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Beatles Abbey Road cigarette airbrushed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2681219.stm

Bascially, "they" are airbrushing out the fag in McCartneys hand on the cover for posters of the album in the U.S.

Is this acceptable?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

On the cover of Abbey Road, sorry.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

haha, does Bloomberg have something to do with this?

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yes it is. can they wipe the music out next?

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:26 (twenty-three years ago)

they should put a dildo in his hand instead.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:29 (twenty-three years ago)

haha Julio is on fire!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

That's sort of like airburshing out the sponge on my Spongebob Squarepants poster for fear that someone may think he's a contraceptive sponge.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Soon they will airbrush in a product of some kind that's paid to be on the cover, but lots of people will be all "what's not to like? If you enjoy the product, then you'll enjoy seeing it on the cover of Abbey Road, and if you don't enjoy it just don't look, you still have the music" and then I will retreat into my cave to scrape the dried froth from mine beard

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

yuk.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I know, the thought of John D. with a beard, horrible.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't get why this is "politically correct"? In my young day PC was about respecting women and ethnic minorities and not being homophobic. All of which strike me as highly worthy.

When did "political correctness" start to mean crap like this?

― phil jones (interstar), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Think about the implication of the words "political" and "correct" joined together in a phrase. Sheesh, how could that ever be a good thing?

Politically correct impulse is to censor the controversial in order to please the sensibility of a certain group, in this case anti-smokers.

― Paula G., Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah but by that token the words "political" and "incorrect" could never be a good thing either.

Use of 'PC' here is just lazy BBC Online writing.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

They would have a tough time doing such a photo touch up on some of those classic jazz photos, considering pretty much everyone usually has a cig.

It would be even more difficult with those pictures of Peter Tosh with those gigantic spliffs. Maybe they could turn it into a raw carrot or some celery?

― earlnash, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Daddy, daddy, why's that man's carrot burning?

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe they can take Brian Jones out of old Stones photos, because the idea that someone is dead might offend the living?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:27 (twenty-three years ago)

More likely that as part of some anti-drug campaign they'll photoshop in some pictures of his bloated body floating in the swimming pool.

― Jesse Fox (Jesse Fox), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Jesse you've solved it! 1) Photoshop George's cancer eaten face and lungs onto McCartney's cigarrette-smoking body. 2) Put McCartney's head on Harrison's nonsmoking body. 3) The car that's about to run them down in the crosswalk -- change *that* to an SUV driven by terrorists.

― Paula G., Wednesday, 22 January 2003 18:42 (twenty-three years ago)

This cigarette airbrushing thing has happened before. With their very first US picture sleeve, I seem to remember.

Yes, here we are:
http://www.rarebeatles.com/photospg/band45.htm
http://www.rarebeatles.com/sleeves/pshand84.jpg

― harveyw (harveyw), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:05 (twenty-three years ago)

But y'know, if there wasn't a worldwide conspiracy by big tobacco, why did the Beatles (esp. Dead Paul) pose for so many photos smoke-in-hand?
I mean, even back then, you didn't smoke 24 hours a day.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:22 (twenty-three years ago)

why did the Beatles (esp. Dead Paul) pose for so many photos smoke-in-hand?

Smoking was considered cool then. A valid photographic prop as well - something to do with your hands. Plus inhaling in shot would make a face more well defined. Like what Momus and Jarvis Cocker do in every shot except they don't use cigarettes.

― David (David), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Jarvis wears an eyepatch?

― Paula G., Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:32 (twenty-three years ago)

right cuz (Dead)Paul was chubby, so he had to suck in to erase multiple chins. Too bad they didn't have the digital trickery back then that we do today.
Maybe some swarthy photshopper could make Chubby Checker slim, because obesity is a serious problem for America's Kids. Esp. the lardos.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:34 (twenty-three years ago)

It would be interesting to see what they'd do to clean up the "butcher cover" version of Yesterday and Today.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

text from the bottom right-hand back cover of my vinyl copy of rubber soul: "Use new EMITEX record cleaner. The use of NEW EMITEX provides an effective means of ensuring groove cleanliness so essential to good reproduction. Its regular use will lengthen the life of the record and reduce the static change. Available from Record Dealers."

History was not changed when this piece of product placement by EMI was removed from the original sleeve design: nor is the fact of its presence lost to history yet.

The trademark of the Gramophone Co. is a big pound sign.

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

"swarthy photshopper"...wait, isn't that Chubby Checker's real name?

― Paula G., Wednesday, 22 January 2003 19:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought this would be the thread where we posted Meatls album covers and press photos. :-(

― Adam A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:28 (twenty-three years ago)

This cigarette airbrushing thing has happened before. With their very first US picture sleeve, I seem to remember.
Yeah...the airbrushed picture looks lame now. His hand is just 'there' not doing anything

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 20:51 (twenty-three years ago)

course the best beatle-smoking-on-a-beatles-album-cover
shot is the one of george his-self off of 'a hard day's night'
where he looks like he's reeeeeeaaaaally loving smoking it
and he looks cool as all the fucks. better still some may argue
is macca on 'rubber soul's reverse in a positive *haze* of
what, john player no.5's ? again, cool as the fuck he looks.

pictures of beatles smoking sell records.

― piscesboy, Thursday, 23 January 2003 03:31 (twenty-three years ago)

cigarettes were also erased from the covers of Simon & Garfunkel and Springsteen box sets.

― colin mcelligatt, Thursday, 23 January 2003 03:43 (twenty-three years ago)

maybe someday, if we lose the war with Iraq, smoking will be airbrushed IN to our popular iconography.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 23 January 2003 04:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd like to see a Butcher cover photoshopped with Ned on it. Now that's my sort of revisionism

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 23 January 2003 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Jody to thread!

Maybe they could do what they did with Adam Clayton's willie on Achtung Baby and just superimpose a big shamrock over the offending cig.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Thursday, 23 January 2003 04:35 (twenty-three years ago)

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