Horrifying Rejected McCartney LP Cover

[Ron Maels Moustache]

https://www.stereogum.com/2257275/vinyl-artwork-rejected-by-paul-mccartney-for-being-too-unflattering-is-being-auctioned-for-charity/news/

For over a decade, the Secret 7″ project has raised money for charity by auctioning off limited-edition vinyl records featuring new, exclusive artwork from artists all over the world, paired up with songs by some iconic musicians. The project was relaunched by War Child in 2023 after a couple years away, and Paul McCartney is a participant, offering up limited-edition copies of "Pipes Of Peace." Each of the seven songs selected by the project every year receives 100 different pieces of artwork, but one piece of artwork was apparently too much for the McCartney camp.
Wilfrid Wood, a London sculptor and illustrator who seems to be quite successful in his field, created an original piece and submitted it to the project, but per an Instagram post, his contribution this year "was BANNED by Macca and the gang because it was TOO UNFLATTERING." But Wood is auctioning off his sculpture anyway, and all the proceeds will go to War Child UK.

I suspect Sir Macca turned it down on the grounds that it's sheer bloody nightmare fuel. I mean, sweet Jesus, imagine having this thing staring at you from among your boutique vinyls.

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It gives me "final scene from Society" vibes. I just imagine that no matter how many times you try and dispose of it down the chazza or chuck it in the bin it would just mysteriously turn up back on the shelf again, leering away like nothing had happened.

[extraordinary walnuts]

[Cleveland Steamer]

it looks like David Dickinson

[Endicott]

Rodney Bewes

[dontpaintyourteeth]

Jan Svankmajer's ANGELA LANSBURY

[GoblinAhFuckScary]

sickest macca funkopop

[Icehaven]

Definitely inspired by BN Biscuits.

[BJBMK2]

Quuuuuaid...start the reeeeeaaaactoor....

[dr beat]

On my phone so struggling to post photos but brings to mind that rendition of Kevin Keegan on Blue Peter.

[JesusAndYourBush]

It looks like Macca's Bake-Off 'make a cake of the person you admire most' Showstopper.  Pru loved the caramel rum-infused nose and he got a Hollywood Hand Shandy for the chocolate ganache hair.

[BJBMK2]

Clearly inspired by this:

[Ferris]

Another quality avatar gone begging.

[idunnosomename]

Amazed this only fetched £1,355 for a very good cause.

[Glebe]

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"Let's go fly a kite..."

[checkoutgirl]

Presumably whoever gave that artist the money did it with express instructions to burn this abomination post haste. Don't throw it away. Burn it. If you throw it away somebody might find it again.

It's a clever way to get publicity for the artist but a double edged sword because the piece is so hideous it's hardly a good advertisement.

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I like it, he's got the eyebrows and the jowls just right.

[jobotic]

I quite like it too but if someone did a portrait of me and it looked anything like that I'd run upstairs and throw myself onto my bed, sobbing my little heart out.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

BANNED

brexit was for nothing it seems

[Pete23]

Looks like his real teeth.

[ajsmith2]

Steadman married Jane Asher of course.

[extraordinary walnuts]

hat fucked!

[Butchers Blind]

I don't know what Sir Paul was getting upset about. He's 80, everyone looks fucked at that age.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

bowsers going to be hopping mad when he comes home and sees the heating was left on in the castle and the thwomps all melted

[Video Game Fan 2000]

now we know how many thwomps it takes to fill the albert hall

[The Mollusk]

[madhair60]

it is funny but it would be much funnier if we edited in Hans and the medium fry up guy and the hole pointing folks and all that stupid fucking shit and just kept posting it ad nauseum for years and years

[lazyhour]

To be fair it's pretty funny without that.

[BJBMK2]

Steadman married Jane Asher of course.

Gerald Scarfe, silly billy.

[Video Game Fan 2000]

it is funny but it would be much funnier if we edited in Hans and the medium fry up guy and the hole pointing folks and all that stupid fucking shit and just kept posting it ad nauseum for years and years

this cunt staring into the void while brandishing a knife and fork to camera yet

[Video Game Fan 2000]

look at him working
darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there
this cunt dead, yeah?