You people know how much I think David Dexter should have his own section in Hell, but the classic Capitol Record rainbow label is 1) a fantastic design 2) a musical Proustian moment for me since as I Sgt. Pepper was the first non-Romper Room or Disco Duck record I ever remember looking at, having found it leaning up against a record player in the back room of the library my mother worked at.
Since of course like any real Beatles fan I make sure all my albums are from the original British Parlophone label I don't have a Capitol version of Sgt. Pepper thank you very much, but I Am the Walrus was recorded just a couple months after Sgt. Pepper and the Magical Mystery Tour LP only comes out on Capitol so I had to buy it....listening right now brings me back to finding Sgt. Pepper in that back room & then hearing it for the first time; while it would still take me a decade or two to grow up & fall in love with their music, I always consider that moment in the back room of the library to be the first step I took to get there.
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