Anonymous ID: a0f1eb March 25, 2020, 12:14 p.m. No.8561892   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>1949 >>2041

>>8561813

March 25, 1966

George Harrison was later quoted as saying that he thought,

“the whole idea was gross, and I also thought it was stupid. Sometimes we all did stupid things thinking it was cool and hip when it was naïve and dumb; and that was one of them.”

 

http://www.feelnumb.com/2012/03/23/the-beatles-infamous-butcher-cover-photo-session-and-alternate-shots/

Anonymous ID: a0f1eb March 25, 2020, 12:20 p.m. No.8561949   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2041

>>8561892

 

In early 1966, photographer Robert Whitaker had the Beatles in the studio for a conceptual art piece entitled A Somnambulant Adventure. For the shoot, Whitaker took a series of pictures of the group dressed in butcher smocks and draped with pieces of meat and body parts from plastic baby dolls. The group played along as they were tired of the usual photo shoots—Lennon recalled the band having "boredom and resentment at having to do another photo session and another Beatles thing" — and the concept was compatible with their own black humour. Although not originally intended as an album cover, the Beatles submitted photographs from the session for their promotional materials. According to a 2002 interview published in Mojo magazine, former Capitol president Alan W. Livingston stated that it was Paul McCartney who pushed strongly for the photo's inclusion as the album cover, and that McCartney reportedly described it as "our comment on the [Vietnam] war". A photograph of the band smiling amid the mock carnage was used as promotional advertisements for the British release of the "Paperback Writer" single. Also, a similar photograph from this shoot was used for the cover of the 11 June 1966 edition of the British music magazine Disc…

https://aboutthebeatles.com/butcher-cover-photos

 

The Official Robert Whitaker Photography Website

 

Robert Whitaker, born in Britain in 1939, passed away in 2011. Robert described himself as “one part Aussie lad” since his father and his grandfather were both Australian.

 

Although he has worked mostly in Britain, Australia and Australian connections have been a major influence on his work and career. Robert began work in London as a photographer in the late ‘Fifties but he moved to Melbourne in 1961 where he began studying at the University of Melbourne and became part of the small but flourishing Melbourne arts scene. Robert was running a freelance penthouse photo studio in Flinders Street, Melbourne when he had his fateful meeting with The Beatles and their manager Brian Epstein, during their 1964 Australian tour.

 

His meeting came about more or less by accident, when he accompanied a journalist friend to an interview with Brian Epstein for an article for the Jewish News. The picture was published with the article, which led to his meeting with Epstein and his first shots of the Beatles, pictures of Paul McCartney and George Harrison each holding up boomerangs presented to them by their Australian fans.

 

Robert Whitaker: “I photographed Epstein, saw he was a bit of a peacock and a cavalier, and put peacock feathers around his head in photographic relief. He was knocked out when he saw the picture.

Anonymous ID: a0f1eb March 25, 2020, 12:43 p.m. No.8562200   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2210 >>2271

Hours after announcing the first person under 18 to die from complications of coronavirus, California health officials are backtracking, saying the 17-year-old from Los Angeles County could have died from something else.

 

California health officials said the teen was from Lancaster, California, about 70 miles north of Los Angeles.

 

“Tragically, one of the people who died was a person under the age of 18,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer said during a news briefing on Tuesday live streamed on Facebook. “A devastating reminder that COVID-19 infects people of all ages.”​

 

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/coronavirus/article241478371.html#storylink=cpy

Anonymous ID: a0f1eb March 25, 2020, 12:45 p.m. No.8562232   🗄️.is 🔗kun

TIL Hospital staffs act weird when you ask about their non-existent Corona virus patients.

I got 2 Nos and one transfer to a recording with no info.

N. CA