Auction Date:2012 Jan 26 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Original Diana Dors waxwork bust as seen on the cover of The Beatles' landmark album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Made by Madame Tussauds in London, the bust measures 24.5 inches high and weighs 16 pounds. The base and arms were removed for exhibit some years ago. In fine condition, with expected age wear, and make-up slightly retouched. Bust comes with a 12 x 12 x 12 display stand, with a total combined weight of 31 pounds. The bust was originally sold in a 2005 Cooper Owen auction in London, along with wax busts of John Lennon, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison used for the cover shoot.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a worldwide critical and commercial success immediately upon release on June 1, 1967, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK album chart and 15 weeks at #1 on the US Billboard magazine album chart. A defining album in the emerging psychedelic rock style, the album won four Grammy awards in 1968. In 1994, it was ranked #1 in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums. In 2003, the album was placed at number one on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, and is one of the world's best-selling albums, having shipped 32 million copies.
The voluptuous figure of actress Diana Dors is certainly one of the most prominent figures on the cover and this waxwork was one of the few used that was chosen by the Beatles and the album cover's designer, Peter Blake. The stunning, life-size figure was borrowed from Madame Tussauds for the album cover shoot at Michael Cooper's studio on March 30, 1967. Dors’ distinctive face and blonde locks, in a gold dress and white gloves, appeared amongst 73 other historical figures from around the world, including Oscar Wilde, James Dean, Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, Shirley Temple, and Marlon Brando, to name but a few. Most importantly, Dors is featured more prominently than the woman she was often compared with, Marilyn Monroe, whose head appears in the center, second row. The unlikely attention it attracted launched Dors’ return to recognition as an actress. This is truly a one-of-a-kind piece of Rock and Roll history.
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