'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' cover

[cornershop15]

Dedicated to HUGHJAMPTON (who is good at this sort of challenge), in the hope that it will bring him back.

Today is the 44th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' celebrated album (1967):

With the aid of the Internet (notably Google Images), I have located many of the photographs chosen for the collage - designed by Peter Blake and Jann Howarth - but some of them continue to elude me. Can anyone help to track them down? These webpages give details of Who's Who:

The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Photo Shoot: Faces in the Crowd

List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Wikipedia


These are some of my favourite discoveries so far:

American actor Tony Curtis and Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung

Shirley Temple:

Publicity still for Bright Eyes (1934)

And Tom Mix:

Another publicity still but I don't know the year or what the film is.

A few of those named in the lists are hidden behind other figures but, as fellow Beatles fans will know, it is possible to spot them in photographs taken at the session, including writer Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) and sculptor H.C. Westermann. You can also see the cut-outs of Ghandi and Hitler that were removed.

The real surprise is that I've been unsuccessful in my attempts to find some of the more famous faces - the likes of Bob Dylan, Fred Astaire, Oliver Hardy (a curious choice of photo) and Johnny Weissmuller. Maybe photo sites like Rex Features and new discovery SuperStock are the right places to look? Or a more thorough search at MovieGoods? I'll give a list of those I'm missing in my next post.

[Sgt Sunshine]

Great idea for a thread Cornershop.......
The Dylan head comes from the front cover of his 1965 album "Highway 61 Revisited".....



Lets hope Bob(Hughjhampton) does return soon....
Cheers
Sgt S

[golightly]

Albert Stubbins is 48 behind Marlene D, not 47 as shown in your link.

[cornershop15]

Many thanks for your replies, especially Sgt. Sunshine. I don't think it ever occured to me that the Bob Dylan picture was from one of his albums, even less that it's in colour ... Just noticed Gogglebox's contributions - brilliant stuff. Thank you very much. Bette Davis in Elizabeth & Essex?

Albert Stubbins is 48 behind Marlene D, not 47 as shown in your link.

Well-spotted, sir. No. 48 is that sculptor I mentioned last time, H.C. Westermann. He can be seen
below that unrecogniseable image of Oliver Hardy (with bowler hat) and next to Albert Stubbins*.


On the LP, his face is obscured by the feather on George Harrison's hat:
'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' album cover

As The Beatles aren't behind the drum in that picture we get to see full-length cut-outs of artist Larry Bell (striped trousers), Adolf Hitler (later replaced by Johnny Weissmuller by the look of it), Issy Bonn (waving) and Bette Davis, who was either removed or inexplicably hidden behind Paul and George. So is the man above her, who looks like a bit like Paul Stookey from Peter, Paul and Mary. I shouldn't think that's him though.

This must be the finished version, with the exception of Mahatma Ghandi (above Diana
Dors). He was "painted out at the request of EMI", according to the CD booklet's notes:

Who is that next to the waxwork Beatles? Peter Blake is on the right facing the camera.

*Liverpool footballer Albert Stubbins:

I was sure this is the photo on the cover (where he looks like Steve McQueen!), but now have my doubts.

Another of the obscured faces is Stephen Crane, American author of The Red Badge of Courage. In the
second photo from the album cover session, you can just about see him past the raised arm of Issy Bonn:


Room for two more faces:

Aleisteir Crowley and H.G. Wells

It's easier to list those I have found, which aren't as many as I thought (less than half):

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Robert Peel, Stan Laurel, Edgar Allan Poe, (I think) Mae West and Karl Marx, and maybe all of the gurus as well.

It's been that way for about three years. I hope that's not all I have to offer.

[jimw1]

Great Theme for a thread Cornershop.....lets hope Bob Comes back one Day...

I hope to post a couple of pics ASAP

[didi-5]

What a brilliant idea for a thread (and a challenge!).

[GoggleboxUK]

Here's the Johnny Weissmuller pic captured from one of the Tarzan movies:



and the Bette Davis one:

[Briant]

The Picture Show Annual 'Who's who on the screen' circa 1959 has a similar montage with lots of film stars on a staircase, including John Wayne, Alec Guiness, Maureen O'Hara, Tony Curtis, Liberace, Audrey Hepburn, Richard Todd, Doris Day, Diana Dors and Jane Russell, the latter lady in the same position and pose as Ms Dors on the Pepper sleeve. An unconscious tribute perhaps by Peter Blake?

[GoggleboxUK]

Here's an obscure one:

Timothy Carrey in Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" which needs to be flipped horizontally to get it right.

[golightly]

This could be the Stubbins picture.

[golightly]

This could be the Stubbins picture.

http://assets1.liverpoolfc.tv/upload...stubbins_5.jpg

[golightly]

Max Miller?

[golightly]

Aubrey Beardsley.

[cornershop15]

Thanks very much to Gogglebox and golightly for your great contributions. I obviously wasn't persistent enough in my search for some of those faces. I think I did well to find Tom Mix and Shirley Temple but not the heads that turned out to be from album covers.

Yes, I agree that's the one of Max Miller, straightened up to align with the others, and Albert Stubbins. Well done! Timothy Carey is a real surprise. I remember his scenes in The Killing very well, one of my favourite American films. He pretends to be disabled and racially offends James Edwards' character. He was also in another Kubrick film, Paths of Glory, as one of the 'cowardly' soldiers. I wonder why he was included in the collage? The image of him with a gun was a bit out of place with the Peace and Love theme. Delighted as well to see that elusive Aubrey Beardsley photo at last.

I'm again going to enclose the link to the front of the LP so you can compare all the pictures in another window:

'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' album cover


Some of my other discoveries over the years:


Lewis Carroll


Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen


Stan Laurel


Mae West (same picture?)


Edgar Allan Poe


Marlon Brando in The Wild One (1953)

My next post will focus on the mostly-hidden gurus and the waxwork Beatles.

[golightly]

Marlene D at Christies.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | Christie's

[jimw1]

Excellent work Cornershop......Im not sure where this picture comes from it may be a publicity shot but Im pretty sure its the One used for the Cover.....

WC Fields

[cornershop15]

Yes, definitely. Excellent work yourself, Jim! I don't know about anyone else but the originals are starting to haunt me even more than the cardboard cut-outs. If I was present at that session, and had stuck around for long enough, I'm sure they would have given me a terrible fright - like the dummies that come to life in that episode of The Twilight Zone (with Anne Francis). Very creepy.

I should have added that the photo session took place on 30th March 1967
with Michael Cooper behind the camera. This is how he looked at the time:


Photographed by Shepard Sherball, no less!

By the way, in response to Briant, the Diana Dors model was one of the waxworks at Madame Tussauds. Can you scan that all-star photo from the Picture Show annual for us?

[jimw1]

Cheers cornershop........
(Top left) the First face is that of Yukteswar Giri....the monastic name of Priyanath Karar...... Apparently.....

This looks very much like the Same Image used on the cover



more Info on Him Here

Yukteswar Giri - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Just Underneath Him slightly to the Right is Sir Robert Peel......this Image looks Very Similar

[cornershop15]

Thanks, Jim. I have fuller length versions of both pictures, which are among the easiest to find, as it happens. The first one is very definitely the same as on the Sgt. Pepper cover but I'm less confident about the Robert Peel portrait. Do you think it could be this one?:

If you Google Image search Robert Peel, Karl Marx and Edgar Allan Poe they all have at least two photos that are similar to the album cover. You have to look very closely, I think. For example, I was convinced for a long time that I'd found the right one of Mr. Poe, but he didn't have the black tie, as shown in my previous post. I think I'm right this time.

We might as well Reply with Quote to this link each time we post, having made such fantastic progress:

'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band' album cover

Thanks again to all.

[jimw1]

Im not totally Convinced by Both Pictures of Robert Peel Cornershop but he appears to be looking to his Left on the Cover.....

Another One Im not Totally Convinced of is This picture of the American Pop Singer Dion.......But its the Nearest I could Find....






Heres the Man Before he said Bye Bye to the Belmonts




http://i436.photobucket.com/albums/q...tsClubBand.jpg