Title: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: Rev. Powell on August 11, 2022, 08:03:25 AM Surely you remember the famous cover with 71 cutouts of famous/iconic people on it.
(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Gm8fJRcE6RnNTZ8iushXML.jpg) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band So I decided to make a list of people who would make my personal Sgt. Pepper's cover. The idea is they have to be influential to me in some way, and recognizable. Here it is: 1. Friedrich Nietzsche 2. Vladimir Nabokov 3. W.C. Fields 4. Muhammad Ali 5. Miles Davis 6. Louis Armstrong 7. Billie Holiday 8. Johann Sebastian Bach 9. Edgar Allan Poe 10. Lewis Carrol 11. Mark Twain 12. David Lynch 13. Norm MacDonald 14. Ludwig van Beethoven 15. Andy Kaufman 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. John Lennon 18. Paul McCartney 19. George Harrison 20. Ringo Starr 21. Tom Waits 22. Federico Fellini 23. Stanley Kubrick 24. Nicolas Cage 25. Tom Servo 26. Crow T. Robot 27. Hunter S. Thompson 28. Ennio Morricone 29. Boris Karloff (as the Monster) 30. Bertrand Russel 31. Jean-Paul Sartre 32. Salvador Dali 33. Luis Bunuel 34. Ella Fitzgerald 35. Janis Joplin 36. Max Screck (as Nosferatu) 37. Conrad Veidt (as Cesare) 38. Mae West 39. Bjork 40. Louise Brooks 41. John Waters 42. Frank Zappa 43. Groucho Marx 44. Chico Marx 45. Harpo Marx 46. Franz Kafka 47. Bruce Lee 48. William Shakespeare 49. Pauline Kael 50. Johnny Cash 51. Ed Wood 52. Volodymyr Zelenskyy 53. Fran Liebowitz 54. Pyotyr Tchaicovsky 55. Pam Grier 56. Jean Cocteau 57. Salvador Dali 58. Alfred Hitchcock 59. Alejandro Jodorowsky 60. Seijun Suzuki 61. Thelonious Monk 62. Winston Churchill 63. Mr. Rodgers 64. JR "Bob" Dobbs 65. Charlie Parker 66. Walt Disney 67. Matt Groening 68. Fyodor Dostoevsky 69. Moondog 70. Orson Welles 71. David Bowie I think only 4 of mine were on the original cover. Some were not famous (not even alive?) when the original was produced in 1966. Obviously 71 names is a lot, but maybe you can come up with a bunch of names you would have to put on your cover. Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: ER on August 11, 2022, 09:09:41 AM What a great topic! I will have to think about this and match your seventy-one.... I will not look at your list yet so your great brain doesn't influence me.
Elvis all the Beatles Bowie Freddie Mercury The overrated but fun Sylvia Plath Shirley Jackson Ronald Reagan Barney (the purple dinosaur) George Lucas Spielberg Martina Navratalova Sheldon Cooper My dogs Karl Marx Golda Meir JRR Tolkien Johnny Depp Mike Tyson Cthullu and his creator Alex Trebek Lady Chablis G.K. Chesterton The Blues Brothers QEII (not the ship) The Sandman Spock The Virgin of Guadalupe Marilyn Monroe Homer Simpson Tyrion Lannister Edward Gorey Uma Thurman from Kill Bill Pope John Paul II with Hugh Hefner and Cark Sagan beside him Malcolm X (absolutely my favorite black person ever, except Jesus) Waldo Liberace ET Princess Di Stephen King Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz Madame Blavatsky Farrah Fawcett John Wayne Oscar Wilde Freddie Mercury's cat Delilah Shirley Temple Hank Hill Frank Sinatra Barbara Bush Borat Malcolm McLaren Conan O'Brien Gary Busey Joan Rivers Forrest Gump the Statue of Liberty Winston Churchill RC Merchant Michael Scott Aubrey Beardsley Andy Warhol Michael Jackson Penn & Teller Sublime's Bee Girl Pam Anderson Cindy Crawford Monica Lewinsky Johnny Cash a gray alien E.A. Poe Lala Teletubby the green-eyed Afghan girl from National Geographic Popeye the Sailor and of course the Prophet Mohammad Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: RCMerchant on August 11, 2022, 11:23:43 AM 1. Lugosi as Dracula (surprise!)
2. the Beatles 6. the Beatles (1964 version) 10. Tesla 11. Ali 12. Elvis 13. BB King 14. JFK 15. Karl Marx 16. Marilyn 17. HP Lovecraft 18. Karloff as the Monster 19. Hank Williams 20. Superman 21. Screaming Lord Sutch 22. Theda Bara 23. Churchill 24. Amelia Earhart 25. Billie Holiday 26. King Kong 27. the 3 Stooges 30. MLK 31. Gandhi 32. HG Wells 33. Vampira 34. Lincoln 35. Louise Brooks 36. Dali 37. Bugs Bunny 38. Charlie Parker 39. Garbo 40. Godzilla more later... (I'm sticking to folks before 1966) Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: Trevor on August 11, 2022, 11:50:20 AM Mine is a little weird (coming from me, what would you expect?)
Princess Diana Dame Joan Collins Leonard Nimoy Richard Burton Sir Christopher Lee James Caan Jodie Foster Jeffrey Dean Morgan Sir Sidney Poitier Peter Sellers Mathieu Kassovitz Lewis Collins Sir Michael Caine Hugh Masekela Elisabeth Sladen Harrison Ford Lord Johnny Knoxville The Moody Blues Gillian Anderson Kevin Eastman Carrie Fisher Peter Laird Judith Hoag Jans Rautenbach Stephen King Sir Kenny Dalgleish Nelson Mandela Sir Anthony Hopkins John Williams Sir Alex Ferguson John Wyndham Mark Hamill Sir Stanley Baker Sir Harry Secombe Ted Moore BSC Sir Roger Moore Tom Selleck Georges Remi (Herge) Patrick McGoohan Jack Lord Leslie Nielsen Robert DeNiro David Morrell Paul Walker Ivan Hall Richard Harris Spike Milligan Trevor Rabin Rene Goscinny Albert Uderzo Sir Chuck Norris David Millin ASC Alistair MacLean Uncle Uwe Boll Gene L. Coon Vincent G Cox, ASC Bruce Lee Jamie Uys Richard Stanley Don Siegel Orson Welles John Frankenheimer Gene Roddenberry Sidney Lumet Louise Jameson Sixto Rodriguez Stan Lee Tom Baker Dame Olivia Newton-John Sylvester Stallone Jackie Chan Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: RCMerchant on August 11, 2022, 02:36:59 PM OK- it's later!
41. Geronimo 42. Pete the Pup 43. James Dean 44. Groucho 45. Einstein 46. Red Grange 47. Musidora 48. Beethoven 49. Cab Calloway 50. Bogie 51. Fritz Lang 52. Hitchcock 53. Sitting Bull 54. Johnny Cash 55. Malcolm X 56. Dillinger 57. Ty Cobb 58. Timothy Leary 59. Brando 60. Felix the Cat 61. Edgar Allen Poe 62. Billy the Kid 63. Alfred E. Nueman 64. Sam Cooke 65. Rat Fink 66. Creature from the Black Lagoon 67. Rosa Parks 68. Basil Rathbone as Holmes 69. da Vinci 70. Jack Kirby 71. FDR Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: retrorussell on August 11, 2022, 03:38:13 PM Cool idea!
I'll have to chew over my own submissions later. Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: Alex on August 11, 2022, 04:54:56 PM I figure a few of mine might be a bit obscure for some people, so I'll put a note beside the ones I am not sure everyone will get.
1) Peter Cushing. 2) Vincent Price. 3) Peter Lorre. 4) Christopher Lee. 5) James Herbert. 6) Terry Pratchett. 7) Robert E. Howard. 8) H.P. Lovecraft. 9) Lemmy (Motorhead). 10) Roger Hargreaves (Mr Men author (the first series of books I attempted to fully collect)). 11) Debbie Harry. 12) Carrie Fisher. 13) John Wagner (Judge Dredd artist). 14) Brian Bolland (Judge Dredd artist). 15) Ian Livingstone (Author of Fighting Fantasy Books and founder of Games Workshop). 16) Steve Jackson (the UK one, partner of Ian Livingston). 17) Winston Churchill. 18) Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. 19) Tim Berners-Lee (the reason why accessing the internet is free). 20) Freddie Mercury. 21) Brian May. 22) Clint Eastwood. 23) Steve Harris (Iron Maiden). 24) Dave Murray (Iron Maiden). 25) Brian Johnson (AC/DC). 26) Angus Young (AC/DC). 27) Malcolm Young (AC/DC). 29) Meatloaf. 30) Geoffrey Hayes (Presenter of Rainbow (kids show) for 20 years). 31) Duncan Goodhew (Olympic swimmer with no hair follicles). 32) Sid Haig. 33) Mick Foley. 34) William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield (for his role in the start of the path towards abolishing slavery in the UK). 35) James Mason. 36) Richard Halliwell (Original designer of Warhammer 40,000). 37) Hannibal Barca. 38) Ozzy Osbourne. 39) Henry Moore (Artist). 40) Tim Burton. 41) Ray Harryhausen. 42) James Horner. 43) Kenneth Williams. 44) Les Dawson (Comedian who unfortunately died on stage, becoming the first dead person I ever saw). 45) Tom Baker (The Dr. Who actor). 46) Jim Henson. 47) Rick Baker. 48) Tom Savani. 49) George A. Romaro. 50) Rutger Hauer. 51) Ridley Scott. 52) Elvira. 53) Robert Englund. 54) Joanne Cook (Someone none of you will have heard of). 55) Fritz Lieber. 56) Erin Grey. 57) Sam Jones. 58) John Carpenter. 59) Sean Connery. 60) Joe Dever (Author of the Lone Wolf books). 61) Garry Chalk (Artist for the Lone Wolf books). 62) Jacqueline Pearce (Actress in Blakes 7). 63) Gary Gygax. 64) Albert Camus. 65) Erik Maria Remarque. 66) Nicholas Fisk. 67) Chris Jericho. 68) The Ghostbusters. 69) Ornella Muti. 70) Caroline Munro 71) H.G. Wells. Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: retrorussell on August 11, 2022, 06:48:16 PM Being a 70s/80s kid I'll go with:
1. Darth Vader 2. Richard Nixon 3. Leonardo (TMNT) 4. Donatello (TMNT) 5. Raphael (TMNT) 6. Michaelangelo (TMNT) 7. Ronald Reagan 8. JAWS (shark) 9. Possessed Regan MacNeil (Exorcist) 10. Michael Myers (Halloween) 11. Don Corleone (Godfather) 12. Freddy Kreuger 13. Jason Voorhees 14. Randle McMurphy (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) 15. Olivia Newton-John (Rest in peace) 16. John Travolta 17. Egon Spengler 18. Winston Zeddermore 19. Peter Venkman 20. Ray Stantz 21. Ellen Ripley 22. Slimer 23. Madonna 24. Cyndi Lauper 25. Sid Vicious 26. Six Million Dollar Man 27. Bionic Woman 28. JR Ewing 29. Pac-Man 30. Farrah Fawcett 31. Donkey Kong 32. Mario 33. Space Invader 34. Michael Jackson 35. Don Cornelius 36. Matthew Broderick 37. Ralph Macchio (Karate Kid) 38. Rocky (Sly Stallone) 39. Daryl Hall 40. John Oates 41. Paula Abdul 42. Arsenio Hall 43. Johnny Carson 44. Bill Murray 45. Chevy Chase 46. Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) 47. Mr. Hinkley (Greatest American Hero) 48. Linda Barret (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) 49. A crying Hawkeye Pierce (famous finale of M*A*S*H*) 50. Ted Danson (Cheers) 51. David Lee Roth jumping 52. Deborah Harry 53. Whammy (Press Your Luck) 54. Alex Trebek (Jeopardy!) 55. Pat Sajak (WOF) 56. Vanna White (WOF) 57. E.T. 58. Indiana Jones 59. Terminator 60. Hulk Hogan That's all I've got for now.. Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: bob on August 11, 2022, 07:09:01 PM 1 Abraham Lincoln
2 Ghandi 3 Martin Luther King 4 JFK 5 FDR 6 Ed Wood 7 Poe 8 Hank Aaron 9 Harrison Ford 10 Michael Caine 11 Teddy Roosevelt 12 Mel Brooks 13 Joe Namath 14 Charlie Chaplin 15 Bruce Lee 16 Susan B Anthony 17 Harriet Tubman 18 George Washington 19 Alfred Hitchcock 20 Robert DeNiro 21 Clint Eastwood 22 Ric Flair 23 Elvis 24 Muhammad Ali 25 Andre the Giant 26 Paul McCartney 27 John Lennon 28 Hunter S Thompson 29 Ringo Starr 30 George Harrison 31 Stanley Kubrick 32 Queen Elizabeth II 33 Betty White 34 Babe Ruth 35 Jackie Robinson 36 Groucho Marx 37 Quentin Tarantino 38 Samuel L Jackson 39 Spike Lee 40 Christopher Walken 41 George Clooney 42 Princess Diana 43 Jesse Owens 44 Kevin Costner 45 Vincent Price 46 Sean Connery 47 E.T. 48 King Kong 49 Malcolm X 50 John Wayne 51 Marilyn Monroe 52 Alex Trebek 53 Regis Philbin 54 Arnold Schwarzenegger 55 Orson Welles 56 Sylvester Stallone 57 Vincent Van Goh 58 George Lucas 59 David Lynch 60 Cheech 61 Chong 62 Dean Martin 63 Bob Ross 64 Akira Kurosawa 65 Godzilla 66 The Stay Puft Marshmallow Man 67 Slash 68 Ozzy Osbourne 69 Jason Voorhees 70 William Shakespeare 71 Rod Sterling Title: Re: Who would make your Sgt. Pepper's cover? Post by: retrorussell on August 11, 2022, 09:52:16 PM More:
61. Bruce Springsteen 62. Janet Jackson 63. Joe Montana 64. Wayne Gretzky 65. Bo Jackson 66. Nadia Comaneci 67. Mark Spitz 68. Optimus Prime 69. Tom Kennedy 70. Paul Lynde 71. Charles Nelson Reilly 72. Scrooge McDuck 73. Inspector Gadget 74. Erik Estrada 75. Rock Hudson |