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Post by JoJo on Jul 15, 2007 17:01:28 GMT -5
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Post by fourthousandholes on Jul 15, 2007 20:48:13 GMT -5
Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!
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Post by plastic paul on Jul 16, 2007 6:21:11 GMT -5
Do you own a copy JoJo?
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Post by eyesbleed on Jul 16, 2007 7:14:32 GMT -5
Ya, I think so. I managed to find a copy on Ebay a while back, but I just never got around to scanning it. Thanks again Jojo.
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Post by mommybird on Jul 16, 2007 8:25:50 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Jo & Eyesbleed. I feel that the booklet is a person's parady of the movie. Since the movie itself is inane, it stands to reason that the booklet would be even more so. Also, since everyone was dropping acid like crazy back then, maybe the illustrator was tripping when he drew those panels. All I'm saying is that we have to keep in mind that we don't know everything about how things were back when they created MMT & everything surrounding it.
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Post by plastic paul on Jul 16, 2007 8:35:44 GMT -5
Ya, I think so. I managed to find a copy on Ebay a while back, but I just never got around to scanning it. Thanks again Jojo. Yeah that's where I got mine from, £15 including p&p. I reckon that's a bargain!
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Post by CoconutFudge on Jul 17, 2007 2:00:19 GMT -5
Man. Faul's ears are really stick-y-out-y.
That said, this thread is fantastic. Thanks so much for posting it!
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Post by fourthousandholes on Jul 17, 2007 7:47:37 GMT -5
So were Paul's. As Lilly once said, "like open car doors".
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Post by beatlies on Jul 17, 2007 18:06:05 GMT -5
The Fohn Fennon dressed in red, white and black serving Italian spaghetti to Ringo's Aunt Jessie resembles this native Liverpudlian, also on the cover of Sgt. Pepper as the white stone head: Goes with Happy Nat(zi) Jackley the Hitler-resembling rubber face man.
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Post by brotherdave on Jul 17, 2007 18:19:11 GMT -5
Catch this above Faul ?
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Post by beatlies on Jul 17, 2007 18:23:02 GMT -5
Catch this above Faul ? And that looks like Neil/Feil behind and to the viewer's left of Feorge.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 17, 2007 18:26:53 GMT -5
The Fohn Fennon dressed in red, white and black serving Italian spaghetti to Ringo's Aunt Jesse resembles this native Liverpudlian, also on the cover of Sgt. Pepper as the white stone head: Goes with Happy Nat(zi) Jackley the Hitler-resembling rubber face man. It's apparent in the Nat(zi) bullfighting panel that the Man in the Crowd Happy Nat (isn't there a Who? song called "Happy Jack"?) is wearing HOBNAIL BOOTS. What happens when you put a mirror to this part as in the line in "Happiness is a Warm Gun"? Happy Nat's fingers on the red cape form the outline of a Ram's skull, such as we see in the mirror hidden picture to the right of the Shirley Temple doll on the Sgt. Pepper cover. Adolph Hitler's astrological sign is Aries the ram (Mars the god of war), and he is associated with the ram in the writings of Neo-Nazis and Nazi occultists. The Aries "Y" symbol also appears in this panel in the bull's strange tail (pun on tale?) and horns, and a horseshoe-like white object. Hitler was born on the cusp bisection of Taurus the Bull and Aries the Ram, April 20, the cape appears to be decapitiating the bull, and its teeth are "MUNCH"ing the grass, similar to "MUNICH," in German "MUNCHEN".
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Post by CoconutFudge on Jul 17, 2007 22:30:17 GMT -5
So were Paul's. As Lilly once said, "like open car doors". That I know, I just phrased what in a completely stupid way. It made sense to me, but apparently people can't read my mind. What's that all about?! ;D I meant that his ears stick out much more than I thought they did. In most pictures I've seen of Faul, his ears were always kind of more pinned to his head, so those couple photos where his ears stick out were surprising to me! CoconutFudge, queen of confusion.
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Post by iameye on Jul 18, 2007 0:12:58 GMT -5
But we do know the cartoon artist, Bob Gibson had worked with the Beatles for a while knew them quite well. It would be interesting to see a comparison of his early and latter work depicting Paul.........does anyone have access to this?
"The Beatles Book (also known as Beatles Monthly) was founded in 1963 by publisher Sean O’Mahony. It was first published in August 1963 and continued for 77 editions until it stopped publication after the December 1969 edition, by which time The Beatles had effectively ceased to exist. In May 1976 O’Mahony revived the publication and republished all 77 original issues surrounded by eight (later sixteen) pages of new Beatles news and articles. The reissue program completed in September 1982, coincidentally at a time when interest in the band was high due to the impending twentieth anniversary of Love Me Do. Consequently the decision was taken to continue the magazine with all new content. Publication continued until January 2003 (Issue 320) when it once again ceased. In early 1963 O’Mahony published a magazine about the music scene called “Beat Instrumental”. On hearing Please Please Me he realised something special was happening and asked Brian Epstein if he could publish a magazine devoted to The Beatles. Epstein and the group agreed and the title launched in August 1963 with a print run of 80,000 [1]. By the end of the year circulation had grown to 330,000 copies per month [2]. O’Mahony edited the magazine under the name of Johnny Dean. The magazine’s photographer, Leslie Bryce had unrivalled access to the group throughout the 1960s, travelling the world and taking thousands of photographs. In addition, Beatles roadies Neil Aspinall and the late Mal Evans wrote many of the articles, and artist Bob Gibson created numerous cartoons and charicatures of the fab four on a regular basis."
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Post by Valis on Jul 18, 2007 20:21:05 GMT -5
hmmm ,
good to know Mal was also a ghostwriter for Beatle Book. Since 64 Beatle Book had a writer named Billy Shepherd, he had a series called "2 YEARS AGO TODAY" . It was a diary of everything the Beatles were doing 2 years before the issue was released. Ofcourse it had to be made by someone who was very close to the band, it was so detailed. The last episode of that serial came in the August 68 issue of Beatle Book chronicling August 66.
At first I thought it was written by the imposter. But now I think it might have been Mal. He clearly acts as a handler to Beatle Bill, so maybe after august 66 he was a bit too busy to keep updating his diary.
All Love Jan
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Post by JoJo on Jul 18, 2007 21:02:49 GMT -5
At first I thought it was written by the imposter. But now I think it might have been Mal. He clearly acts as a handler to Beatle Bill, so maybe after august 66 he was a bit too busy to keep updating his diary. The last paragraph on this page quotes Mal, who talks about "Paul jumping on his back for a piggy back ride". I strongly suspected Mal for a long time, but someone who went on to be an imposter..no, it doesn't make sense, as this person would have to have magic powers of invisibility to not be noted somewhere, someplace as being part of the entourage. The Mal explanation also makes sense, as yes, he sure had nothing he could share regarding the Africa trip, although his home movies from Africa and later stuff from the U.S. trip in 1967 said plenty.. But, there was someone else who seemed to be unavailable in 1966 for whatever reason, and liked pseudonyms..
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Post by Jude on Jul 18, 2007 23:55:07 GMT -5
Reading this booklet has made me very sad. Sad because I know I'll never be able to see all these great scenes that got cut from the film, like Aunt Jessie playing the drums.
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Post by TotalInformation on Jul 19, 2007 0:11:34 GMT -5
Who is the illustrator of record again here? Who is the actual illustrator? Lennon maybe? The last paragraph on this page quotes Mal, who talks about "Paul jumping on his back for a piggy back ride". It's also a reminder of how much smaller a man JPM was then the FAUL (Evans was huge!). I think Aspinall & Evans wrote the Beatle Book, but if JPM wanted something put in there for whatever reason it, it got in. Mal was loyal.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 20, 2007 4:02:40 GMT -5
I am the Walrus backwards: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBLzCrCn-4UI disagree with some of the word interpretations in this youtube, but I would say that he is correct in saying that the word "Nazi" appears beginning at 8:04 .......
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Post by beatlies on Jul 22, 2007 20:13:08 GMT -5
The bottom panel on page 15 with Faul sleeping at his military desk has a picture hanging behind him of a "one-breasted" dark haired woman. This could be a sadistic reference to the breast cancer and mastectomy of JPM's mother, but it could also be this, a well-known photo of Aleister Crowley's important muse and inspiration, whom he called the "Mother of God" or "Mother of Heaven" Leila Waddell:
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Post by tafultong on Sept 16, 2007 20:39:43 GMT -5
I was searching the forum and couldn't find much about the chalkboard in the background of the Magicians' Scenes in Magical Mystery Tour. The picture from the booklet and the one from the YouTube video below are very interesting. Has anyone ever analyzed this in detail?
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Post by B on Sept 16, 2007 20:56:11 GMT -5
I don't believe anyone here has done that, but then again, the board doesn't appear to have much going for it in the picture you've posted. It looks like random "magical" looking symbols. The "M" is the astrological symbol for Scorpio, and sometimes Virgo. I see what might pass for the symbol of Venus, stars, and some incomplete math equations. Nothing that really works together.... beatlies' post above (#19) is intriguing. I would be inclined to dismiss it, were it not for the fact that it is that scene that has the "I was" poster in it, and Crowley's spirit guide for his "Book of the Law' was "Aiwass", so beatlies is probably right in his assessment, in that the cartoonist apparently wants people to make the Crowley connection. Not only for the sake of Aleister, but you may (or may not) recall that there was some speculation at TKIN about the identity of Apple secretary "Jenny Crowley", who looked like Paul. And the Faul song "Jenny Wren" seemed a possible link to Paul as well, so one might want to consider Jenny "Crowley" Wren, or Apollo "Crowley" Vermouth or other such possibilities. All in the family? "Son of the Magickcian"?
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Post by iameye on Sept 16, 2007 21:36:23 GMT -5
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Post by iameye on Sept 16, 2007 22:13:02 GMT -5
off the subject, but I've always wondered about the "Vermouth" surname ... "Vermouth is an aperitif named from the Latin "aperio" meaning "to open". And that is exactly what an aperitif is supposed to do - open or whet the appetite before a meal. " ..... "The person credited with the first vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, an herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. The modern German word Wermut (Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano's time) means both wormwood and vermouth. coincidence again that Crowley pops up? Absinthe: The Green Goddess www.oxygenee.net/Crowley-Green-Goddess.pdf
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Post by jarvitronics on Sept 16, 2007 22:44:26 GMT -5
off the subject, but I've always wondered about the "Vermouth" surname ... "Vermouth is an aperitif named from the Latin "aperio" meaning "to open". And that is exactly what an aperitif is supposed to do - open or whet the appetite before a meal. " ..... "The person credited with the first vermouth recipe, Antonio Benedetto Carpano from Turin, Italy, chose to name his concoction "vermouth" in 1786 because he was inspired by a German wine flavored with wormwood, an herb most famously used in distilling absinthe. The modern German word Wermut (Wermuth in the spelling of Carpano's time) means both wormwood and vermouth. coincidence again that Crowley pops up? Absinthe: The Green Goddess www.oxygenee.net/Crowley-Green-Goddess.pdfVermouth was probably chosen as a wordplay on the song "I'm the Urban Spaceman." Vermouth is wine that has been infused with herbs and spices. "I'm the Herb and Spice Man." -j
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