7-и головая лошадь

Что означает лошадь с семью головами на логотипе Dark Horse Records?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_Records

The inspiration for the Dark Horse logo came from a label on a tin box George saw on one of his many trips to India.

The logo features Uchchaisravas the seven-headed horse, a common figure in Indian art and mythology.

In western culture a dark horse also refers to someone who unexpectedly succeeds. Despite having been overshadowed during his time in The Beatles by bandmates John Lennon and Paul McCartney, he was responsible for some of the bands more popular later songs such as "Here Comes the Sun" and "Something", and was the first Beatle to have a number one solo album with All Things Must Pass in(1970).

Позволю тока добавить фрагмент из интервью ГХ Рэю Кулману ("Мелоди Мейкер" от 6 сентября 1975г)

With the new label Dark Horse named after his song, one wonders whether George is making an autobiographical statement: "I'm a dark horse/Running on a dark race course".
"Yeah, well, the song came to me just early one morning when I was sitting by the fire in Henley. I just thought of dark horse in relation to Liverpool which was running through my mind at that moment. When I was a kid there, I always remember them saying: 'You'll never believe that Mrs Jones, she's running around with Mr Badger, you know she's a dark horse.'
"Next day, I woke up and wrote all the lyrics having breakfast at tea-time which is always a good situation for writing a song, I find. Went straight from writing it to the studio and recorded it straight away. The best line in the song, which is the most important, is 'running on a dark race course'.
"So, while the first line is very English, and might be taken as an admission to something, the second line means the whole situation is pretty shady.
"Then when I started to reassemble my business life, a business manager of mine asked me for a name for my publishing company and I said, 'I can't think of anything, you do it,' and he said, 'How about one of your songs?' So I said, 'OK, Dark Horse.' So then I got carried along with the whole thing, started looking everywhere for horses for the logo. I found the logo on a tin of paint in India. Problem: it was going the wrong way and it was white, but basically the horse itself was good. Brought the tin back, cleaned it up, got an artist to re-design it so it would run around the record this way. I made it dark." His belt buckle bears the Dark Horse insignia.

Вот именно: лошадь была изначально белая. Сивка под таким незатейливым ником Уччайхшравас :))
Джордж-же остался верен привычкам Savoy Truffle. Названия со всех этикеток, банок, ящиков - все в песню ли, в название фирмы ли.

Прочитал также, что в буклете, прилагавшемся к DVD Dark Horse Years Box Set имеются воспоминания Оливии по поводу "эволюции лого Dark Horse". Возможно, что речь там идет как раз о той перекраске индуистской сивки из белой в черную-семиголовую.

Спасибо, теперь понятно, но позвольте мне еще проявить крайнюю неосведомленность в области битловедения и спросить:
А что означает какой то хитрый символ похожий на тройку на борту этой самой лошадки? Он был у изначального Уччайхшраваса или его прицепили к нему на бок потом?

"Законы ОМа ышо не знакомы..."

2Olesha:

>Спасибо, теперь понятно, но позвольте мне еще
>проявить крайнюю неосведомленность в области битловедения
>и спросить:
>А что означает какой то хитрый символ похожий
>на тройку на борту этой самой лошадки?

Хитрый символ на борту лошадки, похожий на тройку - это завуалированная реклама нового альбома Пола Маккартни.
А вы уже купили ІІІ ?