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from Part IV - Political Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 April 2021
If you squinted hard enough in early 1968, you just might be able to make out the faces of the Beatles. There they were, fans thought, in the tree behind Bob Dylan on the cover of his album John Wesley Harding. Dylan put them there, supposedly, as one of a number of clues for how to interpret the surprising, new LP. After all, didn’t the hat in the foreground of the image hide a stash of marijuana? Dylan must be concealing “the psychedelic aroma so exposed and prominent on the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s LP to which John Wesley Harding is a reaction,” playfully claimed Columbia Records staff photographer John Berg, the man who had taken the photograph for the cover of the album.
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