Once we didn’t have much to do, we were feeling very bored and we REALLY wanted to know what the answer was, suddenly someone turned Sergeant Pepper’s album cover upside down.
With the cover in that position, it was easy to see that the word BEATLES, seen upside down, formed a seven-digit number. The number was 5371038.
A couple of digits had to be modified a bit to convert to numbers, but don’t forget that at the time we were quite used to the idea of trying to interpret strange shapes and colors and pattern configurations that might or might not contain some conveyed cosmic message. from another dimension. It just went with the territory. And furthermore, as you can see from the album cover image, the word is built into a flowerbed so the lyrics aren’t too stiff.
The next logical thought was that it could be a secret phone number that you could call and get the truth about all the Beatles mysteries, like if Paul was really dead, who was the walrus, does Lucy in the sky with diamonds really represent? ? LSD, what is the meaning of number 9 and many others.
But not only those mysteries. What if the secret number was channeled somehow, perhaps from a neighboring galaxy, or from a non-physical dimension of the space-time continuum? In such a case, the Beatles and their album cover designers might be unaware that they were being used as a medium. What if you could phone and get the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything?
Naturally, we tried London first, as it looks like the flowerbed might have 01 next to it, which at the time was the London area code. Unlucky. Then we tried Liverpool, of course. Then New York (the Big Apple) and then Los Angeles, that fantasy hub. They all went blank.
Which was a shame, because it had seemed like a great idea, and it could have been great to know all the secrets there were to know! By the way, numerologists would like to know that when you add the digits, you get 27, and when you add those digits in turn, you get the number 9. How amazing is that?
We couldn’t help but feel that there might still be an area code out there, and that it might still be available to reveal its secrets to those who find it.
