ON THE RECORD
I’D LOVE TO TURN YOU ON
This piece captures The Beatles as an ever-expanding universe—centered on their iconic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band collage, then pushed outward into a living ecosystem of influence, memory, and myth.
Built on vintage vinyl, the composition reimagines that original crowd as something more personal and more surreal—pulling in the people, muses, collaborators, and cultural echoes that orbit the band’s story.
Titled “I’d Love to Turn You On,” the last lyrics on Sgt. Pepper’sfinal track - A Day In The Life - that paints a picture of dreaming, awakening and sensory overload.
Ed Sullivan
Bobbies holding back Apple Scruffs
The Magical Walrus and friends
The lads stair dancing to “Your Mother Should Know”
Matt Busby
Ravi Shankar
Jane Asher
Maureen Starkey
A Blue Meanie
B.B. King
An octopus with garden flowers
Mr. Kite (from the original circus poster)
All of the Beatles’ album cover designers
Paul on a hill watching the sun going down
A Yellow Submarine
…and more!
Yoko Ono
Linda McCartney
George Martin
Brian Epstein
Billy Preston
Martha “My Dear” (Paul’s sheepdog)
“Dear” Prudence Farrow
Julian “Jude” Lennon
Julia Lennon
“Mother” Mary McCartney
Eric Clapton (his guitar gently wept)
A hiding monkey
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The Rutles
Doris Day
Paul’s troublemaking “Grandfather”
Embedded throughout the collage: