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Irix
Did Alan Aldridge actually ever made a remark about his Day-Tripper-Illustration and the US-Version of the RS-Logo?
Because Alan Aldridge should see the vast similarities at a first glance. Or was his viewpoint: "Imitation is the highest form of recognition" ?
Pity that Alan Aldridge doesn't live anymore ....
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GasLightStreet
There's also the aspect of:
Pasche didn't see that Beatles art.
Mick did... and kept his mouth shut.
All the others involved kept their mouths shut.
Pasche kept his mouth shut.
Then again, to my knowledge, no one from The Beatles, overall, ever said anything.
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GasLightStreet
There's also the aspect of:
Pasche didn't see that Beatles art.
Mick did... and kept his mouth shut.
All the others involved kept their mouths shut.
Pasche kept his mouth shut.
Then again, to my knowledge, no one from The Beatles, overall, ever said anything.
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GasLightStreet
There's also the aspect of:
Pasche didn't see that Beatles art.
Mick did... and kept his mouth shut.
All the others involved kept their mouths shut.
Pasche kept his mouth shut.
Then again, to my knowledge, no one from The Beatles, overall, ever said anything.
Well well, that is a "nice" bit of speculation!
I'll add some more:
When Aldridge was asked to do some artwork connected to the 1968 Rock and Roll Circus project, he, once having made some interesting things, tried to rip off Mick (the Stones), so he was shut out from the project
After AA's book was published Mick saw it and liked the ice licking girl and made up the "Kali story" to Pasche (assuming Pasche, as a young starting artist, would quite likely have seen AA's book too) by way of revenge.
Pasche made "his version" (among many others) based on the ice licking girl, send it to Braun and made sure Braun would get hold of AA's book, so from there on the USA logo version found life. Ernie found out about that and pinched the underlying idea to make "his version" and started a war with Braun. The Beatles were paid a fortune to keep their mouths shut, because "everybody" already "knew" that the Stones logo was going to become a huge success
It all fits in with CaptainCorella's historic knowledge, so why not.
Aaaggghh, what a load of crap that is ...
I'd say: Let's stick to the known facts and go on from there
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CaptainCorella
How can you possibly state with such certainty that Pasche didn't see the Aldridge book? I know (because I had already graduated from university in 1969 when it was published and could afford to buy things like that) that when it (the book) was first published it got an IMMMENSE amount of publicity and it would have been hugely contrary for anyone studying contemporary art and design and/or illustration at the time not to have looked at it. So Pasche might well have seen it.
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CaptainCorella
How can you possibly state with such certainty that Pasche didn't see the Aldridge book? I know (because I had already graduated from university in 1969 when it was published and could afford to buy things like that) that when it (the book) was first published it got an IMMMENSE amount of publicity and it would have been hugely contrary for anyone studying contemporary art and design and/or illustration at the time not to have looked at it. So Pasche might well have seen it.
It looks to me like Pasche's design is his own. He probably did see the Beatles illustrated lyrics book, but his design isn't a copy of the illustration in the book.
But Braun's redrawn version of it looks for all the world like a close copy of the mouth of the girl in the Aldridge illustration, done in the style of the Pasche design.
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GasLightStreet
There's also the aspect of:
Pasche didn't see that Beatles art.
Mick did... and kept his mouth shut.
All the others involved kept their mouths shut.
Pasche kept his mouth shut.
Then again, to my knowledge, no one from The Beatles, overall, ever said anything.
How can you possibly state with such certainty that Pasche didn't see the Aldridge book? I know (because I had already graduated from university in 1969 when it was published and could afford to buy things like that) that when it (the book) was first published it got an IMMMENSE amount of publicity and it would have been hugely contrary for anyone studying contemporary art and design and/or illustration at the time not to have looked at it. So Pasche might well have seen it.
Likewise, how can you state with similar certainty that Mick (Jagger?) did see it. He quite probably did, but those were tumultuous times and he may not have?
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CaptainCorella
How can you possibly state with such certainty that Pasche didn't see the Aldridge book? I know (because I had already graduated from university in 1969 when it was published and could afford to buy things like that) that when it (the book) was first published it got an IMMMENSE amount of publicity and it would have been hugely contrary for anyone studying contemporary art and design and/or illustration at the time not to have looked at it. So Pasche might well have seen it.
It looks to me like Pasche's design is his own. He probably did see the Beatles illustrated lyrics book, but his design isn't a copy of the illustration in the book.
But Braun's redrawn version of it looks for all the world like a close copy of the mouth of the girl in the Aldridge illustration, done in the style of the Pasche design.