Album (January)

Album is Latin for white. No-one knows who called it The White Album. My turntable copy crackles and undulates in the January of Planet Nine, a great accidental classical pun of modern music. Album was a white board on which Romans placed public notices. Only cheeky chaps of Albion jested at the USSR or said of revolution, that won’t help make it with anyone anyhow. The White Album remains a chronicle of 1968. The Fabs almost called it A Doll’s House, but it’s an album in the very Victorian sense, a collection of varied stuff stuck onto white white spaces.

Fab

                 adolescent adulation

        brilliant b-sides

cavern crescendos

                          drug dreams

        electric etudes

                     fab four

     george's gifts

hamburg hell

                   indian instrumentals

     jealous john

                       king kite

lysergic london

                       mister moonlight

       nowhere now

           ob-la-di ob-la-da

     paul's pathos

                       queen's question

     ringo's revolutions

stadium screaming

                 television twist

    unrehearsed universe

                              varied volumes

           worried walrus

   deluxe tax

                   yoko yeah

  z-cars zoetrope