Did Alan Aldridge’s 1969 illustration for The Beatles’ “Day Tripper” inspire the Rolling Stones’ logo (1971)?
Pond life. Art by M. A. Koekkoek (1, 4) and Ned Seidler.
Image 4—a version of image 1 as you can see; I’m not sure which one came first—used to hang on the wall of the staircase in my aunt’s house. I passed it often, and I always looked at it. Sometimes it was just a sideways glance, other times I studied it more thoroughly. But I always had to look. To live among those creatures beneath the surface... Somehow that idea appealed to me. I can easily get lost staring at these illustrations, especially the fourth one, with its twilight haze and its misty floor, teeming with life and yet so quietly mysterious.
