there could be no hunter thompson of course with jann wenner and that was warning hinkle. you talk about how important those editors were to him encouraging the kind of f enterprising kind of swashbuckling journalism that later becomes gonzo journalism. >> that's a really important time for him. so yes, he has his first bestseller. he moves tocolorado even before that book comes out. but he maintains his san francisco connection . by this time he's not wine is proceeding over a lot of the success at rampart magazine, not financial success but in terms of impact and circulation and there's a famous story about them going out to lunch and when they came back the cappuccino monkey that warren kept in the office have gotten into hunter's dexedrine and was screaming around the office. so they were friends. >> can you tell us a little bit of warren, what a character what he was ? >> they hit it off immediately. even thoughwarren never got him to write for ramparts , they remained friends and then frankly hunter began to struggle a little bit. he signed some contracts but he was

it was an extraordinary piece cos it involved you, your then wife jann, working, actually, very closely the beatles themselves, to get this image right. yeah. how difficult was it to get it right? along the way, there were problems and there were difficulties, but it wasn't difficult to make it. but we were inventing what we were doing. i mean, people often think it's a collage, a small collage, and in fact, it was life—size and built in the studio. so, all the little heads were life—size, cut out and hand tinted like a photographer. peter, how did you choose the characters behind the beatles themselves? cos there's such a mix of people. you know, very famous people, some not so famous. well, i think various people claim they did various parts of it. my main claim is that i had this idea that by working the way we were, this crowd who had gathered around this fictitious band of sgt pepper could be anybody. i mean, literally anybody that one could say a name to could be there. so, in doing that, i made a list, jann made a list, robert fraser made a list, and the beatles each made a list.

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