At present I’m working
on a jigsaw of the cover of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. As I’ve
been doing it I’ve been trying to recognise the characters in the background.
Some I can, others I can’t.
The obvious ones are
Bob Dylan, WC Fields, Oscar Wilde, Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe, Laurel &
Hardy. I’m trying to decide which busty blonde bombshell it is. I suspect it’s
Diana Dors. And are those Marlene Dietrich & Tony Curtis? Some faces were no doubt famous at the time but are now long
forgotten.
It seems a long time
ago since the album & this image were created in 1967. I was still at
secondary school. The glammed-up military style clothes the Beatles are wearing
were very much in in those days. It was the time when colour arrived in fashion
for both men & women. We were finally coming out of the brown & beige
post war years. As I say, a long time ago.
Life seems to have
turned darker since then. The vivid colours gone as unemployment demanded a
more sober attitude to life. The opportunity to just celebrate life & be
full of hope, to know a feeling than anything could be done, could happen.
Maybe this just is reflection of my own growing older, but I don’t see that innocent
enthusiasm among the young these days. No, maybe it is just that I’m getting
old & feeling my years.
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