Post by Will on Oct 19, 2012 17:09:17 GMT -5
As Ter started with the moon theme, I thought maybe we could have a thread for the Cast of Sgt Pepper and the possible links to each other or to the story of Sgt. Pepper.
I'll edit this post to add the cast in...
(1) Sri Yukteswar Giri -- Was born on May 10th, the same date as Mark David Chapman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukteswar_Giri
(2) Aleister Crowley -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
(3) Mae West -- Mae West, number 3, who famously, when first approached for permission to use her image turned down the Beatles, stating, ‘What would I be doing in a Lonely Hearts Club ?’ , also starred with Ringo Starr and Tony Curtis in the film ‘The Sextette’. Her first Broadway role was on September 22nd, 1911. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West
(4) Lenny Bruce -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce Lenny's final performance was June 25th 1966, the same date as Adrian's birth in Rosemary's Baby. Dick Schaap said in Playboy "One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. At forty. That's obscene."
(5) Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Number 5 is Karl Heinz Stockhausen. Aside from sharing a first name with Karl Marx there are not too many links, however, he was McCartney’s choice and as a contemporary German composer he was noted for his use of electronic sounds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen
It is known that several frantic telegrams were sent to Stockhausen to ensure his participation. This implies that he was integral to the overall look and feel of the project. There have been rumoured
links with his music and experiments to the use of sound or music to trigger mind control programming.
(6) WC Fields -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields William Claude Fields was married for the first time on April 8, 1900
(7) Carl Jung -- The father of Synchronicity, pointing at Through the Looking Glass as one of his favorite passages on the subject. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
(8) Edgar Allen Poe -- Southern also worked with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of the film ‘Dr. Strangelove’. Kubrick, although not on the cover, gets a partial reference via the use of the Timothy Carey character from the Kubrick movie ‘The Killing’. Carey’s visage is obscured by George Harrison in the finished piece. Kubrick was being considered by the Beatles to direct a version of ‘Lord of the Rings’ that they considered making. The Beatles salvaged unused footage from another Kubrick film for the "Flying" segment on the "Magical Mystery Tour" movie. In the book/movie for ‘Dr Strangelove’, the dis-arm code used to diffuse the "bomb" was named "P.O.E.", short for "Peace on Earth" and another link to Edgar Allan Poe (8).
Not only does Edgar Allen Poe appear on the Pepper cover, but he is also mentioned in the song ‘I am the Walrus’. There is even speculation that the inspiration for the song ‘Blackbird’ came from his
epic poem titled ‘The Raven’, and the inclusion of the word ‘Eldorado’ heard on ‘Revolution #9’ from a poem by the same name.
In the poem ‘Eldorado ‘, Poe writes about an elderly knight in search of this idyllic land. There are definite parallels to Bacon and the search for his ‘Atlantis’. Poe secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
(9) Fred Astaire -- Also born on Mark David Chapman's birthday of May 10th. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire
(10) Richard Merkin -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Merkin Richard Merkin almost certainly, if he means anything, would track back to Bulldog Drummond and the great Coca-Cola mystery. www.artsy.net/artwork/richard-merkin-bulldog-drummond-and-the-great-coca-cola-mystery John Lennon references shooting Coca Cola in the same song that he suggests that One and One and One is Three. I'll point out again that Coca Cola is headquartered in Atlanta.
(11) The Varga Girl --
(12) Leo Gorcey -- Dead End Kid/Bowery Boy
(13) Huntz Hall -- Dead End Kid/Bowery Boy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntz_Hall
(14) Simon Rodia -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rodia Creator of the Watts Towers
(15) Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan (15): In July of 1966, Dylan was involved in a very serious motorcycle accident and spent many months in seclusion and shares with McCartney the distinction of being the subject of speculation that he actually died in an accident and was replaced. Dylan had his motorcycle accident the same day as More Popular than Jesus was published in Datebook, July 29th 1966. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
(16) Aubrey Beardsley -- Aubrey Beardsley, number 16, produced illustrations for Oscar Wilde's, number 41, play, ‘Salome’. He also produced illustrations for works of Edgar Allan Poe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
(17) Sir Robert Peel -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel
(18) Aldous Huxley -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley Died on the same day as John F Kennedy.
(19) Dylan Thomas -- Dylan Thomas wrote the radio and stage play ‘Under Milkwood’. The film version of ‘Under Milkwood’ starred Peter O'Toole (who also played T. E. Lawrence, number 53, in the film Lawrence of Arabia) and Victor Spinetti (Sgt Spinetti from ‘Magical Mystery Tour and who also appeared in ‘A Hard Days Night‘ and ‘HELP!’ as well as co-authoring Lennon's ‘In His Own Write’). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas
Dylan Thomas died on November 9th.
(20) Terry Southern -- Terry Southern (number 20) was a friend of Sgt Pepper photographer Michael Cooper and was a Robert Fraser selection for the cover. Southern produced the film ‘The Magic Christian’ which starred Ringo Starr (again) and featured Roman Polanski, Southern also worked on ‘tightening and brightening’ the film ‘Eye of the Devil’ which starred Polanski’s wife and future Manson family victim Sharon Tate.
Southern also worked with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of the film ‘Dr. Strangelove’.
(21) Dion DiMucci -- Stretching the 23 clue to breaking point is number 21, Dion DiMucci who was Peter Blake’s choice. An American teen singing idol, his hits included ‘Runaround Sue’ and ‘The Wanderer’. He originally fronted the Belmonts, who had a major international hit with ‘Teenager In Love’.
On February 3, 1959 (2nd month, 3rd day – told you I was stretching it!) he refused to board the plane which crashed killing musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson.
(22) Tony Curtis -- Tony Curtis (22) and Marilyn Monroe (25) both starred in the film ‘Some like it hot’. In 1967 Curtis appeared in the movie ‘Don’t make waves’ which also starred Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski’s ill- fated wife. Curtis also provided the voice of Donald Baumgart in Polanski’s tale of Satanic Babalon working, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.
Incidentally the art director on the film ‘Some like it hot’ was Sgt Pepper artist Jann Haworth’s father Ted. Ted Haworth also worked with Marlon Brando on the film ‘Sayonara’ and Brando starred with a hidden Pepper luminary, Sophia Loren on the 1967 film ‘A Countess from Hong Kong’. Marlon Brando starred in ‘Candy’ based on a Terry Southern novel and which also featured both Ringo Starr and Anita Pallenberg.
(23) Wallace Berman -- According to the official key of Sgt Pepper characters the number 23 is the artist Wallace Berman. Berman, as we have already seen, can be linked to Robert Fraser, Kenneth Anger and OTO key man Jack Parsons wife Marjorie Cameron.
(24) Tommy Handley -- Number 24, Tommy Handley was a Liverpool comedian who died in 1949. He became famous for his long-running radio series ‘I.T.M.A. (It’s That Man Again)’ in which he replaced Adolf Hitler as “That Man”.
(25) Marilyn Monroe -- Tony Curtis (22) and Marilyn Monroe (25) both starred in the film ‘Some like it hot’.
(26) William Burroughs -- Meanwhile, returning to Terry Southern, he is partially responsible for the fame of William Burroughs, (26). It was Southern who helped convince Maurice Girodias to publish the then- unknown Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
William Burroughs, who was a friend and collaborator of Paul McCartney’s, was famous for his cut-up technique of writing where he would chop up passages of text and randomly re-arrange them. This was a technique that McCartney would also borrow.
Indeed, Burroughs’ 1965 LP ‘Call Me Burroughs’ was a huge influence at the time. Barry Miles, in his liner notes for the 1995 Rhino rerelease, says, "The Beatles may have been the soundtrack to 1965 for the beautiful people of swinging London, but to the cognoscenti there was something even cooler to listen to."
Miles continues: "It's in all the best homes, my dear," said Brion Gysin, and he was right. At the height of the '60s, Call Me Burroughs was an essential record. The Beatles all had copies (Paul McCartney included Bill on the sleeve of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Art dealer Robert Fraser bought ten copies to give to friends such as Brian Jones and Mick Jagger. Marianne Faithful and Keith Richards' dealer had copies, as did numerous painters and writers.
McCartney, in particular was a fan, he was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to set-up a studio and act as tape operator for him in an apartment Ringo Starr owned, but was not using, at 34 Montagu Place. Sommerville ended up living in the apartment, and subsequent tape experiments were conducted there by Burroughs. McCartney was said to have found all of this very interesting and relevant to his own recordings
Burroughs also discovered the ’23 Enigma’ linking all manner of events, dates and incidents that involved the number 23. In the Beatles film ‘Yellow Submarine’, The Butterfly Stomper, who destroys all things of beauty, wears a shirt with the number 23.
Shakespeare died on April 23 and his wife Anne later died in 1623. Two 23's equals 46 and, that's how old Shakespeare was when the King James Version was published. Grab a copy of the King James Version of the Bible and turn to Psalm 46. Count 46 words and you arrive at the word 'shake'. Turn to the end of the chapter and count 46 words backwards and the word you end on is 'spear'. This is another clue as to the real author of Shakespeare.
(27) Sri Mahavatara Babaji --
(28) Stan Laurel -- Oliver Hardy (30) and Stan Laurel (28) were partners in comedy but early in his career Stan Laurel would double for Charlie Chaplin in Fred Karno’s troupe.
(29) Richard Lindler -- Richard Lindner (29): In 1941 he went to the United States and worked in New York City as an illustrator of books and magazines and made contact with German emigrants Albert Einstein (61) and Marlene Dietrich (67). His art would be an inspiration for Yellow Submarine.
He would later teach at Yale University, home to the Skull and Bones - the notorious undergraduate senior secret society. New members of Skull and Bones are assigned secret names, by which fellow Bonesmen will forever know them.
The skull and bones symbol relates to the skull ceremonies of the Knights Templar who were believed to have worshipped the severed head of St John the Baptist known as the Baphomet. Often mistaken for Satan, it represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day and is signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other, similar to the semaphore signal being given by Ringo on the cover of the Help LP and the Magician card in the Tarot deck.
(30) Oliver Hardy -- Oliver Hardy (30) and Stan Laurel (28) were partners in comedy but early in his career Stan Laurel would double for Charlie Chaplin in Fred Karno’s troupe.
(31) Karl Marx --
(32) HG Wells --
(33) Sri Paramahansa Yagananda --
(34) Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy) --
(35) Stuart Sutcliffe --
(36) Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy) --
(37) Max Miller --
(38) The Petty Girl --
(39) Marlon Brando --
(40) Tom Mix --
(41) Oscar Wilde -- Aubrey Beardsley, number 16, produced illustrations for Oscar Wilde's, number 41, play, ‘Salome’.
(42) Tyrone Power --
(43) Larry Bell --
(44) Dr. David Livingstone --
(45) Johnny Weismuller --
(46) Steven Crane --
(47) Issy Bonn -- “To every problem there is a solution. If there is no solution, then it’s a fact of life and you have to live with it.” Issy Bonn courtesy of Apollo C Vermouth
(48) George Bernard Shaw --
(49) HC Westermann --
(50) Albert Stubbins --
(51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya --
(52) Lewis Carroll --
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
Indeed, going beyond Sgt Pepper there is a connection with Lewis Carroll and McCartney's song, "Hey Jude."
In the "Through the Looking Glass" books, it seems that the White Queen has a habit that when she says the word "better," she repeats it over and over again, each time getting more high pitched and louder until it ends in a squeal. At which time she completely transforms herself into a "new creature" or a new location. McCartney repeats this lyrical trick within the song.
(54) Sonny Liston --
There are numerous mannequins on display on the record cover – two hairdressing dummies, Beatles waxworks, Sonny Liston and Diana Dors to name but some – and this may imply a link to Project Mannequin. Project Mannequin is rumoured to be a Tavistock Institute funded programme that seeks to use mind control techniques to manipulate people into committing acts beyond their control. Similar in many ways to the film ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
(53) TE Lawrence --
(54) Sonny Liston --
(55) The Petty Girl --
(56) Wax Model of George Harrison --
(57) Wax Model of John Lennon --
(58) Shirley Temple --
(59) Wax Model of Ringo Starr --
(60) Wax Model of Paul McCartney --
(61) Albert Einstein --
(62) John Lennon --
(63) Ringo Starr --
(64) Paul McCartney --
(65) George Harrison --
(66) Bobby Breen --
(67) Marlene Dietrich -- Here's one,
Marlene Dietrich is positioned beside the obscured legionnaire on the cover.
Marlene, on August 1, 1936, appears on the Lux Radio Theater program entitled: The Legionnaire and the Lady
(68) Mohandas Ghandi --
(69) Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffaloes -- The Legionnaire is the real enigma. As we have previously discussed the original, unedited, shots appear to show him wearing an apron which would be a masonic link. The RAOB are a quasi masonic organisation and I have discovered that John Lennon's uncle charlie was in the RAOB.
The character they chose to depict this is also odd as he has the well known and discussed resemblance to Crowley, but appears to be wearing a fez type hat which could be indicative of the shriners, another quasi masonic organisation.
In the Sgt Pepper Code I talk about the possible connections between the Legionnaire character and it being a nod to the author Ignatius L Donnelly. In 1882, Donnelly published ‘Atlantis: The Antediluvian World’, his best known work. It details theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Donnelly suggested that Atlantis had been destroyed during the same event remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood.
The legionnaire character being a member of Royal Antideluvian Order of the Buffaloes.
Donnelly was also a great believer in the theory that Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of the works of Shakespeare and in 1888 he published ‘The Great Cryptogram’ in support of this belief.
Consider now where they have chosen to position the legionnaire character; directly behind the Shirley Temple and Diana Dors images.
I then talk about this being a blatant clue saying that the answers lie behind the Temple doors. The term Masonic Temple originates in Masonic ritual and tradition. Masonic tradition, as expressed through the fraternity's ritual, holds that the first Masonic Lodge was formed at the building of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
I am now wondering if we can possibly extend this thought further. There are three Shirley Temple characters listed as being present on the album cover. One is seated on the lap of the ‘Grandmother figure’ designed by Jann Haworth. The Shirley Temple doll seated on her lap, therefore is the original, or first, Temple of Solomon.
The Legionnaire character, placed as he is behind the second Shirley Temple and with his clearly Masonic influences, could easily be construed as a ‘Brethren Mason’, another name for the Knights Templar. The aim of the Templars was to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, thus making them the builders of the second Temple, and the Legionnaire, therefore, a symbolic reference to the Knights Templar.
To bring this full circle, Francis Bacon’s book New Atlantis features a fictional institution called Salomon's House (i.e., Solomon's House) that is a seat for the collection of all knowledge and led directly to the formation in 1660 of the Royal Society as a device to collate knowledge. The book which was published in English in 1627, the year after Bacon's death is a portrayal of a fictional land based on the foundation of knowledge and wisdom. It is largely seen as a blueprint for the foundation of the United States of America under Masonic principles.
The third and final Shirley Temple depiction on the cover appears on the opposite, or west side, of the cover. She is largely obscured by the waxwork Beatles. Could this be a reference to the secretive goings-on of Scottish Rite Freemasonry which is largely based in the U.S. and as such could be a symbolic reference to the hidden activities of the illuminati? Could this also be why the Legionnaire is referred to as an American Legionnaire on the c.d. cover?
(70) Diana Dors --
There are numerous mannequins on display on the record cover – two hairdressing dummies, Beatles waxworks, Sonny Liston and Diana Dors to name but some – and this may imply a link to Project Mannequin. Project Mannequin is rumoured to be a Tavistock Institute funded programme that seeks to use mind control techniques to manipulate people into committing acts beyond their control. Similar in many ways to the film ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
Also part of the Temple Dors (Doors) which the Legionnaire is hiding behind.
(71) Shirley Temple --
(72) Cloth Grandmother Figure by Jann Haworth --
(73) Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth --
(74) Mexican Candlestick --
(75) Television Set --
(76) Stone Figure of Girl --
(77) Stone Figure --
(78) Statue from John Lennon's House --
(79) Trophy
(80) Four Armed Indian Doll --
(81) Drumskin designed by Joe Ephgrave --
(82) Hookah --
(83) Velvet Snake --
(84) Japanese Stone Figure --
(85) Stone Figure of Snow White --
(86) Garden Gnome --
(87) Tuba --
I'll edit this post to add the cast in...
(1) Sri Yukteswar Giri -- Was born on May 10th, the same date as Mark David Chapman. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukteswar_Giri
(2) Aleister Crowley -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleister_Crowley
(3) Mae West -- Mae West, number 3, who famously, when first approached for permission to use her image turned down the Beatles, stating, ‘What would I be doing in a Lonely Hearts Club ?’ , also starred with Ringo Starr and Tony Curtis in the film ‘The Sextette’. Her first Broadway role was on September 22nd, 1911. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mae_West
(4) Lenny Bruce -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenny_Bruce Lenny's final performance was June 25th 1966, the same date as Adrian's birth in Rosemary's Baby. Dick Schaap said in Playboy "One last four-letter word for Lenny: Dead. At forty. That's obscene."
(5) Karlheinz Stockhausen -- Number 5 is Karl Heinz Stockhausen. Aside from sharing a first name with Karl Marx there are not too many links, however, he was McCartney’s choice and as a contemporary German composer he was noted for his use of electronic sounds. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlheinz_Stockhausen
It is known that several frantic telegrams were sent to Stockhausen to ensure his participation. This implies that he was integral to the overall look and feel of the project. There have been rumoured
links with his music and experiments to the use of sound or music to trigger mind control programming.
(6) WC Fields -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields William Claude Fields was married for the first time on April 8, 1900
(7) Carl Jung -- The father of Synchronicity, pointing at Through the Looking Glass as one of his favorite passages on the subject. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung
(8) Edgar Allen Poe -- Southern also worked with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of the film ‘Dr. Strangelove’. Kubrick, although not on the cover, gets a partial reference via the use of the Timothy Carey character from the Kubrick movie ‘The Killing’. Carey’s visage is obscured by George Harrison in the finished piece. Kubrick was being considered by the Beatles to direct a version of ‘Lord of the Rings’ that they considered making. The Beatles salvaged unused footage from another Kubrick film for the "Flying" segment on the "Magical Mystery Tour" movie. In the book/movie for ‘Dr Strangelove’, the dis-arm code used to diffuse the "bomb" was named "P.O.E.", short for "Peace on Earth" and another link to Edgar Allan Poe (8).
Not only does Edgar Allen Poe appear on the Pepper cover, but he is also mentioned in the song ‘I am the Walrus’. There is even speculation that the inspiration for the song ‘Blackbird’ came from his
epic poem titled ‘The Raven’, and the inclusion of the word ‘Eldorado’ heard on ‘Revolution #9’ from a poem by the same name.
In the poem ‘Eldorado ‘, Poe writes about an elderly knight in search of this idyllic land. There are definite parallels to Bacon and the search for his ‘Atlantis’. Poe secretly married Virginia, his cousin, on September 22, 1835. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe
(9) Fred Astaire -- Also born on Mark David Chapman's birthday of May 10th. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire
(10) Richard Merkin -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Merkin Richard Merkin almost certainly, if he means anything, would track back to Bulldog Drummond and the great Coca-Cola mystery. www.artsy.net/artwork/richard-merkin-bulldog-drummond-and-the-great-coca-cola-mystery John Lennon references shooting Coca Cola in the same song that he suggests that One and One and One is Three. I'll point out again that Coca Cola is headquartered in Atlanta.
(11) The Varga Girl --
(12) Leo Gorcey -- Dead End Kid/Bowery Boy
(13) Huntz Hall -- Dead End Kid/Bowery Boy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntz_Hall
(14) Simon Rodia -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Rodia Creator of the Watts Towers
(15) Bob Dylan -- Bob Dylan (15): In July of 1966, Dylan was involved in a very serious motorcycle accident and spent many months in seclusion and shares with McCartney the distinction of being the subject of speculation that he actually died in an accident and was replaced. Dylan had his motorcycle accident the same day as More Popular than Jesus was published in Datebook, July 29th 1966. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Dylan
(16) Aubrey Beardsley -- Aubrey Beardsley, number 16, produced illustrations for Oscar Wilde's, number 41, play, ‘Salome’. He also produced illustrations for works of Edgar Allan Poe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_Beardsley
(17) Sir Robert Peel -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peel
(18) Aldous Huxley -- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldous_Huxley Died on the same day as John F Kennedy.
(19) Dylan Thomas -- Dylan Thomas wrote the radio and stage play ‘Under Milkwood’. The film version of ‘Under Milkwood’ starred Peter O'Toole (who also played T. E. Lawrence, number 53, in the film Lawrence of Arabia) and Victor Spinetti (Sgt Spinetti from ‘Magical Mystery Tour and who also appeared in ‘A Hard Days Night‘ and ‘HELP!’ as well as co-authoring Lennon's ‘In His Own Write’). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Thomas
Dylan Thomas died on November 9th.
(20) Terry Southern -- Terry Southern (number 20) was a friend of Sgt Pepper photographer Michael Cooper and was a Robert Fraser selection for the cover. Southern produced the film ‘The Magic Christian’ which starred Ringo Starr (again) and featured Roman Polanski, Southern also worked on ‘tightening and brightening’ the film ‘Eye of the Devil’ which starred Polanski’s wife and future Manson family victim Sharon Tate.
Southern also worked with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of the film ‘Dr. Strangelove’.
(21) Dion DiMucci -- Stretching the 23 clue to breaking point is number 21, Dion DiMucci who was Peter Blake’s choice. An American teen singing idol, his hits included ‘Runaround Sue’ and ‘The Wanderer’. He originally fronted the Belmonts, who had a major international hit with ‘Teenager In Love’.
On February 3, 1959 (2nd month, 3rd day – told you I was stretching it!) he refused to board the plane which crashed killing musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. Richardson.
(22) Tony Curtis -- Tony Curtis (22) and Marilyn Monroe (25) both starred in the film ‘Some like it hot’. In 1967 Curtis appeared in the movie ‘Don’t make waves’ which also starred Sharon Tate, Roman Polanski’s ill- fated wife. Curtis also provided the voice of Donald Baumgart in Polanski’s tale of Satanic Babalon working, ‘Rosemary’s Baby’.
Incidentally the art director on the film ‘Some like it hot’ was Sgt Pepper artist Jann Haworth’s father Ted. Ted Haworth also worked with Marlon Brando on the film ‘Sayonara’ and Brando starred with a hidden Pepper luminary, Sophia Loren on the 1967 film ‘A Countess from Hong Kong’. Marlon Brando starred in ‘Candy’ based on a Terry Southern novel and which also featured both Ringo Starr and Anita Pallenberg.
(23) Wallace Berman -- According to the official key of Sgt Pepper characters the number 23 is the artist Wallace Berman. Berman, as we have already seen, can be linked to Robert Fraser, Kenneth Anger and OTO key man Jack Parsons wife Marjorie Cameron.
(24) Tommy Handley -- Number 24, Tommy Handley was a Liverpool comedian who died in 1949. He became famous for his long-running radio series ‘I.T.M.A. (It’s That Man Again)’ in which he replaced Adolf Hitler as “That Man”.
(25) Marilyn Monroe -- Tony Curtis (22) and Marilyn Monroe (25) both starred in the film ‘Some like it hot’.
(26) William Burroughs -- Meanwhile, returning to Terry Southern, he is partially responsible for the fame of William Burroughs, (26). It was Southern who helped convince Maurice Girodias to publish the then- unknown Burroughs' Naked Lunch.
William Burroughs, who was a friend and collaborator of Paul McCartney’s, was famous for his cut-up technique of writing where he would chop up passages of text and randomly re-arrange them. This was a technique that McCartney would also borrow.
Indeed, Burroughs’ 1965 LP ‘Call Me Burroughs’ was a huge influence at the time. Barry Miles, in his liner notes for the 1995 Rhino rerelease, says, "The Beatles may have been the soundtrack to 1965 for the beautiful people of swinging London, but to the cognoscenti there was something even cooler to listen to."
Miles continues: "It's in all the best homes, my dear," said Brion Gysin, and he was right. At the height of the '60s, Call Me Burroughs was an essential record. The Beatles all had copies (Paul McCartney included Bill on the sleeve of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Art dealer Robert Fraser bought ten copies to give to friends such as Brian Jones and Mick Jagger. Marianne Faithful and Keith Richards' dealer had copies, as did numerous painters and writers.
McCartney, in particular was a fan, he was so impressed by the album that he hired the producer, Ian Sommerville, to set-up a studio and act as tape operator for him in an apartment Ringo Starr owned, but was not using, at 34 Montagu Place. Sommerville ended up living in the apartment, and subsequent tape experiments were conducted there by Burroughs. McCartney was said to have found all of this very interesting and relevant to his own recordings
Burroughs also discovered the ’23 Enigma’ linking all manner of events, dates and incidents that involved the number 23. In the Beatles film ‘Yellow Submarine’, The Butterfly Stomper, who destroys all things of beauty, wears a shirt with the number 23.
Shakespeare died on April 23 and his wife Anne later died in 1623. Two 23's equals 46 and, that's how old Shakespeare was when the King James Version was published. Grab a copy of the King James Version of the Bible and turn to Psalm 46. Count 46 words and you arrive at the word 'shake'. Turn to the end of the chapter and count 46 words backwards and the word you end on is 'spear'. This is another clue as to the real author of Shakespeare.
(27) Sri Mahavatara Babaji --
(28) Stan Laurel -- Oliver Hardy (30) and Stan Laurel (28) were partners in comedy but early in his career Stan Laurel would double for Charlie Chaplin in Fred Karno’s troupe.
(29) Richard Lindler -- Richard Lindner (29): In 1941 he went to the United States and worked in New York City as an illustrator of books and magazines and made contact with German emigrants Albert Einstein (61) and Marlene Dietrich (67). His art would be an inspiration for Yellow Submarine.
He would later teach at Yale University, home to the Skull and Bones - the notorious undergraduate senior secret society. New members of Skull and Bones are assigned secret names, by which fellow Bonesmen will forever know them.
The skull and bones symbol relates to the skull ceremonies of the Knights Templar who were believed to have worshipped the severed head of St John the Baptist known as the Baphomet. Often mistaken for Satan, it represents the duality of male and female, as well as Heaven and Hell or night and day and is signified by the raising of one arm and the downward gesture of the other, similar to the semaphore signal being given by Ringo on the cover of the Help LP and the Magician card in the Tarot deck.
(30) Oliver Hardy -- Oliver Hardy (30) and Stan Laurel (28) were partners in comedy but early in his career Stan Laurel would double for Charlie Chaplin in Fred Karno’s troupe.
(31) Karl Marx --
(32) HG Wells --
(33) Sri Paramahansa Yagananda --
(34) Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy) --
(35) Stuart Sutcliffe --
(36) Anonymous (wax hairdresser's dummy) --
(37) Max Miller --
(38) The Petty Girl --
(39) Marlon Brando --
(40) Tom Mix --
(41) Oscar Wilde -- Aubrey Beardsley, number 16, produced illustrations for Oscar Wilde's, number 41, play, ‘Salome’.
(42) Tyrone Power --
(43) Larry Bell --
(44) Dr. David Livingstone --
(45) Johnny Weismuller --
(46) Steven Crane --
(47) Issy Bonn -- “To every problem there is a solution. If there is no solution, then it’s a fact of life and you have to live with it.” Issy Bonn courtesy of Apollo C Vermouth
(48) George Bernard Shaw --
(49) HC Westermann --
(50) Albert Stubbins --
(51) Sri Lahiri Mahasaya --
(52) Lewis Carroll --
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
Indeed, going beyond Sgt Pepper there is a connection with Lewis Carroll and McCartney's song, "Hey Jude."
In the "Through the Looking Glass" books, it seems that the White Queen has a habit that when she says the word "better," she repeats it over and over again, each time getting more high pitched and louder until it ends in a squeal. At which time she completely transforms herself into a "new creature" or a new location. McCartney repeats this lyrical trick within the song.
(54) Sonny Liston --
There are numerous mannequins on display on the record cover – two hairdressing dummies, Beatles waxworks, Sonny Liston and Diana Dors to name but some – and this may imply a link to Project Mannequin. Project Mannequin is rumoured to be a Tavistock Institute funded programme that seeks to use mind control techniques to manipulate people into committing acts beyond their control. Similar in many ways to the film ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
(53) TE Lawrence --
(54) Sonny Liston --
(55) The Petty Girl --
(56) Wax Model of George Harrison --
(57) Wax Model of John Lennon --
(58) Shirley Temple --
(59) Wax Model of Ringo Starr --
(60) Wax Model of Paul McCartney --
(61) Albert Einstein --
(62) John Lennon --
(63) Ringo Starr --
(64) Paul McCartney --
(65) George Harrison --
(66) Bobby Breen --
(67) Marlene Dietrich -- Here's one,
Marlene Dietrich is positioned beside the obscured legionnaire on the cover.
Marlene, on August 1, 1936, appears on the Lux Radio Theater program entitled: The Legionnaire and the Lady
(68) Mohandas Ghandi --
(69) Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffaloes -- The Legionnaire is the real enigma. As we have previously discussed the original, unedited, shots appear to show him wearing an apron which would be a masonic link. The RAOB are a quasi masonic organisation and I have discovered that John Lennon's uncle charlie was in the RAOB.
The character they chose to depict this is also odd as he has the well known and discussed resemblance to Crowley, but appears to be wearing a fez type hat which could be indicative of the shriners, another quasi masonic organisation.
In the Sgt Pepper Code I talk about the possible connections between the Legionnaire character and it being a nod to the author Ignatius L Donnelly. In 1882, Donnelly published ‘Atlantis: The Antediluvian World’, his best known work. It details theories concerning the mythical lost continent of Atlantis. Donnelly suggested that Atlantis had been destroyed during the same event remembered in the Bible as the Great Flood.
The legionnaire character being a member of Royal Antideluvian Order of the Buffaloes.
Donnelly was also a great believer in the theory that Sir Francis Bacon was the true author of the works of Shakespeare and in 1888 he published ‘The Great Cryptogram’ in support of this belief.
Consider now where they have chosen to position the legionnaire character; directly behind the Shirley Temple and Diana Dors images.
I then talk about this being a blatant clue saying that the answers lie behind the Temple doors. The term Masonic Temple originates in Masonic ritual and tradition. Masonic tradition, as expressed through the fraternity's ritual, holds that the first Masonic Lodge was formed at the building of King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem.
I am now wondering if we can possibly extend this thought further. There are three Shirley Temple characters listed as being present on the album cover. One is seated on the lap of the ‘Grandmother figure’ designed by Jann Haworth. The Shirley Temple doll seated on her lap, therefore is the original, or first, Temple of Solomon.
The Legionnaire character, placed as he is behind the second Shirley Temple and with his clearly Masonic influences, could easily be construed as a ‘Brethren Mason’, another name for the Knights Templar. The aim of the Templars was to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, thus making them the builders of the second Temple, and the Legionnaire, therefore, a symbolic reference to the Knights Templar.
To bring this full circle, Francis Bacon’s book New Atlantis features a fictional institution called Salomon's House (i.e., Solomon's House) that is a seat for the collection of all knowledge and led directly to the formation in 1660 of the Royal Society as a device to collate knowledge. The book which was published in English in 1627, the year after Bacon's death is a portrayal of a fictional land based on the foundation of knowledge and wisdom. It is largely seen as a blueprint for the foundation of the United States of America under Masonic principles.
The third and final Shirley Temple depiction on the cover appears on the opposite, or west side, of the cover. She is largely obscured by the waxwork Beatles. Could this be a reference to the secretive goings-on of Scottish Rite Freemasonry which is largely based in the U.S. and as such could be a symbolic reference to the hidden activities of the illuminati? Could this also be why the Legionnaire is referred to as an American Legionnaire on the c.d. cover?
(70) Diana Dors --
There are numerous mannequins on display on the record cover – two hairdressing dummies, Beatles waxworks, Sonny Liston and Diana Dors to name but some – and this may imply a link to Project Mannequin. Project Mannequin is rumoured to be a Tavistock Institute funded programme that seeks to use mind control techniques to manipulate people into committing acts beyond their control. Similar in many ways to the film ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
Project Mannequin is also rumoured to have access to alien technology that allows a viewer to see into the future using ‘Looking Glass’ technology. There are many and numerous ‘Alice in Wonderland‘ and Lewis Carroll references in the Beatles canon; could these be looking glass ties?
Also part of the Temple Dors (Doors) which the Legionnaire is hiding behind.
(71) Shirley Temple --
(72) Cloth Grandmother Figure by Jann Haworth --
(73) Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth --
(74) Mexican Candlestick --
(75) Television Set --
(76) Stone Figure of Girl --
(77) Stone Figure --
(78) Statue from John Lennon's House --
(79) Trophy
(80) Four Armed Indian Doll --
(81) Drumskin designed by Joe Ephgrave --
(82) Hookah --
(83) Velvet Snake --
(84) Japanese Stone Figure --
(85) Stone Figure of Snow White --
(86) Garden Gnome --
(87) Tuba --
