It is a truism that when you start looking for something you
tend to find it; however, the more one looks at the Sgt. Pepper cover the more
one does indeed find. Thankfully, it is not just me that finds a series of
strange coincidences, happenstances, synchronicities and codes embedded within
the most iconic record sleeve of all time.
Despite not having produced a video in many years my old YouTube channel suddenly
started receiving a number of interesting, and cryptic, comments pertaining to
Pepper, and it is these comments that were the inspiration for this, and
hopefully future, articles.
It is always wonderful when somebody takes the time to read
and comment on one’s work, even more life-affirming though when they pick up
the threads and start looking for their own answers to the questions posed.
Fresh eyes always see things differently and identify new areas for
investigation and these comments – literally a deluge in this case – pose a
whole new set of questions. Not least of these being; when exactly did the
planning for Pepper begin and is it an example of predictive programming?
Here is one of the original comments: AH! LOOK AT ALL THE "LONELY" PEOPLE! (AH = 1+8 = 9) Was
"Eleanor Rigby", from August 1966, (ten months BEFORE "Sgt
Pepper") setting us up for a record and cover that had already been
prepared? Was Paul giving us an instruction to look at the LONELY (hearts club)
people a year before we first saw them gathered together? An anagram of
"Ah, look at all the lonely people" is: ALLEN POE, LEO, HALL: LOOK AT
THE "YP". Poe, Leo Gorcey (later removed) and, next to him, Huntz
Hall all appear on the back row of the Sgt Pepper crowd, aligned. If you draw a
line on the Pepper sleeve drum skin that takes you from the "Y" to
the "P" (the one that sits directly below the dead centre of the
cover, which has been cited before by Redwel), and then beyond, it takes you
to.... KARL MARX / HG WELLS Again! When Poe, Hall, the "Y" and the
"P" are connected, it creates a perfect, inverted right-angle
triangle. That means that there are possiblyTHREE markers on Sgt Pepper alone
that take us to Marx/Wells point, as well as those later on "Maxwells
Silver Hammer". Behind the scenes, is it possible that the team that
assembled and steered The Beatles were working at least a year ahead of
schedule?
Which is, I am sure you will agree, a staggering possibility,
but is it one that can be validated in any meaningful way?
Some time ago I wrote about the fact that if you overlay a
compass over the Sgt. Pepper cover, then, at exactly 33°, you will find both Karl Marx
and H.G. Wells, who were both 33° Freemasons. Now, via Karl Townam’s
anagram of ‘Ah, look at all the lonely people’ we can discover another encoded
reference to Marx Wells.
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| 33° Masons at exactly 33° |
If you extend this compass line slightly, down through the
Pepper drum-skin, through the ‘P’ and ‘Y’ of Lonely Hearts we can create an
axis for Karl’s right-sided triangle that is completed through the anagrammatic
list of cast members – Allen Poe, Leo (Gorcey) and (Huntz) Hall.
So, by looking at the all the lonely people, as instructed
by Eleanor Rigby (who lived in a dream a la ‘Yesterday’, which was formed in a
dream), we can find a link to the very people mentioned, albeit
anagrammatically, in the line ‘Ah! Look at all the lonely people’.
Also, if we look again at the extended 33° line we see that it goes
through both ALBERT Stubbins and Huntz HALL – ‘Now They Know How Many holes it
takes to fill the ALBERT HALL’. A line, of course, from ‘A Day in the Life’.
Karl further suggests that there may be a further link with
Marx Wells via the, almost, punning title of ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ (Marx /
Wells Silver Hammer) from the Abbey Road LP. The lyrics to this song mention PC
31; Character 31 from the list of the Pepperati is, of course, Karl Marx. So,
is PC 31 Karl Marx?
‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer’ is a tale about a chap called
Maxwell Edison who has a penchant for killing people by hitting them on the
head with a silver hammer. Interestingly, a short H G Wells story called The
Reconciliation is a tale about a chap called Temple who kills an old friend
by hitting him on the head with a boxing glove filled with a whale bone.
Now, if we draw a line from Wells down to the Shirley TEMPLE
doll, we find it goes through a bloodied glove!
Our friend Karl suggests one more clue that could tie Sgt.
Pepper and Abbey Road together. He suggests that an anagram of ‘Polythene Pam’ is
‘Open the Map YL’. So, if you draw a line from the "Y" and either of
the "L’s" on the centre of the drum skin it follows the same 33° line
again, to Marx/Wells.
Finally, if one should overlay the Abbey Road cover over its Sgt. Pepper counterpart we find the Abbey Road Beatles walking right over the Beatles grave from Sgt. Pepper.
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| Pepper Road - Lonely He Die |
I have long contended that the Sgt. Pepper cover is a
treasure map, but is it really? Well, we shall return to the map thing
henceforth, but, in the meantime, Karl tells me he will be publishing his own
blog entitled It's Getting Very Near the End shortly, that will reveal more of
his exciting discoveries and he is tweeting prolifically @PredictiveBeat
May I suggest that you follow?
