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Between 1978 and 2006 [28 years!] there were a number of legal disputes between Apple Corps (owned by The Beatles) and the computer manufacturer Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.) over competing trademark rights. The High Court of Justice  handed down a judgment on the 8th of May 2006 in favour of Apple Computer, but the companies didn’t announce a final settlement until 5 February 2007.
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On 5 February 2007, Apple Inc. and Apple Corps announced a settlement of their trademark dispute under which Apple Inc. will own all of the trademarks related to “Apple” and will license certain of those trademarks back to Apple Corps for their continued use. The settlement ends the ongoing trademark lawsuit between the companies, with each party bearing its own legal costs, and Apple Inc. will continue using its name and logos on iTunes. The settlement includes terms that are confidential, although newspaper accounts at the time stated that Apple Computer was buying out Apple Corps’ trademark rights for a total of $500 million U.S. [***]

# Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru) # Aleister Crowley (occultist) # Mae West (actress) # Lenny Bruce (comedian) # Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer) # W. C. Fields (comedian/actor) # Carl Gustav Jung (psychologist) # Edgar Allan Poe (writer)

* Fred Astaire (actor/dancer) * Richard Merkin (artist) * The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas) * Huntz Hall (actor) * Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers) * Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)

# Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator) # Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister) # Aldous Huxley (writer) # Dylan Thomas (poet) # Terry Southern (writer) # Dion (singer) # Tony Curtis (actor) # Wallace Berman (artist) # Tommy Handley (comedian)

# Marilyn Monroe (actress) # William S. Burroughs (writer) # Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru) # Stan Laurel (actor/comedian) # Richard Lindner (artist) # Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian) # Karl Marx (political philosopher) # H. G. Wells (writer) # Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru) # Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan # Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)

# Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle) # Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy) # Max Miller (comedian) # A “Petty Girl” (by artist George Petty) # Marlon Brando (actor) # Tom Mix (actor) # Oscar Wilde (writer) # Tyrone Power (actor) # Larry Bell (artist) # Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)

# Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor) # Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between Issy Bonn’s head and raised arm # Issy Bonn (comedian) # George Bernard Shaw (playwright) # H. C. Westermann (sculptor) # Albert Stubbins (soccer player) # Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru) # Lewis Carroll (writer) # T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)

# Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer) # A “Petty Girl” (by George Petty) # Wax model of George Harrison # Wax model of John Lennon # Shirley Temple (child actress) - barely visible, first of three appearances on the cover # Wax model of Ringo Starr # Wax model of Paul McCartney # Albert Einstein (physicist) - largely obscured #A Fukusuke, Japanese china figure #A stone figure of Snow White

# Bobby Breen (singer) # Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer) # An American legionnaire # Diana Dors (actress) # Shirley Temple (child actress) - second appearance on the cover # Cloth doll by Haworth of Shirley Temple wearing a sweater that reads “Welcome The Rolling Stones”

sgt pepper’s // Art-directed by Robert Fraser, designed by Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, and photographed by Michael Cooper.

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