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WD_332/ 2007
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings 4 | | Medium: | oilstick on paper | | Size (inches): | 25.6 x 17.7 | | Size (mm): | 650 x 450 | | Catalog #: | WD_0332 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
Q: Who is standing next to John on the front cover of The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?
A: Oscar Wilde.
The Sgt. Pepper's Album -
Although most of the next two weeks would be taken up by recording the two songs for their next single, Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane, recording for Sgt. Pepper's started on December 8, 1966 with take one of When I'm Sixty-Four. The last track recorded was violins and cellos for Within You Without You on April 3, 1967, and mixing was completed April 20. Almost as an afterthought, the sounds for the Sgt. Pepper's ending groove were recorded the next day.
The original working title of A Day In The Life was "In The Life Of..." A rare session outside of Abbey Road occurred during the time of the Sgt. Pepper sessions at Regent Sound Studio in London for part of Fixing A Hole on February 9, 1967. Also during this period, the long-lost avante-garde Beatles recording called Carnival of Light was recorded on January 5, 1967.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was officially released in both mono and stereo on June 1, 1967, although it was rush released in the UK on May 26. It was actually played on the radio in Britain on the BBC show Where It's At, the week before on May 20, except for A Day In The Life, which had been banned by the BBC the day earlier, on the grounds that it could encourage a permissive attitude towards drugs.
Album Variations:
Because of the way 8-Tracks cartridges worked, they had to contain 4 segments of similar length. When they were released on 8-Tracks, most LPs had to have their song order scrambled so that the songs fit properly on four programs.
However, when Capitol made the 8-Track of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, not only did they change the track order, but they actually edited a song to be longer so that it would fill up one program.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Capitol 8XT-2653
Program 1
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A Little Help From My Friends (sic)
Fixing A Hole
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite
Program 2
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
She's Leaving Home
Program 3
Within You Without You
A Day In The Life
Program 4
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Good Morning Good Morning
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
On the Capitol Sgt. Pepper's 8-Track, about ten seconds of the ending of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) was edited back onto the end of the track. The Capitol 8-Track is the only place this strange edited version appears.
Historical data from the books The Beatles Recording Sessions and The Complete Beatles Chronicles, both by Mark Lewisohn. - This page last updated July 20, 2002.
-www.beatlesagain.com/btsgtppr.html
List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band -
The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely-recognized album cover which depicts several dozen celebrities and other images.
This album cover was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake. They won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1968 for their work on this cover.
The celebrities and items featured on the front cover are (by row, left to right):
Top row:
* Sri Yukteswar Giri (guru)
* Aleister Crowley (occultist)
* Mae West (actress)
* Lenny Bruce (comedian)
* Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
* W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
* Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist)
* Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
* Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
* Richard Merkin (artist)
* The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
* Leo Gorcey (actor) (removed)
* Huntz Hall (actor)
* Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
* Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)
Second row:
* Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
* Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)
* Aldous Huxley (writer)
* Dylan Thomas (poet)
* Terry Southern (writer)
* Dion (singer)
* Tony Curtis (actor)
* Wallace Berman (artist)
* Tommy Handley (comic)
* Marilyn Monroe (actress/singer)
* William S. Burroughs (writer)
* Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru)
* Stan Laurel (comedian/actor)
* Richard Lindner (artist)
* Oliver Hardy (comedian/actor)
* Karl Marx (political philosopher)
* H.G. Wells (writer)
* Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru)
* Sigmund Freud (psychologist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
Third row:
* Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
* Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy)
* Max Miller (comedian)
* The Petty Girl (by Artist George Petty)
* Marlon Brando (actor)
* Tom Mix (actor)
* Oscar Wilde (writer)
* Tyrone Power (actor)
* Larry Bell (artist)
* Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
* Johnny Weissmuller (swimmer/actor)
* Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between the hand above Paul McCartney's head, and the next head to the right
* James Dean (actor) - right above the wax Mccartney's head
* Issy Bonn (comedian) - his hand is above McCartney's head
* George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
* H.C. Westermann (sculptor)
* Albert Stubbins (soccer Player)
* Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
* Lewis Carroll (writer)
* T.E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia")
Front row:
* Wax model - Sonny Liston (boxer)
* The Petty Girl (by George Petty)
* Wax model - George Harrison
* Wax model- John Lennon
* Shirley Temple (actress and diplomat)
* Wax model - Ringo Starr
* Wax model - Paul McCartney
* Albert Einstein (physicist)
* John Lennon
* Ringo Starr
* Paul McCartney
* George Harrison
* Bobby Breen (singer)
* Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
* Gandhi (Indian Leader) (removed)
* Tin Tan (Mexican Actor) (Changed )
* Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalos
* Diana Dors (actress)
Other objects within the group include:
* Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
* Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth
* A Mexican candlestick
* A television set
* A stone figure of a girl
* Another stone figure
* A statue brought over from John Lennon's house
* A trophy
* A doll of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
* A doll wearing a sweater giving homage to The Rolling Stones
* A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
* A hookah (water pipe)
* A velvet snake
* Fukusuke, Japanese china figure
* A stone figure of Snow White
* A garden gnome
* A tuba
People who were originally intended for the front cover but were ultimately excluded:
* Jesus Christ (removed because the LP would be released a few months after John Lennon's Jesus statement)
* Mahatma Gandhi (removed because EMI felt that his presence would offend the Indian market)
* Leo Gorcey (removed because he requested a fee for the use of his likeness)
* Elvis Presley (singer)[citation needed]
* Adolf Hitler (removed at the insistence of Parlophone Records)
* Germán Valdés "Tin Tan" (removed because he requested Ringo change him for a Mexican Tree)[citation needed]
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