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I suspect the lingering taste of the degradation the Beatles suffered at the hands of promoters that produced the stupid early movies probably was the spur that eventually led to the creation of the White album. That and the financial success from the paying mobs of teenyboppers which made it possible to do something different and not worry about going broke by alienating their early audience.
I did not have good words together to say just about what you described. If anything, the White Album, for me, is a VERY PERSONAL album about all 4 of them, and I like the fact that the original LP had clean photographs of them LP sized. I like to think that it told you that way it was ... and sometimes, we just didn't get it and thought something else.
I'm specially fond of "Revolution #9" because it is so simple and obvious, that we can not even think of duplicating it. Tell Bapu to shush, get his portable recorder, and star walking out of the studio, close the door and record everything in front of him for the next 10 minutes. If he doesn't have the next CHB song after that he ain't no musician! He Am a goon! Strummy will probably be in the background, saying something like ... yeah Brazil ... you can't play with the big dogs!