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** Anime/DigimonAdventure referenced the main riff of ''Birthday'' as the basis for the song [[https://youtu.be/KPLElOUW5m8?si=2I2Q74TRHoMXYk9f Love Serenade ~ Etemon no Theme.]]
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* CutSong: The album, in all its infamously overlong glory, lost enough songs to more or less comprise another whole LP's worth of material -- "Not Guilty", "Junk", "What's The New Mary Jane", "Circles", "Child Of Nature" (a forerunner of Lennon's "Jealous Guy"), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "Sour Milk Sea" (which many fans agree would've made for a killer single), "Step Inside Love", and others.

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* CutSong: The album, in all its infamously overlong glory, lost enough songs to more or less comprise another whole LP's worth of material -- "Not Guilty", "Junk", "What's The New Mary Jane", "Circles", "Child Of Nature" (a forerunner (Lennon's initial version of Lennon's what would eventually become [[Music/{{Imagine}} "Jealous Guy"), Guy"]]), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "Polythene Pam", "Sour Milk Sea" (which many fans agree would've made for a killer single), "Step Inside Love", and others.
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* {{Feelies}}: The album is packaged with four photos of the individual Beatles and a poster that includes lyrics, credits and a collage of more photos.

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* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" came out of George's desire to test the I Ching's contention that there are no coincidences and everything in the world is connected, by writing a song about a randomly selected phrase from a random book. As he says, he opened a book without thinking, saw the phrase "gently weeps", put the book down and started writing.

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"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" came out of George's desire to test the I Ching's contention that there are no coincidences and everything in the world is connected, by writing a song about a randomly selected phrase from a random book. As he says, he opened a book without thinking, saw the phrase "gently weeps", put the book down and started writing.writing.
** "Birthday" was completely concocted from scratch during its recording session, with John and Paul working up the EpicRiff and building the song from there. In the middle of the session, they took a break to watch a TV broadcast of ''Film/TheGirlCantHelpIt'' at Paul's flat (which was a short walk from Abbey Road), which further tilted the song into a RevisitingTheRoots exercise.
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* TheWalrusWasPaul: "Glass Onion" is the {{Trope Namer|s}}, using the line "and here's another clue for you all: the walrus was Paul" to allude to the fact that the band's earlier song [[Music/MagicalMysteryTour "I Am the Walrus"]] is not supposed to be a deep, philosophical song and was just nonsense for the sake of it.
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** Putting the game disc for ''VideoGame/SewerShark'' in a CD player brings up a secret audio track in which a Digital Pictures employee receives a phone call consisting of backmasked audio. Playing said audio in reverse reveals a voice chanting "number nine," nodding to [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Revolution 9"]]; it's even uttered in the same cadence to boot.

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** What if Music/TheBeatles had listened to George Martin and agreed to cut down the album?

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** What if Music/TheBeatles had listened to George Martin and agreed attempted to persuade the band to cut the album down the album?to one disc. The band, however, persisted and had it released as a double LP.



** What if "Hey Jude" or the electric "Revolution" hadn't been chosen for the single and remained on the album?
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** Shaggy 2 Dope of the Music/InsaneClownPosse has an outro track on a solo album of his that is a parody of "Revolution 9".
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** ''Film/GlassOnion'' takes its name from a song on this album; partway through the film, Miles plays a snippet of another cut, "Blackbird", on the guitar that Music/PaulMcCartney used to write it.

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** ''Film/GlassOnion'' takes its name from a song on this album; partway the song also plays during the credits. Partway through the film, Miles plays a snippet of another cut, "Blackbird", on the guitar that Music/PaulMcCartney used to write it.
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** ''Film/GlassOnion'' takes its name from a song on this album; partway through the film, Miles plays a snippet of another cut, "Blackbird", on the guitar that Music/PaulMcCartney used to write it.
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** A few instances of StudioChatter are left between songs (most notably, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" ends with John saying "Hey, up!" and "Helter Skelter" has Ringo shouting "I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!")

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** A few instances of StudioChatter are left between songs (most notably, "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" ends with John saying "Hey, up!" (or maybe "ale!") and "Helter Skelter" has Ringo shouting "I GOT BLISTERS ON MY FINGERS!")
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** Music/TenCC's "Feel the Benefit" features a prominent guitar riff that's clearly based on the "Dear Prudence" EpicRiff.
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** "Back in the USSR" was originally written as "I'm Backing the UK" as a nod to the "I'm Backing Britain" campaign, which began just before the band left for India. It then morphed into "I'm Backing the USSR" before receiving its final title as a play on Music/ChuckBerry's "Back in the USA".
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** Music/JohnLennon was quite disparaging of some of his contributions to this album. He was particularly harsh to "Cry Baby Cry".

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** Music/JohnLennon was quite disparaging of some of his contributions to this album. He was particularly harsh to "Cry Baby Cry".Cry"; in one interview, he even claimed to have not written it.
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* FanNickname: The title "The White Album". Also began the informal convention of nicknaming a band's SelfTitledAlbum after the main color of its cover art.
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** No singles were taken from it when it was first released. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was belatedly released by Capitol in the US in 1976 but only got to #49 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Also in 1976, "Back In The USSR" was a UK single to promote the "Rock & Roll Music" compilation, reaching #19.

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** No singles were taken from it when it was first released. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was belatedly released by Capitol in the US in 1976 but only got to #49 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Also in 1976, "Back In The USSR" was a UK single to promote the "Rock & ''Rock 'n' Roll Music" Music'' compilation, reaching #19.[[note]]In America, Capitol went with "[[Music/RevolverBeatlesAlbum Got to Get You Into My Life]]" as the single from ''Rock 'n' Roll Music'', and it reached #7.[[/note]]
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** The piano part in Music/{{Radiohead}}'s [[Music/OKComputer "Karma Police"]] was written as an homage to that of "Sexy Sadie".
** The composition of Music/{{XTC}}'s [[Music/{{Skylarking}} "Dear God"]] was partly inspired by "Rocky Raccoon".
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** Comicbook/RocketRaccoon [[TitledAfterTheSong is named after]] "Rocky Raccoon", and [[https://cdn.fansided.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/308/files/2014/07/hulk-271-splash-page-closeup.jpg the title of his first story]] is downright a sci-fi take on the song's opening line.
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*** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'' references this album in two distinct ways, both related to La Squadra di Esecuzione member, Ghiaccio. His [[FightingSpirit Stand]] is called White Album, which allows him to [[PoweredArmor skate across any surface as if it were a patch of ice]], and one of its secondary abilities is called White Album Gently Weeps, which allows him to cool the air around him to -215°C, causing everything around him to [[EvilIsDeathlyCold flash freeze]].

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*** ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureVentoAureo Vento Aureo]]'' ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'' references this album in two distinct ways, both related to La Squadra di Esecuzione member, Ghiaccio. His [[FightingSpirit Stand]] is called White Album, which allows him to [[PoweredArmor skate across any surface as if it were a patch of ice]], and one of its secondary abilities is called White Album Gently Weeps, which allows him to cool the air around him to -215°C, causing everything around him to [[EvilIsDeathlyCold flash freeze]].

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