Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite

Poster Size: 25 inch in Length X 12 inch wide with ½ inch border for matt and framing.

John Lennon purchased the 19th-centruy circus poster for Pablo Fanque’s Circus Royal in an antique store in 1967, while the Beatles were filming Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane. Everything in the Beatles song was adapted from the poster, except the name of the horse was not Henry, but Zanthus. What is The “hogshead of real fire” ? A colloquial term for a barrel set alight. One of the most musically complex songs from Sgt. Pepper, the Abbey Road production team used a harmonium of wobbly tapes of vintage Victorian calliopes and the Hammond organ to create the song’s famous kaleidoscopic wash of sound.