Details of the Artwork

Cloud Singers is a view of the second chorus of Don't Let Me Down showing all the different instrument and vocal parts.

The layout has the Bass notes on the left side and the Treble notes and harmonics on the right. Earlier music is in front with later music in the back. The various parts are portrayed using textures from the musical instruments that produced them.

In this portrait the clouds shaped by the vocals have been cross sectioned. John and Paul's images have been projected directly onto the cloud shapes created by their voices. John's lead is on the left and Paul's higher harmony on the right.

Paul's electric bass part is rendered using textures from the dark fretboard of a Hofner violin electric bass. Electric guitars are rendered with a lighter fretboard from a guitar similar to George's. The keyboard depicts Billy Preston's electric piano parts. The light wood peaks represent Ringo's birch drums he used in the famous rooftop performance of the song in the movie Let It Be. At the front the drums are engulfed in red and yellow flames.

Cloud Singers

Don’t Let Me Down

The Beatles