Monday, October 25, 2010

Not Even the Beatles Can Escape Photoshop


The original copy of the Beatles Abbey Road album cover shows Paul McCartney, third in line, holding a cigarette. United States poster companies have airbrushed this image to remove the cigarette from McCartney's hand. This change was made without the permission of either McCartney or Apple Records, which owns the rights to the image. "We have never agreed to anything like this," said an Apple spokesman. "It seems these poster companies got a little carried away. They shouldn't have done what they have, but there isn't much we can do about it now."

9 comments:

  1. good :) great beatles!

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  2. really a great picture

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  3. hmm i never noticed that before actually. I think i've only seen the cover without the cigarette

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  4. if anyone needs to be preserved its the beatles, damn, dont you love corporate interests?

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  5. I wonder if the people in Westminster get annoyed with all the tourists trying to recreate that scene at that crosswalk.

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  6. lolol. one cig ain't bad.

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  7. where do you get these pics?

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  8. i still suspect about these posts. i wanna know how they did it~!!!

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