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Originally posted by Bones
is there any significance of the alarm clock going off "a day in the life" between the slow parts and the fast part?
what are some artists that parodied the sgt. peppers album cover
was anyone left out of the sgt. pepper album cover
whats up with this record i have of the beatles in butcher costumes and baby dolls?
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I may be missing the "significance" of the alarm clock, but I always thought it had a dual meaning. First, to signify the "waking up" portion of Paul's middle verse, and secondly, to signify that Paul was "killed" early in the morning.
The only Sgt. Pepper cover parody of which I am aware/own is Frank Zappa, but I'd love to learn about any others.
Several people were airbrushed out of the final release of Sgt. Pepper due to EMI's nervous feelings about the appropriateness of some of the characters. I think John's entire list was excluded (Jesus, Hitler, and Ghandi), although Ghandi was included in the photo shoot and airbrushed out later. Also, there was an actor who demanded a fee for his likeness and he was airbrushed out, too (can't recall his name).
There are two schools of thought about the Butcher Baby cover. One direction says that the Beatles created the cover as an editorial comment about how the American subsidiary Capitol Records was treating their music like meat on an assembly line. It was an album only released in America, by the way. The other direction says that it contains several early clues to Paul's gruesome death in a fiery and decapitating car crash. Either way, the cover was redressed immediately prior to release, although many copies simply had the new cover glued atop the old. The original Butcher Baby covers are some of the most valuable Beatles memorabilia out there (I've only seen one copy in my life).