John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney all chose what famous people would appear photographed with them on The Beatles “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover. There were a few other famous people that were supposed to be included in the photo but for different reasons were either never made, obscured or airbrushed out of the final album cover
In 1980, during the recording of the Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album “Hard Promises”, Petty was looking forward to meeting John Lennon, who was scheduled to be in the same studio at the same time as him. The meeting never happened and of course Lennon was murdered on December 8, 1980.
On March 25, 1966, The Beatles took the photos that would become their most controversial photos ever taken. The infamous “Butcher Photo Session” would later provide the short-lived album cover for The Beatles US release of “Yesterday And Today” before they were destroyed and or pasted over.
We need your vote!!! Out of the group of people that are sometimes referred to as “The Fifth Beatle” these four nominees Pete Best, George Martin, Billy Preston and Stuart Sutcliffe have the most Beatles credentials. Here’s the rundown…
“Get Back” might be the only song by The Beatles that has studio recorded versions with individual lead vocals by Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison. McCartney wrote the song and his version was the one released by The Beatles on “Let It Be”. Lennon’s version was recorded during The Beatles “Get Back” sessions.
Did John Lennon invent the art of “Making It Rain”? Not really but that photo of Lennon was obviously taken well before any of these guys “Made It Rain” or used money as a photo prop.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band released the double album “Some Time In New York City” in 1972. The cover was highlighted by a poster Yoko Ono had made of then United States President Richard Nixon and China’s communist dictator Chairman Mao Zedong dancing together in the nude.
In 1984, this 51 foot Yellow Submarine metal sculpture was built by apprentices from the UK shipyard Cammell Laird for the International Garden Festival held in Liverpool, home of The Beatles. Here’s an old photo of the submarine at the festival.
Now here’s a cool photo we put together of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as school children a few decades before they would become the biggest band in the world.
The concept behind the album cover for Oasis’ B-side album The Masterplan was to have a young looking Noel Gallagher in front of a classroom teaching a bunch of old geezers music. Two things really stand out to me on this album cover.
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