‘The cover of the We're Only In It For The ‘Money LP was inside-out compared to that of Sgt. Pepper, with the front and back covers co of one corresponding to the gatefold of the other. According to Schenkel, The wort cover was originally designed to be oriented like the SGT. PEPPER'S cover: It was turned inside-out at the demand of MGM Legal Dept. [believe this was merely on their specula~ tion that there might possibly be trouble atber~ ‘mise. To my memory, this occurred while still in reduction — none were originally released with the ‘right-side-out’ orientation."” “The parody of the Sgt. Pepper front cover appeared on the front of the booklet of the 1986 two-fer CD, but the 1995 CD reverted to the orientation of the LP, with the parody of the Sgt. Pepper gatefold on the outside of the booklet. The 2012 CD once again matches the orientation of Sgz. Pepper: FZ stated that Thad a conversation on the phone with Paul ‘McCartney about the time of that album and ‘asked to do a parody of that cover: He was shocked ‘ond appalled that I would even talk business with ‘him on the phone. We have these managers. You mean you talk business?” The final outcome vo the conversation was ‘I can't say; T'Ml ask the coher members of the group’ and blab and blab ‘and after about six months bolding it up it was Finally sealed with lawyers, their attorney even- ‘tually called MGM and said it." In later interviews, FZ increased the delay to ‘about eleven months"! or even ‘thir~ teen months’? But We're Only In It For The ‘Money was released just nine months after ‘Sgt, Pepper, and just seven months after the phone conversation with McCartney. McCartney later stated that ‘I don't think EMI would have stopped them, or even could have stopped them.’ Barry Miles suggested that ‘itis quite probable that ‘MGM_Verve never even approached EMI. Tf they did, the Beatles would have heard of it, and helped."* ‘McCartney had acknowledged Freak Out! as an influence on Sgt. Pepper. Miles recalled, Paul bad already beard FREAK OUT! at my place ‘a number of times, and one day, not long after ‘Tsent bim his own copy, be said, ‘We're gevting ready to do a PREAK OUT! of our own. Not the same as Zappa, of course. We've got our own way of doing it. The Mothers’ rREAK our! didn’t influence bim muck, if at all, musically in the making of SGT. PEBPER, but the idea of treating «a pop album as a connplete unit, rather than as a series of singles, appealed to hime very much, and Zappa was the first to do i. ‘The foreground of the intended front cover of We're Only In It For The Money is 4 photograph taken by Jerrold Schatzberg on July 18, 1967. Schatzberg had taken the photographs for Bob Dylan’s Blonde Ov Blonde album and the Rolling Stones’ ‘Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In “The Shadow?’ single (featuring the Stones in women’s clothes), both of which were ‘released in 1966. Schatzberg recalled, Frank approached me because he'd seen the sleeve that I did ... when they were in drag, and be ‘had an idea that be wanted to do a combination of that and 3G. PEPPER. And instead of flowers ‘ind wonderful dreams, be wanted garbage and ‘ld food and what you see around on the floor oe Frank knew exactly what be wanted, and we “discussed it, and stuff just started coming in and “pe started serting, it up and preparing it. It took ‘is; [ think, the better part of a day and a balf to ‘actually shoot it and remember finishing quite Tate at night, but the studio was an absolute mess afterward, all those vegetables rotting”? Footage of the photo shoot (and the making of the plaster FZ figure) is seen in the Uncle ‘Meat video and Video From Hell. The photo shows (from left to righ): producer Tom Wilson (wearing Jimmy Carl Black's high school sweater from Gadsden High School in Anthony, New Mexico); plaster figures (corresponding to the wax Figures of The Beatles on Sgt. Pepper) of ‘Mothers Don Preston, Billy Mundi, Jimmy Carl Black, Ian Underwood, and FZ (ina replica of his Pipco shirt from Larmpy Gravy) Roy Estrada; Billy Mundis plaster Bunk Gardner (behind Mundi; the real Bunk Gardner (in a vintage wheelchair — possibly the same one used by Bill Wyman on the Rolling Stones single); Jimmy Carl Blacks Don Preston; Tan Underwood; FZ; Gail Sloatman (pregnant with Moon and soon t© marry FZ); Jimi Hendrix; and Cal Schenkel (holding a carton of eggs). FZ wanted a bust of Edgar Varése, but settled for Beethoven. ‘The band name is spelled out in carrots, eadishes, tomatoes, and watermelon instead ‘of The Beatles’ red flowers. Cal Schenke!’s collage in the background includes physicist ‘Albert Einstein (upper left, in black hat),