The Beatles were More Jewish than you Think

after Rutherford Chang

track 1

“I listen to the White Album every day.

  I ‘collect’ only White

Albums.

I bought my first White Album at a garage sale in Palo Alto for $1 when I was 15 years old.

                               My exhibition is set up like a record store with the albums arranged in bins by serial number, and visitors are invited to browse and listen to the records.

                                       Except, rather than sell the albums, I am buying more.

I’m most interested in the albums as objects, and observing

     how they have

aged.

I often find the “poorer” condition albums more interesting.

      Every copy

tells a story, an imagined history

    based on the condition of the

album.

At the end of the exhibition I will press a new double-LP made from all the recordings layered upon each other.

                                        It will be like playing a few hundred

copies

of the White Album

                                 at once.”

track 12

While recording “Revolution,” John kept getting hung up on a particular lyric. After the line “but when you talk about destruction,” he could not decide whether he wanted to sing

“don’t you know that you can count me out,”

or

“don’t you know that you can count me in.”

Paul later said, “I don’t think he was sure which way he felt about it at the time.” On the White Album version of the song, John sings both.