m So Tired (2:03)
The Con­tin­u­ing Story of Bun­ga­low Bill (3:05)
Rocky Rac­coon (3:41)
Black­bird (2:18)
Savoy Truf­fle (2:55)
Good Night (3:12)

SIDE 1
---------
Back in the USSR (2:43)
Glass Onion (2:17)
I’m So Tired (2:03)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (4:45)
Happiness is a Warm Gun (2:44)
Cry Baby Cry (3:11)
Revolution 1 (4:16)


SIDE 2
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Yer Blues (4:01)
Dear Prudence (3:57)
Helter Skelter (4:30)
Savoy Truffle (2:55)
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey (2:55)
Sexy Sadie (3:15)
Julia (2:45)

Wolfgang

(Sigh) -- why deprive yourselves of all the other tracks on the White Album? With modern digital technology, just program yourselves a play list. Yes, even I have been known to skip "Revolution #9," but now that I've said "Hello" to Yoko Ono & Sean in London this summer at the hotel where my folks were staying (My wife, son & I were in a different hotel), I'm going to have to go back and give it another listen, and maybe even drag out my copy of the Wedding album and listen to the entire side of "John...Yoko..." again.

Mine!.....I do believe without question I'd have loved to see Hey Jude and Revolution (single version) on this album, which would've made it stellar! (for which I would eliminate Rocky Raccoon, Revolution 1, and Julia (makes up for length of Hey Jude).

SIDE 1
---------
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (3:09)
Rev­o­lu­tion 1 (4:16)
Black­bird (2:18)
Glass Onion (2:17)
Hap­pi­ness is a Warm Gun (2:44)
I Will (1:47)
While My Gui­tar Gen­tly Weeps (4:45)


SIDE 2
----------
Birth­day (2:43)
Sexy Sadie (3:15)
Savoy Truf­fle (2:55)
Julia (2:45)
Rocky Rac­coon (3:41)
Dear Pru­dence (3:57)
Back in the USSR (2:43)

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If enough respond to this question,....the definitive 'White Album' according to RICK RESOURCE MEMBERS can be tallied!

I do believe without question I'd have loved to see Hey Jude and Revolution (single version) on this album, which would've made it stellar!

Wow... you got THAT right!
(I would have put Revolution on side 1 and the put Revolution 1 on side 2 for balance)

Not sure if this one has been posted here.

"Looking back at the birth of The Beatles" (Source Auntie Beeb):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19790885

Beatles side-theme...