Dr. Robert

In my artwork I tried to convey how bitter - sweet the access was to drugs in the swinging 60s. My step and repeat pattern makes it look light and whimsical with an underlying sinister meaning.

According to musicologist Walter Everett, the lyrics to "Doctor Robert" "contained the most overt drug references of any published Beatles song" up to 1966, and he adds that in their recording of the song, the band "found musical ways to portray the doctor as a saint". The character is in keeping with the idea of a "Dr Feelgood", a physician who prescribed drugs such as amphetamines under the guise of legitimate medical practice. Lennon recalled that McCartney might have helped him write the "Well, well, well" bridge;^[6] despite this, according to music journalist Robert Fontenot, "most agree the song is almost all John's brainchild."

Multiple theories have circulated about the identity of the real Dr Robert. Author Barry Miles identified him as Robert Freymann, a New York doctor known for dispensing vitamin B-12 shots laced with amphetamines to wealthy clientele. Aged around 60 in 1966, Freymann was a German-born Manhattan physician known to New York's artists and wealthier citizens for his vitamin B-12 injections, which also featured liberal doses of amphetamine. 

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Poster printed on 235gm Satin Paper. Delivered in a cardboard tube.