The Beatles (White Album)

Front Cover

The Stark White
In a direct contrast to the Magical Mystery Tour LP the groups next album featured a bare, white cover with the only features on the front cover being the name of the group embossed and an individual number. You have to wonder why it's white, especially since the dead are buried in white shrouds.

He Be Ice?
If you hold a mirror up to the phrase 'The BEATLES' on the front cover so that the bottom half is being mirrored, it gives the message 'He BE ICE' alongside the number 3. Who exactly is 'like ice'? Paul McCartney? Also, just like in the Magical Mystery Tour booklet, the back cover of Abbey Road and other examples, we're given the number 3. Why are we being told numerous times about '3' or '3 Beatles'?

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The Back Cover

No individual clues have been found yet on the back cover.

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The Gatefold

The Sombre Nature
The inner gatefold gives a very sombre atmosphere and does not emit the happiness found on earlier covers. It's also in the same kind of layout as an obituary or message of mourning. But for whom?

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The Portrait

The Scar 4 inidividual photos of the band members also came with the original copies of the LP. This is Pauls and gives us our first really detailed picture of Paul after 1966. If you look closely you can see a scar on his upper lip which was allegedly caused by the plastic surgery William went through to turn him completely into a McCartney double.

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The Poster

The Passport Photo At the bottom left of the poster there's a photo of somebody who looks an awful lot like Paul. Could this have been the application photo that William Campbell used for his McCartney look-alike competition entry form?

The Arms At the bottom right there is a photo of Paul dancing and what appears to be two dishevelled looking arms reaching out around his waist. It's been said that this is merely a fold in the negative, but is that was the case then why does the right arm look to be going behind McCartney? Is this the Grim Reaper reaching out to claim his next victim?

The Joke? Just to the right of the center of the poster we're shown this weird photo of a dead looking Paul in drivers cap and scarf. Could this have been a photo taken of William joking around about Paul being dead?

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