Bursting with some of the most audacious - and at times challenging - songs the Beatles ever recorded, the eponymous 1968 double-album (aka, the White Album) demonstrated just how far John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr had expanded the boundaries of contemporary pop.
It was also the album which most markedly revealed the now clearly distinct individuals the Beatles had become. Essentially creating music for the album as four (arguably three… with a floating Ringo - sorry Ringo) solo artists, the group still needed each other as vital competitors, casting their new outpourings into a contentious marketplace of potential Beatle songs.
