May 17, 2018
“Next week on the 20th of May, I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!”
Julie Andrews as Eliza Dolittle on the cover of Tatler, June 1958. Photograph by Cecil Beaton.
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“Next week on the 20th of May, I proclaim ‘Liza Doolittle Day!”
Julie Andrews as Eliza Dolittle on the cover of Tatler, June 1958. Photograph by Cecil Beaton.
Happy New Year from the Parallel Julieverse
With STAR! celebrating its 50th Golden Anniversary, 2018 promises to be a “genuine, positive, totally marvellous, perfectly wonderful” year!
May your holidays be chic, unique and quite adorable!
Move over, Gal Gadot...sorry, Lynda Carter...the real Wonder Woman is in town!
Julie Andrews Fantasy LPs #10
Unless you’ve been living under a rock you will surely have heard that The Beatles classic 1967 LP, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – described by no less an authority than Rolling Stone magazine as “the most important rock & roll album ever made” – is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary . News outlets around the world from The Guardian to The New York Times to The Sydney Morning Herald, have carried stories about the album and offered fulsome appraisals of its historical significance. The album has even managed to find its way back to the top of the charts, courtesy of a new special anniversary re-release.
Without doubt, an integral part of Sgt. Pepper’s legendary aura is its iconic cover art. Created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake, the design was an homage to the era’s burgeoning pop art movement with a pyschedelic composite shot of the Fab Four dressed in fluorescent Northern-style brass band uniforms posing in front of a cut-out collage of 57 celebrities. Drawn from across the fields of film, art, sports, politics, science, and philosophy, the famous faces in the collage were all selected on the basis of some significance for The Beatles and/or their cultural milieu. The innovative design won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover in 1967 and it has been an influential pop cultural landmark ever since.
Indeed, it’s claimed that Sgt Pepper’s is the single most imitated album cover of all time. Starting with Frank Zappa’s early homage the very next year in 1968, the Sgt Pepper’s cover has been cited, recreated and parodied countless times in everything from Mad Magazine and Bloomberg Business to Stars Wars and The Simpsons.
As far as is known, however, Sgt Pepper’s has yet to be given the ultimate tribute: a Julie Andrews makeover…but that is now set to change! So lend me your ears and the Parallel Julieverse will sing you a song about tangerine trees and marmalade skies and Julie in the sky with diamonds…we hope you will enjoy the show!
How about that upset at the Oscars last night?!
Happy holidays from the Parallel Julieverse!
Fa la la la la, la la la la….. Happy holidays from the Parallel Julieverse