
Sir Peter Blake: What keeps his creativity alive?
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How Did You Choose the Characters Behind the Beetles?
Peter: I had this idea that by working the way we were and this this crowd who had gathered round this fictitious band, could be anybody. The ones that didn't make it were hitler jesus and mamagandy. Is it true that john lenon wanted adolf hitler to be in the back as a joke? He never we did actually make him. It capches something about the late sixties, doesn't it? That image it's sort of sereal. Is full of playfulness, of fantasy, but it's also got a sort of innocence to it as well.
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