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2020(令和二)年05月30日(土)『discovermusic.jp』Published
ザ･ビートルズの『Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band』は、史上最高にアイコニックなアルバム・ジャケットの座をいまだ維持し続けている。ポール・マッカートニーの着想から、イギリスのポップ・アーティスト、ピーター・ブレイクと妻のジャン・ハワースによる最終デザインに至るまで、これは単なるアルバム・ジャケットの枠を超えている。当時を象徴する見事なモダン・アート作品なのだ。このアートワークは、当時としては画期的なデザインだった。また、制作費用が3,000ポンド（現在では5万ポンド以上に相当する）と破格で、当時のポップ・アルバムのジャケットでは最高額である。コンセプトは、ザ・ビートルズが「サージェント・ペパーズ・ロンリー・ハーツ・クラブ・バンド」に扮して登場し、今ちょうどコンサートを終えたところで影響力の大きな人々の集団に囲まれている、というものだ。合計58人が、最終版のアートワークに登場している。ジャケットに登場した人々は、ジョン、ポール、ジョージ、ピーター・ブレイク、ジャン・ハワース、そしてロンドンの美術品商、ロバート・フレイザーが共同で作ったリストから選ばれた。イエス・キリストとアドルフ・ヒトラーは、掲載には不適切とされ、マハトマ・ガンジーやレオ・ゴーシーといった人々は、別の理由で削除された。また、エルヴィス・プレスリーの顔がないのも気になるが、これはポール・マッカートニーが後年語っているが、「あまりに重要で、雲の上の存在すぎて、口にするだけでも畏れ多い存在」だったからだという。最終ヴァージョンに残った人々は、文化人や重要人物、さらにはザ・ビートルズのメンバーが関心を持つ人々が並ぶ魅惑的な顔ぶれだ。「Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band」の歌詞のように、「皆さんも長年、このバンドのことは知っているだろう。それでは、『Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band』のジャケットに掲載されている残りの人々を皆さんに紹介しよう……」
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10｜ Richard Merkin ｜『Ｗikipedia』
10｜リチャード・マーキン｜『discovermusic.jp』
└─―――――――――┘ アメリカの画家／イラストレーター。1938年生まれのリチャード･マーキンは、自身が生まれる前に流行した草創期のジャズに魅了された。彼のモダニストなスタイルは、ジャズの抽象性とマッチしており、1966年にピーター・ブレイクが制作したトリビュート作品『Souvenirs For Richard Merkin』のインスピレーションともなっているヨ(=^◇^=)
1938(昭和13)年XX月XX日(ＸX) Born
†2009(平成21)年09月05日(sat) Died. 71 years old
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https://sgtpepper.udiscovermusic.com/
†https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Merkin
https://www.udiscovermusic.jp/stories/whos-who-on-the-sgt-peppers-album-cover
https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/whos-who-on-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-album-cover/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_images_on_the_cover_of_Sgt._Pepper%27s_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band
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本多さんの鑑定済みである「メンバー4人揃った本物の直筆サイン」（鑑定・保証書付き）は超貴重。これは
‡1963(昭和38)年09月05日(木)、イギリス・トーントンで行われたコンサートの際、ファンの女性がサイン帳にもらったもの。ビートルズ研究所会員特別価格で110万円
https://san-tatsu.jp/articles/19417/
音源◆The Beatles - Recording Session, September 5 1968 https://youtu.be/zcDCLT8q9RU
‡5 September 1968, EMI Studios, Abbey Road
Two separate versions of While My Guitar Gently Weeps were worked on during this session: overdubs to the first group attempt, and a remake which eventually became the released version. McCartney played organ on some of the unused takes, and also busked a version of Lady Madonna after take 40.
Track Listing:
01. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Studio Chat) [0:00?]
02. Lady Madonna (Rehearsal) [0:17?]
03. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Rehearsal) [1:44?]
音源◆The Beatles - Recording Session, September 5, 1967 https://youtu.be/2Ra8ZjHgnIk
‡September 5, 1967, Studio 1, EMI Studios, London
Following the death of Brian Epstein on
27 August 1967, The Beatles regrouped at Paul McCartney's London home on
01 September 1967, where the decision was made to continue work on the Magical Mystery Tour project. Four days later they began work on one of the soundtrack's highlights, John Lennon's surrealist masterpiece "I Am The Walrus". Sixteen takes of the rhythm track were recorded during this session, which began at 7pm and ended at 1am the following morning.
Track Listing:
01. I Am The Walrus (Take 7) [0:00?]
02. I Am The Walrus (Take 8) [1:51?]
03. I Am The Walrus (Take 9) [2:34?]
04. I Am The Walrus (Rehearsal Take) [6:57?]
音源◆The Beatles - Live At The Cavern Club, https://youtu.be/RNhqkvjQGl4
‡September 5 1962
The Cavern Club, Liverpool, 5 September 1962
01. Some Other Guy [0:00]
02. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Source #1) [2:17]
03. Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Source #2) [3:18]
The Beatles had been filmed by Granada Television at the Cavern Club on 22 August 1962, performing Some Other Guy for the Know The North programme. On this day their sound technician Gordon Butler returned to the venue to make a better-quality recording. Butler used three microphones rather than one for this evening show. He made an hour-long recording of The Beatles, of which performances of Some Other Guy and Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! have survived. The first source for Kansas City is the one found on the Anthology proyect with an intro. The other is the complete acetate but without the intro.
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音源◆The Beatles - Rehearsals At The Cavern Club, https://youtu.be/1LHtidTwjJ4
‡September-October 1962
The Cavern Club, Liverpool, September - October 1962
01. I Saw Her Standing There [0:00]
02. One After 909 (Version #1) [3:05]
03. One After 909 (Version #2) [6:13]
04. Catswalk (Version #1) [9:26]
05. Catswalk (Version #2) [10:47]
This recording probably dates from late September - early October 1962. It can be assumed that it was recorded for reference purposes by The Beatles themselves. How the tape came in to circulation is unclear. Likewise, while it is likely that the original tape contains or contained more, these performances are the only ones to surface. Some people speculated that these recordings feature Pete Best and its from March 1962, but Ringo has stated the he is the one playing on these recordings.
『LIVE CHRONICLE EXTRA』
AUDIO DISC
CAVERN CLUB LIVERPOOL U.K. August 22, 1962
01.19620822-Some Other Guy (no glitches)
02.19620822-Some Other Guy (from "Man of the Decade")
CAVERN CLUB LIVERPOOL U.K. September 5, 1962
03. Some Other Guy
04. Kansas City - Hey Hey Hey Hey (with introduction)
05. Kansas City - Hey Hey Hey Hey (complete Acetate)
次に映像です。初期を中心に様々な貴重映像が収録されています。最初期のカラー映像、デビュー前の小さなクラブで演奏しているビートルズ。そしてキャバンクラブにおける「Some Other Guy」は同じ様に見えて、実は複数テイク撮影されているのが一目でわかるバージョン違いをすべて収録。キャバンクラブでは
1962(昭和37)年08月22日に最初に撮影され、音が貧弱だということで
1962(昭和37)年09月05日に音だけ再録されたとされています。ここで複数テイクの「Some Other Guy」を見比べることにより、異なる演奏であるのが明らかです。つまり
1962(昭和37)年08月22日に「Some Other Guy」は1度だけでなく、撮影を意識してか、少なくとも2度演奏されていたことが、この映像から明らかになっています。
また、演奏シーン以外のキャバンでの客席の様子などもうかがえます。
https://www.teenagedream-record-3rd.net/?pid=62236498
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｜Press Conference in Chicago ｜No.28
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‡1964(昭和39)年09月05日(sat) September 5
While arriving in Chicago during the Beatles' 1964 world tour, a decision was made by someone outside of the Beatle camp to change the landing site of their airplane to a more secretive spot on the airfield.
This last-minute change would end up disappointing the large crowd of devoted fans who had waited many hours for a chance to see the Beatles at the airport. The Beatles felt they were being incorrectly blamed for the incident by reports in the Chicago news, and sought to set the record straight.
Paul: "It was yesterday we heard about it. Umm, we heard that we had to land at a secret spot on the airfield. I'm not sure whether it happened or not today. Did it? Was it a secret place today?"
John: "It was a different one from the one we were meant to land at, but luckily somebody found out, you see, so somebody did see us."
Paul: "Yeah. The only thing is, you know, if we come in sort of secret..."
Ringo: (regarding the reporter) "I don't think he's getting it, you know. He's looked away. Are any of these (microphones on) in the P.A.? Then you can tell him."
Paul: (laughs) "If we come in secretly and there's people there to see us at another place..."
Q: (rudely) "Can you ALL speak?"
John: "Yeah, but we can't all speak at once, can we? and as he's answering the question, what's the point of us all butting in?"
Paul: "True."
John: "'Cuz you're finding it hard enough to understand him."
Q: "What was your impression of the Chicago skyline?"
John: "Oh, yeah. Good."
Q: "That's it?"
John: "Well, it looks like any other, you know."
Q: "We thought it was rather distinctive."
John: "Oh, well... each people... you know - Everybody likes their own hometown, don't they."
Q: "You've been on this tour for quite some time now in America, and I'm sure you've learned quite a bit. If you had it to do again, and chances are you're planning that, what would you change, if anything?"
John: "Well, we'd probably just go to different cities - not go to the same places we've been to."
Q: "Are you satisfied with the security? Are you satisfied with the arrangements that were made?"
Paul: "Yes."
John: "Yeah, it's been quite good, except for the slip-ups where we don't see the fans."
Q: "and you say this is not your fault."
John: "It's never... we never arrange anything. The only thing we arrange is what numbers we're gonna sing."
Q: "Whose fault is it?"
John: "I don't know. It could be - it's different people. Half the time it's the police or half the time it's - I don't know, you know. There's always somebody that does something."
Q: "Don't you think it's done for your good?"
Paul: "But see, if anybody thinks..."
Ringo: "They think it is."
John: "They think it is, but it isn't. It's harmed us all in the end anyway because the poor fans that have been there for twelve hours think, 'Why aren't they coming to see us.'"
Paul: "See, the worst thing from our point of view is that it looks as though it's us who's done it, too. and, uhh... I was watching the TV last night, and on the news they just showed all the fans sort of disappointed. and they didn't actually say anything about who's fault it was, but they just said, 'Police commissioner so-and-so said the Beatles WANTED to land there.' and they said no more. That really sounded as though we'd said, 'Please don't let us amongst all those fans. We hate them,' which is completely untrue, you know. We definitely asked to meet them or at least drive past 'em, and they told us, 'No.'"
Q: "Quite a few of the girls are concerned about John's throat. How is it today?"
John: "Well, it's better than it was yesterday. It's not ninety percent, but it's..."
Q: "Have you fellas given any thought to what you're going to do when the bubble breaks, so to speak?"
Paul and George: (laugh)
John: "Well, we're gonna have a good time."
George: "We never plan ahead."
Q: "How about your retirement or buying into a big business..."
John: "We already are a big business, so we don't have to buy into another one."
Q: "Well, I'm talking about if this business should wane slightly."
George: "We'll start planning when it starts to wane, but at the moment we'll just let it go on as it is."
Paul: "Anyway, yeah. We've never made plans for anything, so there's no real reason to make plans now."
Q: "Well, in your particular case, do you think you'll go into songwriting as a business?"
Paul: "I should imagine that John and I..."
John: "Well, it is. Paul and I make more money out of songwriting than we do out of doing everything else. So we'll just carry on with that, probably."
Q: "What do you do with all your money?"
John: "Put it in a bank... or the accountant looks out for it. We have people to look after it."
Q: "Are you just going to save it?"
John: "Well, I don't know."
Paul: "No."
John: "He does tricks with it. That's his job."
(laughter)
George: "and anyway, it wasn't legally ours until we paid tax on it. So the money's got to keep in the accountant's place until he's paid tax."
Paul: "At the moment it's pretty hard to spend it, you know. We all came away with about a hundred and fifty dollars each."
John and Paul: "and we've still got it."
Paul: "I haven't spent a penny or a cent."
Q: "There was a report today that amongst your fans is the Internal Revenue Service."
Beatles: (laugh)
Q: "They're supposed to be following you around. Have you noticed them around anywhere?"
John: "I haven't seen any of 'em. No."
(laughter)
Paul: "Now, mind you, you gotta pay it. But umm..."
Q: "What do you think of the American girls as opposed to British girls?"
George: "They're the same only they speak foreign - I mean, with a different accent."
Paul: "They're all good, you know."
George: "They're the same everywhere, basically, aren't they. They just talk different."
Q: "Alot of the girls seem to feel that you prefer the celebrity-type woman better than the average girl."
John: "That's the first time we've heard it. I mean, are you making that up, or does somebody say that?"
Q: "No, I've heard it before."
Paul: "Well, John's married to a non-celebrity, so there you go."
Q: "Have you dated any American girls since you've been here?"
Paul: "Yeah."
Ringo: "A couple."
Paul: "Yes, I mean... you know, dated 'em but..."
George: "We can't really, you know. On this tour we don't get much time, you know, to do anything except go to each place and perform."
John: "I haven't even seen any celebrity girls. Have you?"
George: "No, I haven't seen any."
Q: "Will you tell us why you think you are so popular?"
John: "We don't think about it. We get asked that, you know - somebody asks us that everyday, and we've no answer."
Q: "Do you want to go to the Soviet Union for a tour?"
George: "No, I don't."
Q: "Where would you like to go that you haven't gone yet?"
John: "Home."
(laughter)
Q: "You don't like the U.S.?"
John: "I mean, we haven't been home for months - so you say, 'Where do we wanna go?' We'd like to go home next."
Paul: "But see, you're trying to put answers into our mouths. We like the U.S., I mean..."
George: "We wouldn't be here..."
Paul: "We wouldn't be here if we didn't. We've been here once before, we liked it, and we came back. It's a great place, you know, but naturally you get homesick. You would if you were in England for a long time..."
John: "Maybe HE wouldn't!"
Paul: "...maybe you wouldn't."
Q: "Do you think the kind of music you're doing was fostered here and became popular over there, and consequently you made it popular again back here?"
Paul: "Yeah."
John: "The only difference is, we write it now. It's the same music."
Q: "Do you boys sense that the American boys might be a little jealous of you?"
George: "The American boys?"
John: "Do you mean the teenage boys or..."
Q: "The fans."
John: "No. I mean - they buy us."
Paul: "Not the ones we've met, anyway, you know. They're not."
John: "There's quite a few of them waving at airports and things."
Source: Audio recording of the press conference
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