original i see you brought a copy of i don t think some show and tell this is indeed the real mccoy very kindly lent to us by a member of colleague from the culture department it s no longer white exactly actually the white looks better on the video wall here behind us of course a little bit yellowed with age but it is a half a century old and you can see the title here that moms feel a bit in boston with the serial number right there that makes this album so special well you know it s a combination of things to me first of all it was a double album as you can see here there s no records in that which was new for the beatles thirty tracks a lot of music on there and this completely white cover the concept was of course to strip things down to their very bare essentials after the psychedelic colorful madness of their last album sergeant pepper s. so they were also coming just coming off a meditation retreat in india and you know you mentioned the mixed reactions some people branded this