“In 1967, I got this job at Capitol Records as an art director. Capitol signed the Beatles to the label in 1963, and I was a big Beatles fan, so I was on top of the world there. I was bohemian rock ‘n’ roll. Brown Meggs, who’d signed the Beatles to Capitol, told me to make the cover psychedelic, since I knew about psychedelic culture. So I went home, I did it, I came back the next day and it was accepted and printed. The Beatles had these beautiful faces that photographers had been documenting for the last six or seven years. But they were becoming bohemian, so in this picture they covered their faces. They wanted to take their suits off. I had done light shows, and made all these mixes of patterns. I was able to bring that to the cover, so that it was colorful and layered, but still easy to read.”