The Beatles Put a Movie Star on the 'Sgt. Pepper' Cover 3 Times
A movie star who is still remembered today is on The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' three times and one time she's barely visible.The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band features numerous famous people on the cover. One movie star is featured on the album three times. During one of those appearances, she’s depicted as a doll.
The cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper includes people from many fields. For example, it includes authors like Karl Marx and Oscar Wilde, musicians like Bob Dylan and Dion DiMucci, and religious leaders like Aleister Crowley and Paramahansa Yogananda.
Despite this, Hollywood stars make up a huge portion of the people on the album. Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, W. C. Fields, Laurel and Hardy, Bette Davis, Tyrone Power, and Marlene Dietrich are all there. According to Goldmine, child star Shirley Temple is on Sgt. Pepper three times. Each appearance is very different from the last.
The first time Temple appears on the cover, she’s in the front row of the crowd. Her hair is barely visible behind the wax figures of John Lennon and Ringo Starr. She can also be seen prominently on the right side of the front row in black-and-white. She’s depicted as a small child rather than the adult she was at the time.
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