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| "With The Beatles" 1963 |
I remember seeing the cover of the Beatles “With the Beatles” as a kid and hating the spacing of the members’ faces. I thought some ad exec had taken cut-out heads of John, Paul, George and Ringo and had laid them on a black background with little to no care or idea how to arrange them in any kind of symmetry, and instead just stuck them all willy-nilly!
John’s head was big, George was OK , Paul was small, and Ringo looked tacked on at the last minute! So uneven, and I remember thinking if I was the one to lay the cut-out heads, I would have placed them like THIS:
See? Oh! So Nice and EVEN! HAHAHAHAHA
LOLOL, what the young me did not realize was that those were NOT cut-out heads of the Beatles, but an actual single PHOTO with the members of the Beatles in black turtleneck shirts posing against a black background, a fact I only discovered when I finally got to see a copy of the original photo in detail:
With it all lighted up properly like this, you can clearly see the silhouettes of the boys' shirts, their arms and shoulders, explaining why their faces were at such uneven positions! NOW it all made sense!! With this detail, I can finally see what a great cover it is, and for one HELL of a GREAT album, besides!!
