The 21,000,000-selling Beatles album Yoko Ono and John Lennon agreed was their best
Yoko Ono said that The Beatles’ 1968 album, The White Album, was her favourite, preferring it to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. John Lennon shared that view, calling the record the band’s best and saying he thought its music was stronger than Pepper’s.
The White Album topped charts around the world and is estimated to have sold 21 million copies. Ono revealed her preference in a 2016 interview, adding that she also loved Pepper. The article places their shared choice in the context of Lennon and Ono’s artistic connection and notes that The Beatles’ break-up followed years of intense work and changing creative interests.
- Ono and Lennon both favoured The White Album.
- The 1968 double album sold an estimated 21 million copies.
- Ono said she preferred it to Sgt. Pepper.
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The Beatles were a British band whose music changed greatly over their career. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released in 1967, is known for its elaborate sound and studio experiments.
The White Album came out in 1968 as a double album, with songs in many different styles. John Lennon was one of the band’s four members; Yoko Ono was an artist and musician who became his partner and collaborator.
The band’s members increasingly pursued different musical interests in the years before they split up. Their contrasting albums offer a way to understand the range of music they made during that period.