Review: A must read for any fan of the Beatles
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 24, 2012
Kudos for the new e-book entitled The Sgt. Pepper Code, by Redwell Trabant.  This volume is dedicated to "Beatle fans worldwide," and is must reading for them.  More broadly, readers interested in the linkage between cultural influence generally, and the fine arts in particular, with the genre of Rock Music will find this a most enjoyable excursion.  Trabant looks deeply and imaginatively into the symbolism inherent in this iconic album, perhaps the finest rock album ever produced in a golden era of rock music.Trabant describes the album itself, and its extraordinary cover, as a treasure trove of cultural clues.  He invites other Beatle fans to join in him in his search for the grail of symbolic meaning hidden in this work, sometimes hidden in plain view.  At the highest level, Trabant finds a great amalgam of "Holy Eternals," but his quest for hidden clues covers individual personalities such as H.G. Wells, Francis Bacon, Albert Schweizer, Edgar Allan Poe, and mysterious movements such as the Rosicucian Society, the Knights Templar, and the Masons, dating from biblical times and established in England 600 years ago.  Readers also are invited to recall the fast-moving events of the lives of the Beatles, and the biograplhical implications of the curious lyrics in this album at a critical stage in their fragile careers.  The old sphinx Francis Bacon,  still a Lord Chancellor and keeper of the keys of mystic knowledge, would review Trabant's curious volume with delight.