John Earls
There’s a memorable moment in the Anthology TV series where the surviving Beatles and George Martin are asked if The White Album would have been better as a single record. Ringo Starr suggests it should have come out as two separate albums – “The White Album and The Whiter Album”; George Harrison admits some songs should have been “elbowed off” or saved for B-sides; Martin in particular sternly insists it should have been “condensed into a very, very good single album”.