The Beatles (album) stereo only. In the UK, the following album, "Yellow Submarine", was the last to be shipped in mono. The mono version of "The Beatles" was made available worldwide on 9 September 2009, as part of "The Beatles in Mono" CD boxed set. A reissue of the original mono LP was released worldwide in September 2014. The album's sleeve was designed by pop artist Richard Hamilton, in collaboration with McCartney. Hamilton's design was in stark contrast to Peter Blake's vivid cover art for "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", and consisted of a plain white sleeve. The band's name, in Helvetica,
The Beatles (album) "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making". Richard Goldstein of "The New York Times" considered the double album to be "a major success" and "far more imaginative" than "Sgt. Pepper" or "Magical Mystery Tour", due to the band's improved songwriting and their relying less on the studio tricks of those earlier works. In "The Sunday Times", Derek Jewell hailed it as "the best thing in pop since "Sgt. Pepper"" and concluded: "Musically, there is beauty, horror, surprise, chaos, order. And that is the world; and that