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Parodies of Beatles album covers are music to this collector's eyes
Beatles album parody art? He loves it, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah . .
By John Kelly Columnist
john.kelly@washpost.com
http://twitter.com/johnkelly
August 9
“I call these the parents,” said Ken Orth as we stood on the sidewalk in front of Bill’s Music in Catonsville, Md. He pointed to two original Beatles album covers: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road.” ... Arranged all around were the children and grandchildren: nearly 100 album covers and other works of art that inherited the visual DNA of those Beatles records. Here was Plavi Orkestar’s 1985 debut record, “Soldatski Bal,” in which the Bosnian rock band is posed in front of dozens of cutouts, a la “Sgt. Pepper.” There was “Bad Boys,” a Sex Pistols bootleg that shows the punks aping “Sgt. Pepper.”
Nearby was “Baby Road,” a kids album by boogie-woogie pianist Floyd Domino in which four diapered toddlers recreated “Abbey Road.” It’s not to be confused with “Feet on the Ground,” which features a photo of the members of the APO Hiking Society in a crosswalk presumably somewhere in the Philippines, where that band is from.
Ken, a retired Army Corps of Engineers urban planner, has been collecting such parodies/homages since 1982, when he walked into Orpheus Records in Georgetown and saw an album that looked like “Sgt. Pepper” but had a twist: Everyone had their backs turned away from the camera. ... “I thought, ‘This is kind of odd,’ ” Ken said. ... The record turned out to be by a Japanese synth player named Jun Fukamachi. Ken liked the artwork, which conjured associations of his favorite band. Already a collector of Beatles records, he started buying records that looked like Beatles records but weren’t. ... “Pretty soon, before you know it, there’s the beginnings of a collection,” Ken said. ... The collection now numbers close to 2,000 different items, each riffing on a Beatles image: the half-shadowed group shot of “Meet the Beatles,” the Peter Max color of “Yellow Submarine,” the pen-and-ink portraits and tiny cutouts of “Revolver.”
....
Ken is in the middle of writing essays about every original Beatles album cover, including “Revolver,” released 50 years ago this week. He and a Dutch Beatles fan named Piet Schreuders have traced the origins of every tiny photo that’s on the front of that album.
By John Kelly Columnist
john.kelly@washpost.com
http://twitter.com/johnkelly
August 9
“I call these the parents,” said Ken Orth as we stood on the sidewalk in front of Bill’s Music in Catonsville, Md. He pointed to two original Beatles album covers: “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Abbey Road.” ... Arranged all around were the children and grandchildren: nearly 100 album covers and other works of art that inherited the visual DNA of those Beatles records. Here was Plavi Orkestar’s 1985 debut record, “Soldatski Bal,” in which the Bosnian rock band is posed in front of dozens of cutouts, a la “Sgt. Pepper.” There was “Bad Boys,” a Sex Pistols bootleg that shows the punks aping “Sgt. Pepper.”
Nearby was “Baby Road,” a kids album by boogie-woogie pianist Floyd Domino in which four diapered toddlers recreated “Abbey Road.” It’s not to be confused with “Feet on the Ground,” which features a photo of the members of the APO Hiking Society in a crosswalk presumably somewhere in the Philippines, where that band is from.
Ken, a retired Army Corps of Engineers urban planner, has been collecting such parodies/homages since 1982, when he walked into Orpheus Records in Georgetown and saw an album that looked like “Sgt. Pepper” but had a twist: Everyone had their backs turned away from the camera. ... “I thought, ‘This is kind of odd,’ ” Ken said. ... The record turned out to be by a Japanese synth player named Jun Fukamachi. Ken liked the artwork, which conjured associations of his favorite band. Already a collector of Beatles records, he started buying records that looked like Beatles records but weren’t. ... “Pretty soon, before you know it, there’s the beginnings of a collection,” Ken said. ... The collection now numbers close to 2,000 different items, each riffing on a Beatles image: the half-shadowed group shot of “Meet the Beatles,” the Peter Max color of “Yellow Submarine,” the pen-and-ink portraits and tiny cutouts of “Revolver.”
....
Ken is in the middle of writing essays about every original Beatles album cover, including “Revolver,” released 50 years ago this week. He and a Dutch Beatles fan named Piet Schreuders have traced the origins of every tiny photo that’s on the front of that album.
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8/10/2016 11:28 AM EDT
The Purple Clover site published some outtakes from the Abbey Road cover shoot that are fun:
http://www.purpleclover.com/entertainment/769-abbey-road/
(Paul looks alive to me, by the way.)
8/10/2016 11:28 AM EDT
The Purple Clover site published some outtakes from the Abbey Road cover shoot that are fun:
http://www.purpleclover.com/entertainment/769-abbey-road/
(Paul looks alive to me, by the way.)
Why Don't We Do It in the Road - A cool collection of outtakes from the Beatles classic "Abbey Road" cover shoot
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I like this "parody art" best, I think!!!
