Klaus recalled the presentation of the finished artifact. I think that photo was taken in Hamburg.” “There was one picture where Paul was sitting on a toilet. I had a few strange ones where John was pulling a face, or Paul was laughing, but in general, the photos show their sweet side.” That’s why the picture is at a funny angle. “The photo of Ringo with the funny striped shirt on,” remembers Voormann, “that was cut out of a magazine, from a picture of a girl who had that poster on her wall. Our handiwork was later superimposed onto (the) line drawing by Klaus Voormann.” I could not get his face right, so eventually I took a newspaper and cut those eyes and mouth out.”Įven though Freeman’s cover design was rejected, one of his photos became the centrepiece of Voormann’s design.Īccording to Pete Shotton the cover was finished in Lennon’s home, at Kenwood: “John, Paul, and I devoted an evening to sifting through an enormous pile of newspapers and magazines for pictures of the Beatles after which we cut out the faces and glued them all together. It was easier with John, Paul and Ringo, but George was always the problem. “ George‘s face was very difficult to draw. “I drew the faces from memory,” continues Voormann in Mojo.
He than made the line-drawing of the four faces. I just went to see them with that piece of paper folded up in my pocket and that was enough!” “I did a scribble piece on a big A2 layout sheet of paper, with lots of different sketches of the little heads, in felt pen. “I wanted to push the design further than normal,” he told Martin O’Gorman in 2006. After hearing some tracks, he decided that the cover should reflect the same avant-garde feel. Klaus Voormann, an old friend from Hamburg, who recently had moved to London, was asked to design the cover. You can buy Robert Freeman’s book of Beatles photos, “A Private View” through Amazon. Freeman and the group amiably ended their association. The montage is reproduced in The Beatles Anthology book.įreeman’s design, here presented as a USA edition of the album.īecause Freeman was going to turn his first movie, in 1966, it was the last time the Beatles used his services. When you would spin the sleeve, the four faces would melt into one. Robert Freeman proposed making a photo montage using the Beatles’ four faces for the Revolver sleeve.