Fags are bad. We know this. They make your clothes smell like ashtrays and your breath toxic. Kiss a girl who's just had a fag and you may as well have tongued the back end of a donkey: the two are comparably rank. So, why the need for record companies to cover up the fact that their bands, y'know, enjoyed a puff?
EMI have doctored the cover of a forthcoming, re-issued Beatles compilation, Capitol Albums Volume 2. The original cover image features the Fab Four having a drag or two to pass the time, but the powers that be, they're not standing for it. Cue: Photoshop in all its glory. Only, they've cocked up rather, slicing two fingers from the hand of drummer Ringo Starr (pictured in thee ol' daze).
EMI have done this before, doctoring the artwork of Abbey Road for a re-release in 2003. More recently, posters advertising the Arctic Monkeys' debut album were changed to feature an image different to the record sleeve itself, which features a gentleman having a cigarette.
DiScuss: Why should anyone care that The Beatles liked a cigarette? After all, smoking gave Ringo tones soothing enough to voice Thomas The Tank Engine, and that shit is ILL.
This goes back to a point about
fags and censorship I made a few weeks back - i was right then!
sort of.
This is laughable.
Whatever your opinion of smoking, the idea that you can re-write history is ludicrous in the extreme (and more than a little disturbing). I suppose someone will be employed to airbrush out all Humphrey Bogart's cigarettes in his entire body of work. The Beatles were all heavy smokers at least up until their thirties and did loads of drugs. There- I said it!
Who has the right...
...to change history, literally. If theyr'e going to airbrush the sex and drugs from the rock and roll, maybe the Bbc/whoever, should delve into the Sgt Pepper album and take out every reference to drugs, fags and sex... It would then look something like this...
Lovely rita and Eleanor Rigby are leaving hoooooome!
PEDANTICISM
Eleanor Rigby? On Sgt. Pepper? Sorry...
closing the door
after the horse has bolted...
The rerelease of "off the wall"
Has a mobile phone photoshopped into jacko's hand. Mental.
Phew!!
Good job EMI went through all that trouble...
Cause when ALL OF THE YOUTH OF TODAY buy this album...they are sooooo gonna smoke because the beatles did!
Edit:
*had emi not airbrushed out the fags
....
youth of today would never smoke. spesh not cappo........ no no never.
Phtoshop is an evil tool in the wrong hands
expecially that of The Sun.
Everyone knows the real use for photoshop is to get a photo of one of your mates and superimpose a cock to their forehead.
This saved my life.
If I'd have seen this cover of my favourite band smoking, I probably would have taken it up.
:@
Truly pointless
I mean...
TRULY pointless
i would like to kiss a girl who has just had a fag
i suspect it would give me teh horn.
Erm
The youth of today? That'd be me. (15). Anyone with brains doesn't smoke. People who want to smoke either because they like it (?!) or because they're a chav and it makes them look tuff.
Not because the Beatles did..
(However, maybe we'll start chopping our fingers off to look like Ringo now..)
Hu the hell...
are the baetles?
why?
..because you're fools who think The Beatles matter to anyone but babyboomers.