on Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album Bob Dylan‘s portrait is shown in the top right corner, overlooking the rest of the pack.
Six months Later December 27, 1967 Bob Dylan released the album John Wesley Harding
Some Rumors says Bob Dylan puts the faces of The Beatles on the album cover hidden in the knots on the tree, intentionally
John Berg, the photographer who took the picture, said that the original was made by a Polaroid camera because Dylan had asked for something that “looked like a snapshot.” When asked about the hidden faces, Berg acknowledged their presence but was reluctant to talk about it.
“It’s like Dylan; very mystical,” Berg said. He also spoke about the “hand of God,” which he said was nestling along the right-hand side of the tree. Berg did not wish to say much more; his implication was “Happy Hunting.” – Rolling Stone, 9th March, 1968.
John Berg took this photograph in Woodstock in the yard of Bob Dylan’s manager Albert Grossman
the three people pictured with Dylan (who wears the same jacket he wore for the cover of Blonde On Blonde) are Purna Das, leader of the Bauls of Bengal and Lakhsman Das, another Baul, who were at the time staying in a converted barn on Albert Grossman's property. Sally Grossman, rather helpfully, identified the fourth member of the group: "The guy in the background was Charlie Joy... He was a local carpenter and stonemason who happened to be around that day"</dengreen@ix.netcom.com>
if You look close enough you can see Beatles faces on the tree , Turn the album cover upside down and zoom
here is close look
it can be a little difficult to find them but there are definitely some faces and They are very similar to Beatles band members
when you zoom in more then here below we can it’s more like George or Jesus or Treebeard. ?
Although it seems kinda bogus, Rolling Stone verified it with photographer prior to the album’s release. It is also thought that the faces were much more apparent but brushed over sometime before press time (hence, the unusually dark features on the most prominent tree trunk). When Berg was asked about it in 1995 he said,
Later on, I got a call from Rolling Stone magazine in San Francisco. Someone had discovered little pictures of The Beatles and the hand of Jesus in the tree trunk. Well, I had a proof of the cover on my wall, so I went and turned it upside down and sure enough . . . Hahaha! I mean, if you wanted to see it, you could see it. I was as amazed as anybody.
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