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Beatles forums => The Beatles => Topic started by: The End on February 08, 2006, 01:01:05 PM
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Following on from Bobber's brilliant un-stretched Rubber Soul pic, I thought that it would be a great idea to have all the alternative photoshoots for their albums all in on place.
I know of at least 5 versions of Angus McBean's Please Please Me session - excluding the re-shoot, of which I know of two versions.
So, if you have the pics, please post them here! ;D
(http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/7024/rubbersoul36aj.jpg)
PS - no alternative White Album jokes!!! ;)
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Oh, but there was an alternative for the White Album! It's posted here: http://dmbeatles.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-albums/m-1137012282/
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An alternative picture for Beatles For Sale (there's more like this):
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3405/beatlesforsale0jf.jpg)
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Sgt Pepper ones:
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7204/sgtfront024ye.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3235/sgtfront039oo.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9756/sgtfront047uk.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/2371/sgtfront050xy.jpg)
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/769/sgtfront064ti.jpg)
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7338/sgtfront070mv.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/5228/sgtfront085ux.jpg)
(http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/5346/sgtfront099we.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/9764/sgtfront103qd.jpg)
(http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/7297/sgtfront110lw.jpg)
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(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3592/2with2fr.gif)
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Abbey Road:
(http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/2020/a19hp.jpg)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/724/a29xw.jpg)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/4325/a37rq.jpg)
(http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/8573/a41nf.jpg)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/657/a54hi.jpg)
(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/6028/a67gl.jpg)
(http://img335.imageshack.us/img335/7170/a73lj.jpg)
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PS - no alternative White Album jokes!!! ;)
what about jokes on your spelling of album? where's a bum?
;D :P
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It would really have been a nice touch if they had their Sgt. Pepper fold out Lp done like a portrait book and included all the different pics of them on the cover shot. I have never seen these before and they are stunning to say the least!
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here's a bum....not mine either...(http://www.tubby.org/helen-bbq/images/helen_bum.jpg)
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(http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/657/a54hi.jpg)
Haha, you can see them rushing
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Anyone got a full set of Angus McBean's Please Please Me session shots in colour?
The officially realeased versions:
1 Please Please Me LP
2 The Beatles No.1 EP
3 1962-1966 'Red Album'
I have a few other shots from this photo session, but unfortunately they're incredibly small pics.
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(http://www.eszlinger.com/beatles/beatles%20images/beatles%20images/Beatles%20-%20Please%20Me.jpg)
(http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/1332/thebeatlesno15au.jpg)
(http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/7494/red2fb.png)
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Yep, those are the released versions, here are a few more:
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm1.jpg)
The Please Please Me LP version without the lettering - this can be found on the Please Me Do bootleg and has been cropped - anyone got a better version of this?
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm3.jpg)
Taken from another bootleg!
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm4.jpg)
Black and white version of the above with no elseve lettering.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm4-1.jpg)
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And the alternates from the Blue Album!
The shot used on the Blue Album.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm7.jpg)
A slightly different version of the above sleeve taken from a bootleg of the Glyn Johns mix of the Get Back sessions.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm6.jpg)
Different suits for this bootleg of GLyn John's 2nd mix of the Get Back sessions!
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm5.jpg)
This is one that Kate just posted on another thread in the bootleg section! (12th May 2006)
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5433/55/1600/GetBack.0.jpg)
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(http://img346.imageshack.us/img346/9702/jacksonbeatles1hw.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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(http://img392.imageshack.us/img392/5990/yokoownsbeatles9ll.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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(http://img446.imageshack.us/img446/2960/newabbeyroadcopy8ff.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Cover of their next Greatest Hits!!!
Magical Rubber Road!!!LOL!!!
P.S. Take a look at John's leg ... 3 legs sang Paul and he was right :D
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(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/8272/1012vq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5049/1023mz.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
(http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/5472/1030du.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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love those last 3 raxo.
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([url]http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/5049/1023mz.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://imageshack.us[/url])
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Now that's what I'm talking about!!!! I have never even seen the 1st and 2nd pics before!! I think the 3rd pic is the same as the shot used on the Beatles Come Together bootleg (see page 1 of this topic).
Those are absolutely awesome!! Do you have any more of this series? Also, do you have these in a higher resolution (I've started collecting the out-takes you see!).
Cheers again (flower)
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Now that's what I'm talking about!!!! I have never even seen the 1st and 2nd pics before!! I think the 3rd pic is the same as the shot used on the Beatles Come Together bootleg (see page 1 of this topic).
Those are absolutely awesome!! Do you have any more of this series? Also, do you have these in a higher resolution (I've started collecting the out-takes you see!).
Cheers again (flower)
I know you have seen them before ... do you remember your source for that big pic of George playing the guitar during Help filming? ... you scanned it from ... The Anthology Book!!!
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Oh blimey!! I didn't realise they were in the Anthology book!!!
And I hadn't realised you were here that long ago when I posted that pic!!!
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Oh blimey!! I didn't realise they were in the Anthology book!!!
And I hadn't realised you were here that long ago when I posted that pic!!!
Ooh yeah ... I'm the guess star in this show ... my first visit? ... so long ago I can't remember it ... the age? Maybe ... LOL!
http://dmbeatles.com/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?b-conversations/m-1137810396/
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(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/909/butcher5yq.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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An alternate back for Abbey Road Album?
(http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/9843/abbeyroadbackalternate1ht.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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A NEW ONE JUST ADDED
And the alternates from the Blue Album!
The shot used on the Blue Album.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm7.jpg)
A slightly different version of the above sleeve taken from a bootleg of the Glyn Johns mix of the Get Back sessions.
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm6.jpg)
Different suits for this bootleg of GLyn John's 2nd mix of the Get Back sessions!
(http://premium1.uploadit.org/TheEndUK//ppm5.jpg)
This is one that Kate just posted on another thread in the bootleg section (12th May 2006). It looks as if it's the same version as the one above but it contains much more of the image (ie it hasn't been cropped as much).
(http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5433/55/1600/GetBack.0.jpg)
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Interesting link on different pictures of the 1969 Angus McBean picture plus other rare stuff: LINK (http://www.beatlefans.com/film/Beatles%20Get%20back%20Photo%20Session%20Page.htm)
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This was supposed to be the cover of The White Album. Later rejected.
(http://img25.imageshack.us/img25/4983/mooiste5th.jpg)
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(http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/uklp/white_album_alternate.jpg)
Another attempt for the cover of The Beatles.
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Thanks for that post ^
I've never seen that before.
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I found it here: http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/english/albumcovers.html
It's the Norwegian Beatlesfanclub and they're having a great site!
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Nice site Bobber! :)
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Great site, Bobber.
I don't recall having already seen the drawing they all did together in Japan.
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Alternatives for the Hey Jude album:
(http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg4/judecvr.jpg)
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Yesterday and Today: (http://www.rarebeatles.com/photopg4/4colosep.jpg)
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Korean version of Sgt Pepper: (http://www.beatletracks.com/images/spkorea1.jpg)
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That is really awful!
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That is really awful!
Unless there is some great Korean cultural taboo about images of dead people or somesuch, it's hard to imagine what thought process went through the art departments head when the original artwork arrived on their desk.
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Some of the Asian versions of Sgt Pepper didn't have With A Little Help From My Friends, A Day In The Life and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds on it, because it was thought it had a connection with drugs. Instead it had I Am The Walrus, Baby You're A Rich Man and Your Mother Should Know in the tracklist. But I bet Lennonlegend could have told you that.
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(http://www.norwegianwood.org/e107_7/e107_files/downloads/revolversketch2.jpg)
[size=9]Early sketch of Revolver - Klaus Voorman[/size]
(http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/uklp/revolver_early.jpg)
[size=9]Attempt to recreate the finished drawing before collage[/size]
The album's title isn't decided until July 2nd 1966, while the Beatles are on tour, in Tokyo. At first Abracadabra was considered. But somebody else had used that title already. Other candidates were Magic Circles and Beatles On Safari, Bubble And Squeak and Free Wheelin' Beatles. In the end, everybody is happy with Revolver. The title suggests the movement of the record on the turntable. It has nothing to do with a gun.
For the back cover, a black-and white picture by Robert Whitaker shows the four well known faces, covered in sunglasses. It was taken during the shooting of the Paperback Writer/Rain promo films. For the Capitol version of Revolver a slightly different picture is used.
On 11 March 1967 Revolver is awarded with the "Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts of 1966", during the ninth annual Grammy Awards
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ABBEY ROAD
(http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/lp/images/abbey_official.jpg)
[size=9]Abbey Road - Iain MacMillan[/size]
At first the album was going to be called Everest, after the brand of cigarettes smoked by the engineer Geoff Emerick. It was suggested to make a photograph with the Mount Everest in the background. But none of the Beatles could be bothered to travel that far for an album cover.
When asked how far they wanted to go, the reply came: "Why don't we just do it in the street?"
Paul immediately made a rough drawing and freelance photographer Iain Macmillan, a friend of John and Yoko, was asked to make the picture.
(http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/images/arlayout.jpg)
[size=9]Paul's drawing[/size]
On Friday August 8. 1969, at 11.35 am, Iain stepped on a small ladder in the middle of Abbey Road, while a police officer stopped the traffic. The Beatles walked up and down the zebra crossing in front of the EMI Studio and Iain took six pictures. The fifth being the best. Not only was it the only photograph on which all four were in step, but also they walked away from the studio. A matter which seemed important to some of them at the moment.
Thanks to the research of Mark Lewisohn we know now that Macmillan used a Hasselblad camera, with a 50 mm wide-angle lens, aperture f22, at 1/500 sec.
Linda Eastman took some extra pictures of the Beatles, while they were waiting for the session.
This time the album came without a title on the front cover, and no lyric sheet ... being quite simple, it just had one photograph on the front, and one on the rear. For the back cover Iain Macmillan took a photograph of one of the many old-style tiled street signs.
(http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/abbey/images/a8.jpg)
[size=9]Abbey Road back cover photo - Iain MacMillan[/size]
On the original cover, the Beatles deliberately did not list 'Her Majesty' at the end of side 2. But no one informed the industry moguls in the US. As a result, the song was added to the eight track's listing and to some of the albums. It was eventually removed again from the cover. Thus, the album again differed ever so slightly from the British release.
A few months later every detail of this and the previous Beatles sleeves were studied the world over to search for clues for the dead of Paul McCartney. "I started to get letters and cards from people outlining how obvious it was that Paul was dead," recalled George Martin. "They said that they understood all our clues on the covers over the past few years years and, you know, I started believing it myself."
Peter Blake too was almost fooled: "We went to visit Paul. We talked about the rumors and he said, "You know I
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I don't know if I could have lived with a "Beatles On Safari" album title. Apart from being sickeningly naff it would have invited too many Pet Sounds comparisons. Revolver is so cool a name.
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On the original cover, the Beatles deliberately did not list 'Her Majesty' at the end of side 2. But no one informed the industry moguls in the US. As a result, the song was added to the eight track's listing and to some of the albums. It was eventually removed again from the cover. Thus, the album again differed ever so slightly from the British release
And, as another result, there's other versions of Abbey Road as well. I have a copy on vinyl which lacks Her Majesty! Made in the US, and they must have thought it was over after The End!
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The original pic? ??)
(http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/213/originalli8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
... by the way, did you know that there were some "alternative" album shots in others parts too? :D:
This is from the Chinese market ....
(http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/8944/albumcoverchinesebeatlesx8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
Notice that all the band member's eyes? ... changed to make them look more "asianized" ::) ... and in John's case, even more stoned :D ...
... and that the phonetic translation of the band name, actually means "diheveled hair" in Chinese.
?? = diheveled hair (often referring to an untidy woman)
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([url]http://www.norwegianwood.org/e107_7/e107_files/downloads/revolversketch2.jpg[/url])
[size=9]Early sketch of Revolver - Klaus Voorman[/size]
I actually prefer this to this finished thing. Never did like that cover much.
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BTW Rax, where did you find that Revolver drawing?
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OK, I've found it. ::)
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OK, I've found it. ::)
Great! ;D
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(http://img452.imageshack.us/img452/348/rtyrtyrtyrkn1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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(http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/1016/rrrrrrx2.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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We probably won't ever see more alternatives to Please Please Me, according to this message:
CLASSIC original photographs of The Beatles were lost forever after they were accidentally chucked in the trash. The iconic 1963 pictures
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This is how Klaus Voorman drawed it ...
(http://img61.imageshack.us/img61/2103/studioup1.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
... but coloured it looks cool too 8) ...
(http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/543/revolver1hk8.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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([url]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/543/revolver1hk8.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://imageshack.us[/url])
It so mesmorizing!!! so Cool!!!! ;)
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It so mesmorizing!!! so Cool!!!! ;)
Ringo blonde and ... and George as David Bowie!!! ;D
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Originally intended to by the Sgt Pepper cover:
(http://www.beatlesfanclub.nl/pages/nieuws/pepperhoes.jpg)
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Great site, Bobber.
I don't recall having already seen the drawing they all did together in Japan.
There is a picture of it in Robert Whitaker's book Eight Days A Week. Do you want me to make a scan of it?
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([url]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/909/butcher5yq.jpg[/url]) ([url]http://imageshack.us[/url])
Uhh...very meaty. ::)
Did anyone notice that this photo is flipped the wrong way?
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I was going to mention this in the "recently-bought Beatles items" thread, but it's probably more apt here.
I was in London yesterday and picked up a couple of books from the (normally massively overpriced) Beatles store on Baker Street. One was an illustrated worldwide discography of Beatles LPs from around the world, and the other took in singles and EPs.
http://www.beatles-worldwide.com/
They were written by a slightly overenthusiastic Hamburg guy (each paragraph contains at least one exclamation mark!), but the attention to detail is amazing, as are many of the sleeves. The Russian LPs in particular were often redrawn by an unknown artist (or amended for no apparent reason - see the Revolver sleeve, above) or amended in other imaginary ways. On Sgt Pepper, for example, the guy who ran the Russian record company put a picture of himself on the montage, as seen here: http://www.earcandymag.com/christophmaus2-2005.htm
I know this isn't exactly what this thread's about, but some other cool things include a 1970s Dutch version of Help! which had a Shell oil logo behind The Beatles, and a Singapore release of Sgt Pepper that dropped three songs which had drug references (WALHFMF, ADITL, LITSWD), and replaced them with three others... including I Am The Walrus!
Anyway, a fascinating read, though I don't think the books are widely available. You can buy them through the author's website for 38 Euros/$50 each, but as far as I know they're not on sale in bookshops. Slightly on the pricey side but good if you're an obsessive.
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There is a picture of it in Robert Whitaker's book Eight Days A Week. Do you want me to make a scan of it?
No need:
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aiZUk4fxKiE/RctgItwj9CI/AAAAAAAAAPw/RLGQ66paQaM/s400/japan2.jpg)
Think they named it 'Images of a Woman'
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No need:
([url]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_aiZUk4fxKiE/RctgItwj9CI/AAAAAAAAAPw/RLGQ66paQaM/s400/japan2.jpg[/url])
Think they named it 'Images of a Woman'
Thanks. It's a bit more colourful in the book.
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([url]http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/uklp/white_album_alternate.jpg[/url])
Another attempt for the cover of The Beatles.
Very nice!
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([url]http://www.norwegianwood.org/beatles/disko/uklp/white_album_alternate.jpg[/url])
Another attempt for the cover of The Beatles.
In colour!
(http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/4125/99206781.jpg) (http://img192.imageshack.us/i/99206781.jpg/)
(http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/817/42061375.jpg) (http://img339.imageshack.us/i/42061375.jpg/)
(http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/8517/77158508.jpg) (http://img137.imageshack.us/i/77158508.jpg/)
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5889/42876272.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/i/42876272.jpg/)
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/5842/20163904.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/i/20163904.jpg/)
Originally intended to by the Sgt Pepper cover:
([url]http://www.beatlesfanclub.nl/pages/nieuws/pepperhoes.jpg[/url])
Bigger!
(http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/8412/ppr.jpg) (http://img514.imageshack.us/i/ppr.jpg/)
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Those images of the White Album alternate covers are so cool! I wish I had a copy to put up in my room alog with the original White Album poster. Thanks everyone for sharing all of these great images with the forum. It's really a treasure.
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Could this be a Beatles For Sale outtake? Isn't it great that John is literally elevated, or is he just standing on top of something?
(http://www.aworldtowin.net/images/images330/The%20Beatles%20Robert%20Whitaker31.jpg)
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^I think that photograph is from when they were in Scotland! I found this video a while ago and it has footage of them with the umbrellas.
And I think John is just standing on a post. ;)
The Beatles, Scotland Holiday 1964 - UNSEEEN FOOTAGE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNVsrfid-UM#normal)
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The Beatles Owned By Yoko parody cover is pretty funny... thanks for posting that.
I really like the Abbey Road shots...
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These are great!