Orginal White Album Cover

[JoJo]

I know this is in a thread somewhere, but I can't find it.. A good quality version of the original WA cover. (until they decided to go all white)



Really big version:

www.jojoplace.org/Shoebox/White_Album/White_Album_Orig_Cover_Big.jpg

[LOVELYRITA]

Something about the Dome like image in the Beatles logo...reminds me of the image of the Taj Mahal in India.

A while back I watched a program where people thought there was a black Taj Mahal that mirrored the White building.

It turned out there was nothing much on the bank on the other side of the body of water by the Taj Mahal...but it strikes me as the India experience.

Near the bottom right hand corner there is a shadow that looks like the top of JPM's head and you can see a profile of his eye, nose and cheek. As though they found him on the beach...

it's not in the corner but off to the left a small distance...maybe it's supposed to be a rock, but it looks like the top of Paul's head IMO.

[mommybird]

I see Paul's right profile in the lower right hand corner. It might just be there representation of Paul. It definitely looks like it was put there on purpose, as opposed to it being an optical illusion.
His image is overlayed over the rock, translucent, as if he is a "spirit". He appears to be looking off into the distance. If you examine that image of JPM & compare it to the representation of Faul, you can see how much they DON'T resemble each other !

The above photos are the man portrayed in that image in the rock.


I never would've seen this if you didn't mention it, Rita. This is a HUGE clue !
Great job !

[blackbird]

JoJo ! that is wild ! Really !

How did you get a hold of that picture of the original cover ?

Do you think that they were stopped from using this cover ? and that maybe they rebelled and decided to just not have ANYTHING on the cover - hence, THE WHITE ALBUM ?

[B]

Yes, Jojo, that picture was in this thread

invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=pidpix&action=display&thread=1155539969&page=1

but tkp66 removed his pictures, so it's good you've started this thread.



There's an enormous bird in this image. Here is where it is:



It's easy to see in the image you posted.

[JoJo]

blackbird said:

JoJo ! that is wild ! Really !

How did you get a hold of that picture of the original cover ?

Do you think that they were stopped from using this cover ? and that maybe they rebelled and decided to just not have ANYTHING on the cover - hence, THE WHITE ALBUM ?

A really huge collection of misc art, mostly album covers, is making the file sharing rounds, found this buried in there. Still haven't found an explanation for the switch really.

[B]

I suspect that the switch may have been due to the fact that they tried to show so much in
this drawing that it would have signaled that something was amiss, drawing undue attention
to itself, while being too bewildering to be explainable if anyone asked about it. I will be commenting
on this and other Beatle album covers in the 'lucifer' thread later tonight or tomorrow.
I think that they tried to show a whole Iamaphoney video worth of material on this cover.
Some of this has been covered before:

The boat on the left is comprised of a pair of shoes (circled in purple). Empty shoes: death.
Under the green arrow, a square "sun roof" with Paul standing under it. (Crossing the river Styx.)
The yellow sail on the boat is a small jet. (Hear the Pink Floyd song "Learning To Fly".)
Small face on cliff surrounded in violet looks a bit like George Martin.
Ringo's nostrils are out of place - possibly relating to the expression about "getting one's
nose out of joint" - suggests 'having a fit'.
Yellow circles - 2 Pauls dressed in yellow.
The one at the top of the mountain waving "Hi"; the other one
flying by John's nose, holding a baby.
The orange circles the face of Dr. Mengele! So again, the idea that there are two Pauls, one
or both cloned in some way.
Circled in red, lower right: a "tin man" type face on a rock? (?)

In the 'The Beatles' thing, there are 5 "flowers", one of which is red. (5 Beatles; one 'dead'?)



There is a DNA type spiral or ladder between John's right glasses lense, and the Billy Shears face.
The child's face with the torch held over it "Statue of Liberty" style, with Johnny H. face or
something behind it. (Hear "Signs of Life" on Pink Floyd's "A Momentary Lapse of Reason".)
Under the bird's beak is an indecipherable (imo) archway of some sort.

[FAUllibLE]

This article mentions Faul conceiving the all white album and it has a mountain face to boot.




Big Mountain Face

A hand signed, limited edition lithograph. This image was used on the cover of his "Paintings" book. Each lithograph is individually hand signed and numbered by Sir Paul McCartney. Overall size is approximately 26" x 34" with the actual image size being smaller. This edition is limited to only 200 copies worldwide.


"I thought I would love to paint, I thought it would be very liberating for me, I had got a lot of visual ideas" Sir Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney was inspired to pick up the paintbrush by the old adage 'life begins at forty'. After his 60th birthday in June 2002, he will have now been painting regularly for twenty years - but his relationship with art goes back to his childhood in Liverpool.

At school, Paul remembers being fascinated by the contents of the stationery cupboard - plain, blank paper and boxes of pencils that filled his head with dreams.

The idea of an empty background as a starting point - be it a white wall or clean canvas - is still a source of inspiration for Paul. He talks about the excitement and challenge of 'killing the canvas' or making the initial mark on the surface. It is interesting to note that the minimalist cover for 'The Beatles' (white album) was conceived by Paul with artist Richard Hamilton.

When he was eleven he used a school prize to buy his first modern art book, including works by Dali and Picasso. Then at fourteen he won an art prize for a drawing of St Aidan's Church on the Speke housing estate where he lived. The church reappears in Paul's 1990 painting, 'Home territory' along with his childhood homes in Western Avenue and Forthlin Road.

"Some of these faces might as well be landscapes because a lot of the time all I want to do is apply paint … sometimes just putting on the paint is more interesting than actually thinking what it all means" Sir Paul McCartney

[blackbird]

Letter B, how did you come up with all that. It is quite interesting. Wish I could make out the picture better.

All of this is very interesting.

[B]

tpk66 noticed the two Pauls. The other things I noticed, but I didn't recognise Dr. Mengele, or
understand why he would be on the cover, until I saw the iamaphoney video suggesting a cloning link.
I first saw this cover back in 1969. There was a fellow at Ithaca College whose father was a Beatles
insider. He told us the Beatles were going to break up, but no one wanted to believe him,
so we didn't. I can't recall if what I saw at the time was in a magazine article about the cover,
or the actual cover itself; one that had actually been printed.
I can imagine if it was the latter, it's probably worth a fortune now! In my memory it seems
as if it was the actual cover!
(I wish I could remember who the guy was! No doubt he could tell us a thing or two!
Unfortunately I don't remember who it was. )