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Charles Front is a British illustrator, best known for designing the lettering on the 1965 Beatles album Rubber Soul. He has illustrated several books, including A Child's Bible, Never Say Macbeth, The Great White Whale, The Little Dressmaker and Carbonel and Calidor.
Charles Front. British. Exhibition. Making Music. Modern: Design. for Ear and Eye. Nov 15, 2014–. Jan 18, 2016. MoMA. Licensing. Feedback. British Caption: The Museum of Modern Art Renovation and Expansion Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with Gensler. Photography by Iwan Baan, Courtesy of MoMA.
Aug 1, 2010 · You see, Charles Front was the young illustrator who designed the lettering on The Beatles Rubber Soul album. Back in 1965, Art Director Charles Front was asked by Bob Freeman, the Beatles' photographer, to create artwork for a new album sleeve; Rubber Soul.
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- Rebecca Front’s Dad Designed The ‘Rubber Soul’ Lettering
- Robert Freeman’s Classic Distorted Cover Photo Was A Stroke of Serendipity
- ‘Rubber Soul’ Was The Catalyst That Inspired ‘Pet Sounds’
- The Cassette Version’S Running Order Is Totally Different
- Capitol “Butchered” ‘Rubber Soul’
- John, Paul, George, Ringo.. and Mal
- Rubber Soul Started Life as A ‘Comedy Album’
- “Lukewarm Baby’S Got A Custard Face” – Having Fun in The Studio
- The Sessions Produced The Beatles’ First Instrumental
- The Original Stereo Mix Is Bonkers
‘The Thick of It’ and ‘Lewis’ star Rebecca Front’s father, designer Charles Front was the illustrator who designed the lettering of the ‘Rubber Soul’ album. The design’s history was explained on the Bonhams Auctions website: Front’s original logo sold at auction in 2008 for £9,600. This ‘bubble’ style lettering created by Front would become very fa...
The cover photograph for Rubber Soul was taken in Weybridge by Robert Freeman, who had first worked with The Beatles on the cover of ‘With The Beatles’ in 1963. In his book The Beatles – A Private View, Freeman recalls: Of the stretched photo, Paul McCartney later said:
After hearing ‘Rubber Soul’, Brian Wilson was spurred to compete with Lennon and McCartney. Wilson said: In the same spirit of creative competition, ‘Pet Sounds’ itself inspired the Beatles to aim higher with ‘Sgt. Pepper’. Paul McCartney wrote:
In the 1970s and 1980s, it was common practice for record labels to revise the running order of albums when releasing them on cassette, in order to ensure both sides were of equal length. This usually went no further than transposing a song or two – as Bowie fans who owned the RCA cassettes of ‘Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars’ or ‘Aladdin ...
Capitol Records, the Beatles’ US label, famously carved up the Beatles’ Parlophone albums to create weird mutant albums beefed up with non-album 45s in order to keep the gravy train running and squeeze the Beatles’ early catalogue until the pips squeaked. Although ‘Rubber Soul’ came out in the US at the same time as its’ British counterpart, the Ca...
The Fabs’ road manager Mal Evans played Hammond organ for “You Won’t See Me”. According to our old friend Wikipedia, Mal Evans also contributed harmonica to Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite; alarm clock and piano to A Day in the Life; hand claps to Dear Prudence and Birthday; trumpet to Helter Skelter, anvil to Maxwell’s Silver Hammer; handbell to...
At the time ‘Rubber Soul’ was released McCartney made a comment about it being sort of their comedy album. In webzine Popmatters’ two-hander Counterbalance, Eric Klinger musedon the likelihood of this origin story:
At an Abbey Road studio-rehearsal for George’s song Think For Yourself, recorded on Monday November 8, 1965, George Martin taped the group rehearsing the song. The Beatles were aware of this, deliberately playing up to the microphones. The audio veriterecording, featured on various bootlegs, captures the foursome practising the lyrics and chatting ...
The ‘Rubber Soul’ sessions yielded only one outtake, ’12-Bar Original’, which was The Beatles’ first instrumental since the group signed to EMI in 1962. According to The Beatles Bible: Beatles Rarity Of The Week explains:
The original ’65 stereo mix is absolutely insane, wide panned with all sound either far left or far right and no middle picture. Writer and blogger Andrew Hickey described itas: When the Beatles albums made their CD debut in 1987, the original stereo mixes for “Help!” and “Rubber Soul” were replaced by updated stereo mixes by George Martin because ...
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Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) [a] was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
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