Like the original vinyl pressings, these CD copies also featured individually stamped numbers on the album's front cover (in this case on the cover of the booklet for the first disc). During the last week of May 1968, The Beatles gathered at George’s house in Esher, Surrey, where they recorded acoustic demos for 27 songs. While my memories of earlier pressings remain strong and favorable, this remixed and remastered version stands as a welcome and pleasing alternative. Writing for MusicHound in 1999, Guitar World editor Christopher Scapelliti described the album as "self-indulgent and at times unlistenable" but identified "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" and "Helter Skelter" as "fascinating standouts" that made it a worthwhile purchase.

Sullivan's The Beatles with Lacan: Rock 'n' Roll as Requiem for the Modern Age (1995), Ed Whitley's "The Postmodern White Album" (2000), David Quantick's Revolution: The Making of the Beatles' White Album (2002), Devin McKinney's Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History (2003), and Jeffrey Roessner's "We All Want to Change the World: Postmodern Politics and the Beatles' White Album" (2006).The group ended the chosen take with a six-minute improvisation that had further overdubs added, before being cut to the length heard on the album. The track became widely bootlegged in the Soviet Union, where the Beatles' music was banned, and became an underground hit.

In my view, this "White Album" release is absolutely superb, and far superior to the Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary box set (sorry folks ! in India after he saw two monkeys copulating in the street and wondered why humans were too civilised to do the same. Miles Showell cut this 50 thanniversary two-LP set of the original album at half speed using the digital master from Giles Martin’s new mix of the record. Giles Martin, son of George Martin and supervisor of the 2018 50th Anniversary remix, stated that, contrary to the prevailing view of The Beatles, he does not believe it was recorded by a band about to implode.The Lennon composition " What's the New Mary Jane" was demoed at Kinfauns [156] and recorded formally (by Lennon, Harrison and Ono) during the 1968 album sessions.