Just when you think you know everything there is to know about The Beatles, Neatorama runs a post with a few cool stories behind different Beatles album covers. I especially love this one about HELP!, a film and album which already hold so many cool memories for me:
For the HELP! photo shoot, photographer Robert Freeman warmed up by shooting publicity stills of the band playing around in the Austrian snow. In the process, he realized that their arm motions reminded him of semaphore, a system of emergency naval communications using waving flags. Because the album title was conveniently four characters long, the photographer had each member of the group spell out a letter using the code. However, Freeman found that the arm motions for H-E-L-P were much less aesthetically pleasing than the positions for N-U-J-V, so he decided to use those letters instead.
Read more stories behind the covers for The White Album, Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road at This Link.
When I was a scout at a young age I learned semaphore and took a test where we had to send and receive messages using the code. It sure isn’t very fast!
“John, Paul … “
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N-U-J-V isn’t a new Myers-Briggs code, is it?