alt. White album clues

[tkp66]

[Perplexed]

tkp66 said:

I see an arcade of faces and crowds inside the red. Blow it up. Looks like it was cropped in and blurred to become part of the picture. A lot of this picture is that way-----parts of pictures have been defocused and "sunk" into the texture of the composition of this artistic montage.

[mistermoonlight]

Where's this picture from? It's not from the White Album poster is it?
It reminded me a bit of this postcard I found on a Sylvie Vartan fansite:

[mistermoonlight]

Very appropriate lyrics by mr. Knopfler..

I guess Poly-Vartan is on that postcard because at that time she lived at Loconville, which is in the district of Picardie as well (although it's in the south of Picardie, the coast is Nord Picardie). Very strange card indeed and ugly as hell!

But that little Beatles artwork is intruiging! Can anabody tell where it's from? It reminds of some Led Zeppelin artwork, maybe the same artist?

[tkp66]

I should have said looks like Paul.(zoom in a bit)

According to pre-press plans for "The White Album", The Beatles was to be anything but white. Paul had wanted to include an elaborate booklet, which became the lyric poster and photos idea. Also, the album was recorded partly under the working title "A Doll's House". A proposed idea cover, shown here, is similar to the final result. This is the front of a gatefold cover, the back of which was an illustration of the Beatles' faces in a mountainside overlooking a sea.

byrdsmaniac said:

tpk66 wrote: "Green

[/color]: Paul on a boat"

How can you tell? What makes you think so?

"Red[/color]: Wreckage of some kind."


Beachcombing
(Mark Knopfler)

They say there's wreckage washing up
All along the coast
No one seems to know too much
Of who got hit the most
Nothing has been spoken
There's not a lot to see
But something has been broken
That's how it feels to me

We had a harmony
I never meant to spoil
Now it's lying in the water
Like a slick of oil
The tide is running out to sea
Under a darkening sky
The night is falling down on me
And I'm thinking that I should

Head on home
Been gone too long
Leave my roaming
Beachcombing

Little wild kitten out hunting
To see what he can get
You're in a big city now
Won't stop growing yet
The sun is going down smoking
A flaming testament
Something has been broken
And it feels permanent

Little seabird flying
He knows where he wants to go
Guess i ought to pack my stuff
And do the thing I know
I turn around and head on back
Along the old sea wall
I felt something give and crack
And now I'm sorry that's all

Head on home
Been gone too long
Leave my roaming
Beachcombing

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