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