"Einstein Was There
Princeton’s most renowned resident can actually be found among the crowd on the cover of Sgt. Pepper, though he’s obscured by John Lennon’s shoulder. If you look at unused outtakes from the photo session, you’ll see a middle-aged Albert Einstein in a gray suit looking a bit lost in the crowd. If you doubt that Einstein was on the scene in spirit the day Sgt. Pepper “taught the band to play,” consider the recent Rolling Stone interview with the Beatle who emceed the album. When he was asked what continues to speak to people in the Beatles music, Paul McCartney put it this way: “Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed this band called the Beatles and did all that work.” - Stuart Mitchner
