THE BEATLES Help LP - signed by Robert Freeman - John Lennon
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THE BEATLES Help! LP . This is a first US stereo pressing of this album. This copy is signed and dated by Robert Freeman on the bottom right (see picture). The cover and vinyl are in great shape. Please use the "enlarge" option to inspect the autograph and everything else! I am selling a great little collection of Beatles rarities, including some autographs. see my other auctions.
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Robert Freeman (born 1936) is a photographer and graphics designer who is best-known for his work with the Beatles, shooting some of the band's most recognizable images featured on several of their album covers. From 1963-1966, he worked extensively with the group and did the photography and design on five of the their album sleeves released consecutively on the Parlophone label in the UK, as well as on several albums on Capitol Records in the US and on various labels in other countries. Freedman designed the end credit sequences for the Beatles' first two films and some of the graphics and photography displayed on the films' posters and promotional materials.
He worked as a film director on the rarely seen Swinging London cult film The Touchables in 1968, which starred Judy Huxtable and David Anthony, and featured music by the original Nirvana.
Freeman first came to prominence as a photo journalist working for the British newspaper The Sunday Times – for which he photographed a variety of subjects including Nikita Khrushchev in the Kremlin. He had also become noted for his black-and-white photographs of several jazz musicians including John Coltrane. It was these photographs that impressed the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein and the Beatles themselves and led to his first commission in August 1963 to photograph the group. He was selected to photograph the entirety of the first-ever Pirelli Calendar – shot in 1963 for the year 1964.
The Help album cover features the group spelling out a word in semaphore; the British Parlophone release featured the word 'NUJV', whilst the slightly re-arranged US release on Capitol Records appeared to feature the word 'NVUJ'. However, it may be argued that some of the members of the band were not only re-arranged but reversed as well.
The following semaphore characters show the correct spelling of "HELP" as seen if facing the flagman:
H
E
L
P
However, the truth is the photo does not spell any message at all in semaphore. Robert Freeman confirms this: "I had the idea of semaphore spelling out the letters HELP. But when we came to do the shot the arrangement of the arms with those letters didn't look good. So we decided to improvise and ended up with the best graphic positioning of the arms."
The Beatles ?– Help! (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Genre:
Rock, Stage & Screen
Style:
Soundtrack, Rock & Roll
Year:
1965
Tracklist
–The Beatles Help! 2:35 –The Beatles The Night Before 2:33 –George Martin And His Orchestra From Me To You Fantasy 2:03 –The Beatles You've Got To Hide Your Love Away 2:08 –The Beatles I Need You 2:28 –George Martin And His Orchestra In The Tyrol 2:21 –The Beatles Another Girl 2:02 –George Martin And His Orchestra Another Hard Day's Night 2:28 –The Beatles Ticket To Ride 3:03 –George Martin And His Orchestra The Bitter End / You Can't Do That 2:20 –The Beatles You're Gonna Lose That Girl 2:18 –George Martin And His Orchestra The Chase 2:24price rating
