Remember this? When the Beatles came out with one of the greatest albums of all time, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, everyone I knew were trying to name who all the people on the cover. Everyone knew some, none knew all. I've had this album in various combinations, albums, 8-Track, cassette, CD, Reel to Reel ( almost forgot this one) since it came out 1967. I never really knew, or cared really, about all of them until I found this on Stumbleupon.
But, I found out a few things I didn't know. Theres over 60 people, but some, like Shirley Temple are on more than once. Shirley three times. I know not why. John Lennon, being John Lennon, wanted Hitler on the cover. According to the article, the record company, EMI stopped him from putting up Hitler, Christ and even Gandhi. They caught a lot of flak years earlier from the album with all the dead babies on the cover that was recalled and another cover put on. I think it's a collectors album.
I remember I was pissed because they wouldn't put the White Album out in America with the original cover. Once I saw him and Yoko naked, I was cool with it just being White. All the people gave their permission, or their heirs did, except some guy named Leo Gorsey. Who? I had to Google the guy. He wanted $400 and they wouldn't give it to him. I couldn't get his picture up, but I bet he wished many times that he would have given them permission.
He was a Dead End Kid in movies back in the 1930's and 40's. But, I guess he is a helluva trivia question. I didn't know it, but then again, I never asked. The internet with Google information at the tip of your fingers is an amazing thing. It just pisses me off when kids listen to wrong information and won't even take a few seconds to check out the truth. But, thats for another day. I know most of you know all this, but I just wanted to put it up to have on my site. Also to play a song I like. I do love this album!
I got all this info from this site:
I had to re-copy every picture because they wouldn't show up when you published them. It took me a couple of hours, so I guess now you know how much I love this album. I'm way too lazy to do this for the hell of it. If I happened to have missed one, please don't go ballistic on my ass. I thought this was going to be a simple cut and paste job. So, no, I didn't count them all. Plus, I had to change some photos to fit. If anyone has any trivia about it, let me know, I'm curious . Thanks~
The following is the complete list of all the people on the cover of SgtPeppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: ( i think)
Yukteswar Giri - Hindu guru
Aleister Crowley - Magician
Mae West - Actress
Lenny Bruce - Comedian
Karlheinz Stockhausen - German Composer
W. C. Fields - Comedian
Carl Jung - Psychologist
Edgar Allan Poe - Writer and Poet
Fred Astaire - Actor
The Vargas Girl - Fictional Pin-up Girl
Richard Merkin - Artist
Huntz Hall - Actor
Simon Rodia- Designer
Bob Dylan - Musician
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 - Comedian
Marilyn Monroe
William S. Burroughs - Writer
Mahavatar Babaji - Hindu Guru
Stan Laurel - Comedian
Richard Lindner - Artist
Oliver Hardy- Comedian
Karl Marx- Political Philosopher
H. G. Wells - Writer
Paramahansa Yogananda- Hindu Guru
Sigmund Freud - Psychiatrist
Stuart Sutcliffe- Musician / Former Beatle
Max Miller- Comedian
A Petty Girl - A Series of Cartoon Pin-up Girls by Artist George Petty. A second pretty girl appears on the front row.
Marlon Brando - Actor
Tom Mix - Actor
Oscar Wilde- writer
Tyrone Power- Actor
Larry Bell- Artist
David Livingstone - Missionary
Johnny Weissmuller- Actor
Stephen Crane - Writer
Issy Bonn - Comedian
George Bernard Shaw - Playwright
H. C. Westermann - Sculptor
Albert Stubbins- English Football Player
Sri Lahiri Mahasaya - Guru
Lewis Carroll - Writer
T. E. Lawrence- The Historical Lawrence of Arabia
Sonny Liston- Boxer
Shirley Temple (appears three times on cover)
Albert Einstein - Physicist
The Beatles also appear thee times
Bobby Breen Musician
Marlene Dietrich Actress
Diana Dors Actress
- Two figures in the cover photo are hairdresser's wax dummies.
- It was the first UK album to have the lyrics printed on the inside cover.
- There was a long running urban legend that the green plants in the photo are cannabis.
Info from:
Photos Courtesy of Google Images
Alii
Steel Breeze
Eljekar
beauty1947
hilarad
Lisa Tibbitts
Salon.com
Comments
Awesome post, and cool memories. I never knew huxley was on there.
Thanks
Rated
And I was so sure Gandhi was in there. Hmmm. Must have been George Harrison's gurus who confused me.
They just lost me after that.
sigh..
rated with hugs
I'd read plenty about the album but had never seen the list of figures. Quite the eclectic mix. Aside from Gorcey, I thought one woman also turned them down. Or maybe it was Mae West who took some persuading. You probably saw Gorcey in one of the Bowery Boys movies. Huntz Hall was also from that gang.
Real Good.
R
Thanks, Scanner. Some of your best...
Great post and what makes this all the better is I never know one of my favorite artists is on the cover:
Simon Rodia, who created the Watts Towers. That had to have been John Lennon's doing. Or maybe George, but I think John. And now I wonder if he ever went there to see it. I hope so.
Wonderful post Scanner. You're a treasure your own self. **
Thanks. I'm copy&pasting it.
Some of us were naval gazers and lost.
This Open Salon is a remedial supper dish.
My sister has asked me`Where were you?
I was pondering the mysterious cosmos?
I am still more lost than I was at sax age.
By seven I was bumming dough on street.
I would glue a penny to the K- Street curb.
When baker bent over I pickpocket hicks.
It's fun to rob the bankers of Wine Jugs.
Thanks scanner. I will spend time later.
The You Tube are slow speed dial soap.
I may use fragrant lavender sheep soap.
You probably use goat lanolin to stinks.
on/on
apology
I do say...
Ni drink much.
Dylan Thomas did.
In one sitting he gulped.
He drank strong whiskey.
Sip a small bit for tummies.
I'll email this to my sisters.
They say some farmer daze.
For some reason I daydream.
Serious. This is a great remedial.
Kinda funny you'd post this today, scanner. We watched the movie Pirate Radio last night: seems to fit right in!
Strange that I can remember this.
Anyway, we bought the album and went home to drop some acid and, I think we sat there for hours, just playing and replaying and replaying the album.
I think that, more than any other album, this takes me back there to then.
This was fun, scanner.
Thanks for the trip.
BTW-You ought to have experienced the fun of being stoned and rolling down the hill in B V Pk.lol
I remember some clues that fueled the "Paul is dead" rumors, many on this album cover:
http://www.aboutthebeatles.com/paulisdeadclues_visual.php#a2
I still have the cut-outs insert, uncut.
Thanks for your focused diligence, Scanner! Fun distraction on a cold day.
Lezlie
:-0)
I'm in the Stone's camp for the guitars mainly.
Good post though Geez.
If I recall correctly there was a rare early cover printed with Mahatma Ghandi , who was later removed.
If I were to do this, I'd have just identified the guys on the cover of Abbey Road.
Jim K
@Boanerges Redux - please - the Leibovitz photos were taken in 1980, roughly ten years after the Beatles broke up
Hugs and love from Colombia ScanMan
Thank you for that. I thought both pictures were Freud.