White Album

The Beatles

they didn’t appear on the cover because they were breaking apart.

But that tension fueled a creative high point: the childlike yearning of John Lennon’s “Julia”; Paul McCartney’s playful inversion of Chuck Berry’s American values, “Back in the U.S.S.R.”; George Harrison’s longing on “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”; and Ringo Starr’s “Don’t Pass Me By,” his first original on a Beatles album.