Beatles' Greatest Album Cover?

[NowhereMan]

Your favourite album cover?

[NowhereMan]

For me, my favourite is Rubber Soul, with revolver a very close second - very cool.

[girl]

Hey they are all good covers, that's the first thing that stands out on a beatles record, the cover was so good! i do like red/blue album covers, they show the beatles growing up.

[NowhereMan]

Not sure about the help! album cover

I can see how George signifies H
How Paul is L
How Ringo is P
But not how John is E

[Dr Winston]

The Beatles were trying to spell out Help in flag semaphore. Here is a little article about it:

The album cover features the group with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."

On the British Parlophone release, the letters formed by The Beatles appear to be 'NUJV', whilst the slightly re-arranged U.S. release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the letters 'NVUJ'.

[NowhereMan]

Oct 29, 2008 22:28:04 GMT 1 Dr Winston said:

The Beatles were trying to spell out Help in flag semaphore. Here is a little article about it:

The album cover features the group with their arms positioned to spell out a word in flag semaphore. According to cover photographer Robert Freeman, "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."

On the British Parlophone release, the letters formed by The Beatles appear to be 'NUJV', whilst the slightly re-arranged U.S. release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the letters 'NVUJ'.

AHA!
So i was completely wrong, thanks for the link winston

[Dr Winston]

You're welcome.

[NowhereMan]

Not so keen on MMT'S cover

[NowhereMan]

with the beatles cover - 'One of the most copied designs of the decade'

[**PepperMan**]

Please please me and the original Get Back album covers were the same location at EMI studios in London.

[NowhereMan]

they were indeed i lvoe the comparison of their image