The Beatles Shot The Sgt. Peppers Album Cover Photo OTD In 1967
March 30, 2021
Who's on it? Besides The Beatles, I mean.
Top row
- (1) SriYukteswar Giri(Hinduguru)
- (2)Aleister Crowley(occultist)
- (3)Mae West(actress)
- (4)Lenny Bruce(comedian)
- (5)Karlheinz Stockhausen(composer)
- (6)W. C. Fields(comedian/actor)
- (7)Carl Jung(psychiatrist)
- (8)Edgar Allan Poe(writer)
- (9)Fred Astaire(actor/dancer)
- (10)Richard Merkin(artist)
- (11)The Vargas Girl(by artistAlberto Vargas)
- (12)Leo Gorcey(image was removed from cover, but a space remains)
- (13)Huntz Hall(actor)
- (14)Simon Rodia(designer and builder of theWatts Towers)
- (15)Bob Dylan(singer/songwriter)
Second row[edit]
- (16)Aubrey Beardsley(illustrator)
- (17)Sir Robert Peel(19th century British Prime Minister)
- (18)Aldous Huxley(writer)
- (19)Dylan Thomas(poet)
- (20)Terry Southern(writer)
- (21)Dion DiMucci(singer/songwriter)
- (22)Tony Curtis(actor)
- (23)Wallace Berman(artist)
- (24)Tommy Handley(comedian)
- (25)Marilyn Monroe(actress)
- (26)William S. Burroughs(writer)
- (27) SriMahavatar Babaji(Hindu guru)
- (28)Stan Laurel(actor/comedian)
- (29)Richard Lindner(artist)
- (30)Oliver Hardy(actor/comedian)
- (31)Karl Marx(political philosopher)
- (32)H. G. Wells(writer)
- (33) SriParamahansa Yogananda(Hindu guru)
- (34A)James Joyce(Irish poet and novelist) – barely visible below Bob Dylan
- (34)Anonymous(hairdresser's wax dummy)
Third row[edit]
- (35)Stuart Sutcliffe(artist/former Beatle)
- (36)Anonymous(hairdresser's wax dummy)
- (37)Max Miller(comedian)
- (38) A "Petty Girl" (by artistGeorge Petty)
- (39)Marlon Brando(actor)
- (40)Tom Mix(actor)
- (41)Oscar Wilde(writer)
- (42)Tyrone Power(actor)
- (43)Larry Bell(artist)
- (44)David Livingstone(missionary/explorer)
- (45)Johnny Weissmuller(Olympic swimmer/Tarzanactor)
- (46)Stephen Crane(writer) – barely visible between Issy Bonn's head and raised arm
- (47)Issy Bonn(comedian)
- (48)George Bernard Shaw(playwright)
- (49)H. C. Westermann(sculptor)
- (50)Albert Stubbins(English footballer)
- (51) SriLahiri Mahasaya(guru)
- (52)Lewis Carroll(writer)
- (53)T. E. Lawrence("Lawrence of Arabia")
Front row[edit]
- (54) Wax model ofSonny Liston(boxer)
- (55) A "Petty Girl" (by George Petty)
- (56) Wax model ofGeorge Harrison
- (57) Wax model ofJohn Lennon
- (58)Shirley Temple(child actress) – barely visible behind the wax models of John and Ringo, first of three appearances on the cover
- (59) Wax model ofRingo Starr
- (60) Wax model ofPaul McCartney
- (61)Albert Einstein(physicist) – largely obscured
- (62)John Lennonholding aFrench horn
- (63)Ringo Starrholding atrumpet
- (64)Paul McCartneyholding acor anglais
- (65)George Harrisonholding apiccolo
- (65A)Bette Davis(actress) – hair barely visible on top of George's shoulder
- (66)Bobby Breen(singer)
- (67)Marlene Dietrich(actress/singer)
- (68)Mahatma Gandhiwas planned for this position, but was deleted prior to publication
- (69) An American legionnaire[5]
- (70) Wax model ofDiana Dors(actress)
- (71)Shirley Temple(child actress) – second appearance on the cover