Stanlio

Exhaustive.

On the podium for sure

Ah, there's no denying it!!

In my opinion, small lysergic elements were already present in Rubber Soul (Norwegian Wood, Nowhere Man, Girl, If I Needed Someone, not to mention the cover), not to mention that Rubber Soul was their first album conceived as a single work rather than a collection of individual tracks.

Cover characters and objects:
Starting from the top row, from left, we have: Sri Yukteswar (guru), Aleister Crowley (occultist), Mae West (actress), Lenny Bruce (comedian), Karlheinz Stockhausen (avant-garde composer), W.C. Fields (comedian), Carl Gustav Jung (psychiatrist), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), Fred Astaire (dancer and actor), Richard Merkin (American contemporary painter), a "Varga Girl" (illustration by Alberto Vargas), Huntz Hall (actor), Simon Rodia (creator of the Watts Towers), and Bob Dylan (musician). The empty space between the "Varga Girl" and Hall was originally occupied by Leo Gorcey, who was later removed for asking for a monetary payment.

Reconstruction of the cover at the Beatles Museum, Liverpool:
In the second row, we find: Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator and 19th-century dandy), Sir Robert Peel (politician), Aldous Huxley (writer), Dylan Thomas (poet), Terry Southern (writer), Dion DiMucci (singer), Tony Curtis (actor), Wallace Berman (artist), Tommy Handley (comedian), Marilyn Monroe (actress), William Burroughs (writer), Sri Mahavatar Babaji (guru), Stan Laurel (comedian), Richard Lindner (artist), Oliver Hardy (comedian), Karl Marx (political philosopher), Herbert George Wells (writer), Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (guru), Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst), and the profile of an anonymous person.

In the third row: former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe, another anonymous person, Max Miller (comedian), the Petty Girl (by artist George Petty), Marlon Brando (actor), Tom Mix (actor), Oscar Wilde (writer), Tyrone Power (actor), Larry Bell (artist), David Livingstone (explorer), Johnny Weissmuller (actor), Stephen Crane (writer), James Dean (actor), Issy Bonn (comedian), George Bernard Shaw (writer), Horace Clifford Westermann (sculptor), Albert Stubbins (Liverpool footballer), Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru), Lewis Carroll (writer), Lawrence of Arabia.

Finally, in the front row: the wax statue of Sonny Liston (boxer), another Petty Girl, the wax statues of George Harrison and John Lennon, Shirley Temple (actress), the wax statues of Ringo Starr and Paul McCartney, Albert Einstein (scientist), the four Beatles, Bobby Breen (singer), Marlene Dietrich (actress), an American soldier, Diana Dors (actress), Shirley Temple (for the second time).
Above Dors's head, the face of Gandhi was originally present but was excluded at the behest of Sir Joseph Lockwood, EMI executive, concerned about potential negative repercussions in the Indian market.

Several characters that had initially been chosen did not appear in the final collage. Among them, Brigitte Bardot, René Magritte, Alfred Jarry, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jesus Christ, and Adolf Hitler, the last two omitted for fear of causing controversy.

Anyway, I would have placed Rubber Soul in first place. Sgt. Pepper in third.

Disc 1 Side A (October 1962 - May 1964):
Love Me Do – 2:23
Please Please Me – 2:03
From Me to You – 1:57
She Loves You – 2:22
I Want to Hold Your Hand – 2:26
All My Loving – 2:08
Can't Buy Me Love – 2:13

Disc 1 Side B (June 1964 - August 1965):
A Hard Day's Night – 2:34
And I Love Her – 2:31
Eight Days a Week – 2:45
I Feel Fine – 2:19
Ticket to Ride – 3:10
Yesterday – 2:05

Disc 2 Side A (August 1965 - December 1965):
Help! – 2:19, - 2:48 (US), (the American version contains the intro of the James Bond soundtrack)
You've Got to Hide Your Love Away – 2:11
We Can Work It Out – 2:16
Day Tripper – 2:49
Drive My Car – 2:27
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) – 2:05

Disc 2 Side B (December 1965 - August 1966):
Nowhere Man – 2:44
Michelle – 2:42
In My Life – 2:27
Girl – 2:31
Paperback Writer – 2:31
Eleanor Rigby – 2:08
Yellow Submarine – 2:37

All tracks were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted.

Disc 1 Side A (February 1967 - September 1967):
Strawberry Fields Forever – 4:10
Penny Lane – 3:03
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band – 2:02
With a Little Help from My Friends – 2:44
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – 3:28
A Day in the Life – 5:33
All You Need Is Love – 3:48

Disc 1 Side B (October 1967 - October 1968):
I Am the Walrus – 4:37
Hello Goodbye – 3:31
The Fool on the Hill – 3:00
Magical Mystery Tour – 2:51
Lady Madonna – 2:17
Hey Jude – 7:08
Revolution – 3:24

Disc 2 Side A (November 1968 - August 1969):
Back in the U.S.S.R. – 2:43
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Harrison) – 4:45
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – 3:05
Get Back – 3:14
Don't Let Me Down – 3:33
The Ballad of John and Yoko – 3:05
Old Brown Shoe (Harrison) – 3:18

Disc 2 Side B (September 1969 - May 1970):
Here Comes the Sun (Harrison) – 3:05
Come Together – 4:20
Something (Harrison) – 3:03
Octopus's Garden (Starkey) – 2:51
Let It Be – 3:52 (modified from the original version of 4:01)
Across the Universe – 3:48
The Long and Winding Road – 3:38

Well, they have their own tastes too.

Anyway, the story of the cover has always made me laugh (at least, I think it's true, the story of the American Indian/Indians).

*Native Americans

I don't know anything about it, Mady, what's the story?

Basically, Hendrix asked for artwork that evoked Indians; he meant the Native Americans, but those working on the artwork thought he was referring to Indians, and thus ended up with the artwork we all know, by chance completely in line with the "spirit" of the time.

The album that the Traffic also played on, no less.