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Post by beatled on Apr 2, 2005 23:13:22 GMT
Ringo put out an album in 1976 called "Rotogravure" and on the back cover there was a a picture of a graffiti covered entrance to Abbey Road Studios. Supposedly the original vinyl came with a magnifying glass to help you read the writing. Well, they didn't have scanners in those days.. Found this in a local used record store, almost gave up, but they had this filed under the "R's" instead of the "S's". Sheesh! Pretty fair shape, although it has a cutout punch and a little masking tape in the lower left hand corner. Apollo C. Vermouth once mysteriously said "find one clue, it's all you need." I don't know of course, but it should be a fun easter egg hunt. A small version below, and a link to a very large full size 300DPI jpeg. I also made an inverted (like a negative) version, makes some of the darker writing easier to see. (again be warned, about 2MB each) Have fun! http://*banned link*/Shoebox/Rotogravure/RotogravureSmall.jpg[/img] http://*banned link*/Shoebox/Rotogravure/Rotogravurebig2.jpg http://*banned link*/Shoebox/Rotogravure/RotogravureBigInverted.jpg
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Post by plastic paul on Apr 3, 2005 2:56:58 GMT
Nice one JoJo, good luck, looks like a tough task!
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 18, 2005 4:41:02 GMT
I found some curious things.. Greatest Alfie and Copeland tacked on Jimmie and Copeland tacked on John with Jo smudged Bad under John(Jo)
Speculation... What if Alfie = Jimmy = James Paul? I wonder if Johnny Hallyday was JoJo from Get Back? (Mentioned 3 times on the door) and if Loretta Martin was Fylvie?
Whaddya think Jojo, I mean Johnny!? ;D Did you find anything of note?
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Post by BeatlePaul on Apr 18, 2005 7:56:41 GMT
I found some curious things.. Greatest Alfie and Copeland tacked on Jimmie and Copeland tacked on John with Jo smudged Bad under John(Jo) Speculation... What if Alfie = Jimmy = James Paul? I wonder if Johnny Hallyday was JoJo from Get Back? (Mentioned 3 times on the door) and if Loretta Martin was Fylvie? Whaddya think Jojo, I mean Johnny!? ;D Did you find anything of note? WOW!
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Post by beatled on Apr 18, 2005 20:13:58 GMT
Whaddya think Jojo, I mean Johnny!? ;D Did you find anything of note? Heh, I think I knew someone better at this than me would find something, that's why I posted it. Great stuff Dezomb, as always! P.S. I chose JoJo as a screen name because I'm just an ordinary "Joe". (with a very unusual hobby, lol)
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 19, 2005 5:38:24 GMT
Thanks BP, JoJo. It certainly is an unusual but oddly compelling hobby In addition, above those words are.. NICE + CHeq ? Written at the same angle as Alfie etc. Come Together is mentioned two times with Get Together as well. ( Athenais at Rev 9 makes a case for linking Come Together with Brian Epstein ) More speculation Someone (Brian?) took a cheque/money to Nice, France for JPM's release fom (Bad) Jo-hnny Hallydays containment. Maybe?
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Post by peoplescommittee on Apr 21, 2005 20:41:03 GMT
This has been mentioned already. Notice the 3 on the right hand side beside the door? It's an entrance to 3 Savile Row, not Abbey Road. 3 SAVILE ROW! GET IT RIGHT! yeesh!
(sorry, had to vent)
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 22, 2005 4:12:06 GMT
Thanks for the tip .
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Post by Moped on Apr 23, 2005 15:19:44 GMT
DZ, you have some very perceptive eyes. That door's just a blur of letters to me.
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 23, 2005 22:06:20 GMT
Thanks Moped, Given your excellent posts, I appreciate the compliment! JoJo's big scans helped a lot though. JoJo's file collection is an essential resource for these forums. The Alfie / JPM connection seems quite important . Thanks to Athenais and Nicolas at Rev 9 for that. I also noted that the word near the 3 is difficult to decipher. Apple?, Apollo? April? Argentina is written 3 times by the same hand: Marcelo and all Argentina love the Beatles Argentina Lucy Argentina Uruguay Also. The same hand writes: All you need is love . Just some curiosities.
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Post by LUCY on Apr 24, 2005 3:26:02 GMT
NICE + CHeq ? More speculation Someone (Brian?) took a cheque/money to Nice, France for JPM's release fom (Bad) Jo-hnny Hallydays containment. Maybe? I think it's Nige + Chris Apollo said to look for Canadian references...I only found a few names. most likely fans...
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Post by TheDZ on Apr 24, 2005 6:07:07 GMT
I think it's Nige + Chris Apollo said to look for Canadian references...I only found a few names. most likely fans... Hey Thanks Lucy I think you're right about that. Chris wrote (her?) name in the middle of the door above the mail slot, same writing so... The Canadian references I found were... Hello George from Lynn Mullard I believe in Beatles I Need You George Love Lynn Toronto ON Canada Lynn also writes: George Your Music is the best, it has Changed my life I believe in Beatles 1 Lynn Mullard 2 Cheryl Gray Cheryl Gray writes her name in large letters to the right of the mail slot Lynn Mullard to the left Also... Come Together Again Vince Bruno CANADA Power to the BEATLES Vince wrote again... Power to the Beatles under the mail slot Toronto is quite close to Borden Ontario, (Canadian Military Police) Also ,another Ringo Album, RingoRama, makes direct reference to Rama Ontario, where Ringo started the tour promoting the album. Rama is very close to Borden and Toronto. Curious No? Are there more Canadian references I missed?
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Post by LUCY on Apr 27, 2005 11:54:08 GMT
unless I'm missing something quite obvious, this has been a fruitless pursuit........the only signature that intrigues me is LNM or is it WMS (encripted upside down, it works either way) and it appears to be a righthanded script.........
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Post by abbey on Apr 27, 2005 14:29:08 GMT
Is that like Linda N McCartney?
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Post by semolinapilchard on Apr 30, 2005 17:31:00 GMT
It's like you guys are speaking in a different language...it's all Greek to me.
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Post by TotalInformation on Aug 8, 2005 7:15:44 GMT
Hey folks, Alfie is on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow (Monday) night. And I wanted to take the occasion to throw in my take on this. I think that not only could "Alfie" very well be largely about James Paul McCartney, but that it was written by JPM as well. Either Bill Naughton wasn't a real person; or he was an older man who had sold maybe a few short stories when JPM approached him to be his frontman. Again, it all ties back into the Shake-speare scam, which I contend JPM learned about no later than 1963; perhaps around September 11 1962 when they recorded for EMI. Bill Naughton -- William Noone ; a different name than the one he invented for the Beatle Book byline, William Shepherd. (Shakes-peare as the Appolonian shepherd; with William Shaksper the front man for the courtier-authors. ) So, if Family Way was a JPM play, who was it out? Himself and his wife Jane Asher? Were they secretly married and never consumated, living in the Asher household? For how long? Was any (or all) of it drawn from Sylvie & Johnny's story? There's also another Naughton play about working-class family life in England in the 50s. Then there's the sequel to Alfie, a novel published in 1970 about Alfie falling for a a slutty magazine editor. If you ask me, I think the man known as FAUL likely largely wrote that followup. There was a gilm of that one too. That's about it for Bill Naughton. Oh, and getting back to Family Way, you can really sew this one up vis-avis Shakeseare by checking the name of the group credited with performing JPM's 45 single of the Family Way Theme. The Tudor Minstrels. (Who was the pre-eminent Tudor Minstrel...? "Shake-speare"!) Oh and to digress a bit the Naughton cipher makes one think perhaps indeed "Nowhere Man" was largely addressed to JPM, as has been suggested. Anyway, check your local listings and set your VCR and/or DVR accordingly, or I suppose just tune in. More here
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Post by BeatlePaul on Aug 8, 2005 10:41:43 GMT
Hey folks, Alfie is on Turner Classic Movies tomorrow (Monday) night. And I wanted to take the occasion to throw in my take on this. I think that not only could "Alfie" very well be largely about James Paul McCartney, but that it was written by JPM as well. Either Bill Naughton wasn't a real person; or he was an older man who had sold maybe a few short stories when JPM approached him to be his frontman. Again, it all ties back into the Shake-speare scam, which I contend JPM learned about no later than 1963; perhaps around September 11 1962 when they recorded for EMI. Bill Naughton -- William Noone ; a different name than the one he invented for the Beatle Book byline, William Shepherd. (Shakes-peare as the Appolonian shepherd; with William Shaksper the front man for the courtier-authors. ) So, if Family Way was a JPM play, who was it out? Himself and his wife Jane Asher? Were they secretly married and never consumated, living in the Asher household? For how long? Was any (or all) of it drawn from Sylvie & Johnny's story? There's also another Naughton play about working-class family life in England in the 50s. Then there's the sequel to Alfie, a novel published in 1970 about Alfie falling for a a slutty magazine editor. If you ask me, I think the man known as FAUL likely largely wrote that followup. There was a gilm of that one too. That's about it for Bill Naughton. Oh, and getting back to Family Way, you can really sew this one up vis-avis Shakeseare by checking the name of the group credited with performing JPM's 45 single of the Family Way Theme. The Tudor Minstrels. (Who was the pre-eminent Tudor Minstrel...? "Shake-speare"!) Oh and to digress a bit the Naughton cipher makes one think perhaps indeed "Nowhere Man" was largely addressed to JPM, as has been suggested. Anyway, check your local listings and set your VCR and/or DVR accordingly, or I suppose just tune in. More here Miss WinterS holds a ticket with "ALF" written on. Please notice ALL the details of that stripe.....
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Post by plastic paul on Aug 8, 2005 22:01:13 GMT
I thought i saw "paul" written but not sure, this is the kinda stuff that made me join this forum, great stuff TI & BP.
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Post by plastic paul on Aug 8, 2005 22:12:16 GMT
Just searched naughton on IMDB, here is some more info.
Date of birth (location) 12 June 1910 Ballyhaunis, Ireland
JPM had irish heritage, links to this place?
Eleanor Bron who featured in help starred in Alfie.
The play about working class lives is called Spring and Port Wine, plot summary; A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.
There may be some info there that someone can make use of.
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Aug 9, 2005 1:12:01 GMT
Please notice ALL the details of that stripe..... Well she does have nice....hands, but the fingers look like bodies and letters. "ST" or "SWT'. And the "PS" makes me think of "PS: I Love You", but I don't think it is. "Yes" in purple over her knee. Numbers on her seat. Something written in the steering wheel. A blue "A" on the other hand. A daisy over the "f" in delightful, and a partidge in a pear tree. ;D Total Information, you blow me away! How far into the triple digits is your IQ?
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Post by plastic paul on Aug 9, 2005 2:58:24 GMT
Byrds, where you see that blue "A" on her hand can you see "U "L" next to it? I'm pretty sure i can, and could the blue outline of here other fingers kinda looks like a sideways "P"......
Hmmmm, reminds me of the tuba and hookah on Sgt. Pepper making a "PA" but not being able to find the "UL", an incomplete Paul.....
Now where have I heard that before??? Ouch!!!
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Post by byrdsmaniac on Aug 10, 2005 2:00:40 GMT
ALF - "Alien Life Form". Just had to say it. ;D The letters from her seat to the right of her hand: "AUGUST"? The P.S. numbers, like '08'? Anyone have a guess about the purple on her breast and shoulder? Can we get a blow up?
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Post by BeatlePaul on Aug 10, 2005 11:31:02 GMT
ALF - "Alien Life Form". Just had to say it. ;D The letters from her seat to the right of her hand: "AUGUST"? The P.S. numbers, like '08'? Anyone have a guess about the purple on her breast and shoulder? Can we get a blow up? It's "just" LUSTMiss WinterS left hand (on our right) forms two guys kissing (?) as being on the grass... The written ALF is on a ticket attached on MMT driver.... The letters of a broken word "Sylvie" are all over the driver silhouette. P. S. = Paul and Sylvie initials (?) The written delightful Wendy WinterS is inside the Sardinia isle silhouette. The word SEX or SEXY is inside the steering wheel A Marigold is on top.
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Post by robbby on Aug 11, 2005 0:57:40 GMT
where you see the STPS i also see an O. If you look at the tips of the 2 fingers stretched out there is a swirl which definatley (to me) looks like an O. this would spell out the word STOPS. This at the tips of what looks like the feet of an outlayed representation of a body.
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Post by Hamlet on Aug 12, 2005 4:43:12 GMT
the word PAUL is written in cyan letteres around the woman[s right hand starting in her fingers and going counterclockwise... the whole drawing is telling a relationship between Paul and Sylvie, with sex and lust... Definitely PS is for Paul and Sylvie
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