Hammond Guthrie Frank Zappas art director, Cal Schenkel - TopicsExpress



          

Hammond Guthrie Frank Zappas art director, Cal Schenkel photographed a collage for the album cover, which parodied The Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Zappa spent US$4,000 on the photo shoot, which he stated was a direct negative of the Sgt. Pepper album cover. Sgt. Pepper had blue skies in the background, we had a thunderstorm. Jimi Hendrix, a friend of Zappas, took part in the photo shoot, standing where a wax sculpture of Sonny Liston had appeared on the Beatles album cover. ~)(~ Zappa phoned Paul McCartney, seeking permission for the parody. McCartney told him that it was an issue for business managers, but Zappa responded that the artists themselves were supposed to tell their business managers what to do. Nevertheless, Capitol objected, and the albums release was delayed for five months. Verve decided to package the album with inverted cover artwork, placing the parody cover as interior artwork (and the intended interior artwork as the main sleeve) out of fear of legal action. Zappa was angered over the decision; Schenkel felt that the Sgt. Pepper parody was a stronger image than the final released cover. The album was released on March 4, 1968 by Verve Records. It reached number thirty on the Billboard 200 ~!~
Posted on: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 21:55:50 +0000

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