THE BEATLES - ALBUM COVER DESIGNS — Peter Stern THE BEATLES - ALBUM COVER DESIGNS Richard Hamilton -The Beatles White Album Cover Design In one of Richard Hamilton's last filmed interviews, he tells the story of how he designed the Beatles White Album cover. The previous Beatles record, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover was designed by the English Pop Artist, Peter Blake. which is packed full of Blake’s now iconic imagery. Together with Paul McCartney, they decided that the next Beatles cover should be the total opposite of the Sgt Pepper’s design, and Richard created a minimalist white double cover sleeve. The Beatles record label, EMI had concerns, but Paul McCartney, who commissioned Richard, persuaded EMI to allow the design to go ahead. The Beatles White Album is probably the first album to be known by the cover design and not the actual name of the album, which is simply, “The Beatles”.

New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday | Art and design | The Guardian Peter Blake New faces on Sgt Pepper album cover for artist Peter Blake's 80th birthday Amy Winehouse, JK Rowling, Noel Gallagher, Mick Jagger and the Monty Python foot to feature in update of 1967 original The new artwork featuring British cultural icons selected by Sir Peter Blake to mark his 80th birthday. Photograph: Sir Peter Blake/Vintage festival/PA Sunday 1 April 2012 19.01 EDT First published on Sunday 1 April 2012 19.01 EDT Close This article is 4 years old British pop artist Sir Peter Blake has taken inspiration from his most famous artwork – the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures he most admires as he marks his 80th birthday. Twiggy, Amy Winehouse , Grayson Perry, JK Rowling and even Monty Python's emblematic foot all feature in a reworked version of the 1967 cover created for his birthday celebrations.

Blake, often called the godfather of the British pop art scene, said: "I've chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends. "I had a very long list of people who I wanted to go in but couldn't fit everyone in – I think that shows how strong British culture and its legacy of the last six decades is." Singer Noel Gallagher, formerly of Oasis, was "chuffed" to be included. "To be on there with the likes of Vivienne Westwood , Mick Jagger and Paul Weller, just those three people alone, is amazing for me as I wouldn't put myself up with any of those," he said. Rowling said: "Given that I've devoted quite a lot of time to gazing at the original Sgt Pepper album cover, you can perhaps imagine what it means to me to be featured." Playwright Tom Stoppard said his inclusion was "an honour that outdoes delirium" while singer Elvis Costello said: "I always dreamed that I might one day stand in the boots of [Liverpool footballer] Albert Stubbins." The original 1967 artwork also featured James Dean, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx and Marilyn Monroe.

The new version has been created for a special birthday celebration of Blake's life at Wayne Hemingway's Vintage festival at Boughton House, Northamptonshire, in July. Hemingway, co-founder of the Red or Dead fashion brand, said: "The new artwork is a tribute to Britain's standing as the world's leading creative nation." It was "an incredible honour" for Blake to "reimagine such an iconic work of art", he said, adding: "We are proud to be dedicating the Sunday at Vintage this year to celebrate his 80th birthday and creative and cultural legacy." Terry Jones, the actor, director and original Python, said: "Monty Python is flattered to have had his foot selected, but there are better parts of his body available at very little cost." The foot itself was borrowed by Terry Gilliam from Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, a work by 16th century Florentine painter Bronzino.

His Python co-star, Michael Palin, added: "It's a great tribute to a fine foot – just don't tell Bronzino or he'll want royalties." Peter Blake's updated cover to the classic Beatles album has plenty of interesting faces - but a conspicuous lack of people of colour Published: 2 Apr 2012 The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Photo Shoot: Faces in the Crowd Lydia Hutchinson | June 1, 2016 | 16 Comments As the definitive snapshot of ‘60s pop culture (taken on March 30, 1967 by Michael Cooper at Chelsea manor Photo Studios), artist Peter Blake’s Sgt. Pepper cover was unlike anything the world had ever seen. The result was a collage bursting with color, texture, intellectual diversity, comedy, tragedy and time compressed. Even today, shrunk down to jewel case dimensions, the iconic design captures the eye and the imagination. And it came with a free cardboard mustache. “In my mind I was making a piece of art rather than an album cover,” Blake said. “It was almost a piece of theater design.” It was Blake’s concept to assemble what he called “a magical crowd” around the band.

“I offered the idea that if they had just played a concert in the park, the cover could be a photograph of them with the group who had watched the concert,” he said. “If we did this by using cardboard cut-outs, it could be whomever they wanted.” Fred Astaire was pleased. Mae West was aghast that she would be a member of a lonely hearts club. Shirley Temple asked to hear the finished album before she agreed. Despite Paul McCartney’s assurance to Blake and EMI that the cover stars of Sgt. Pepper would “love it and do anything to please us,” permissions had to be obtained for the most famous class photo of all time. It was a headache for manager Brian Epstein’s office, but their PR efforts paid off; the only holdout, Bowery Boy Leo Gorcey, insisted on a $400 fee and was promptly airbrushed out of history. Each Beatle—excepting the go-along-to-get-along Ringo Starr—offered suggestions on who should be pictured in the crowd behind them. Some of the inclusions are whimsical or tongue-in-cheek, and a few actually came from art director Robert Fraser and Blake.

However, several of the “Club” members were very important to the Beatles’ lives and art. LEWIS CARROLL Carroll’s surreal wordplay is echoed in the Beatles’ stream-of-consciousness verse during the Sgt. Pepper period, particularly that of John Lennon. His “I Am the Walrus” was a direct reference to Carroll’s poem “The Walrus and the Carpenter.” SRI PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA George Harrison’s cover subject choices were mostly Indian holy men, including this yogi and guru who was instrumental in bringing meditation and yoga to the West. Friend and sitar teacher Ravi Shankar had given Harrison a copy of Yogananda’s book Autobiography of a Yogi in 1966, and its influence on the spiritually searching Beatle was profound. BOB DYLAN Although his debut album had been released only five years previous, Dylan was already a giant figure in the minds of his fans—including the Beatles. Everything they had written since the Rubber Soul era carried a touch of Dylan’s influence, if only in the way he opened up the possibilities of rock lyrics to subjects other than boy-meets-girl.

STUART SUTCLIFFE The original “fifth Beatle,” Sutcliffe was a talented painter who played bass for the group before leaving to pursue a promising career as a visual artist—one that came to a premature end when he died from a brain hemorrhage in 1962 at age 21. Lennon, his closest friend in the band, asked to include him on the Sgt. Pepper’s cover. Yoko Ono has said that hardly a day went by when her husband did not mention Sutcliffe’s name. KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN The 20th-century German modern composer’s pioneering electronic work led McCartney (who chose him for the cover) to begin conducting his own experiments, which produced innovative sounds like the eerie looped effects on 1966’s “Tomorrow Never Knows.” MARLON BRANDO The legendary actor’s turn as a rebellious biker in 1953’s The Wild One was a touchstone for ‘50s teenagers like the Beatles, perhaps even more than they consciously knew.

The group named itself in honor of Buddy Holly’s Crickets—but in the Beatles Anthology documentary, McCartney recounts seeing The Wild One again several years ago and noticing for the first time that one of the movie’s motorcycle gangs is called “The Beetles.” —By Bill DeMain Designing Revolution: The Beatles' Album Covers | The Huffington Post Designing Revolution: The Beatles' Album Covers 03/11/2013 03:51 pm ET | Updated May 11, 2013 250 When Albums Became Art Imagine a record store that stocks only The White Album. This month in Soho, it exists. "We Buy White Albums," an installation at the Recess Gallery by Rutherford Chang, displays 700 of Chang's own White Albums on its walls. Each record -- worn, torn, and doodled on through the decade -- tells its own story. In an age when music is sold through downloaded files, it also shows the power of a physical object, the record, that just doesn't exist anymore. Photo credit: Recess Activities Rutherford Chang is 27 years old. He believes The Beatles are as relevant and powerful for his generation as for any other.

They led more than the music revolution we all know about. Their album covers changed art and design forever. Here are some of the best. Revolver -- The Cover That Began With McCartney in the Loo Part-line drawing, part collage, Revolver's iconic cover is the handiwork of German artist Klaus Voorman, the Beatles' old pal. Voorman designed the cover to mirror the feel of the music itself at the psychedelic dawn. "They were being so avant-garde," Voorman has said . "I thought, the cover has to do the same thing. How far can I go? How surreal and strange can it be?" The Revolver design was created by sifting through piles of newspapers for pictures of the Fab Four, cutting them out and gluing them together, and then superimposing them onto a line drawing. I had a few strange ones where John was pulling a face, or Paul was laughing, but in general, the photos show their sweet side. The first time I showed it to them I was scared, because nobody said anything. They were just looking at it. I thought #@%, they hate it.

Then Paul looked closer and said, 'Hey, that's me sitting on a toilet!' George Martin took a look and said, 'You can't show that!' Paul said, 'No, it's great!' So that broke the ice. McCartney later decided to take that picture off. But the idea was set. The album art helped kick off the psychedelic era, foreshadowing the technicolor explosion of Sgt. Pepper one year later. The Who's Who of Sgt. Pepper The cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic images in the history of rock 'n' roll. But it wasn't always the design we know and love. The photo was originally going to show the Beatles playing in a park. Luckily they scrapped that plan, and the cover evolved into the final concept, where The Beatles stand amidst cardboard cutouts of their cultural heroes. "In my mind I was making a piece of art rather than an album cover. It was almost a piece of theater design." -- Designer Sir Peter Blake Rebel-rouser John Lennon suggested -- half-jokingly, it is believed -- that they include Jesus Christ, Gandhi, and Adolf Hitler in the cover photo.

The lingering bitterness about Lennon's "the Beatles are bigger than Jesus" comment led the band to scrap his image. Hitler was also thought to have been removed before the shoot on the grounds of taste. But in 2007 Sir Peter Blake admitted to the Independent, "Yes he is on there -- you just can't see him. If you look at photographs of the out-takes, you can see the Hitler image in the studio." A Hitler cutout was created before it was wisely removed and pushed out of the shot. In the end the collage includes Edgar Allen Poe, Fred Astaire, Karl Marx, Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll, Jane Mansfield, other British Rockers, and Shirley Temple (who requested to hear the record before she allowed her image to be used). Designer Peter Blake (now, Sir) received only £200 for creating one of the most important album covers ever. As he put it, "I could be bitter about only getting £200 for Sgt. Pepper. But I have to move on." The Colors of The White Album The Beatles is the original anti-cover.

It's only known as The White Album due to the absence on the cover of anything other than the band's name in embossed lettering. The jacket was designed by Richard Hamilton, who is often called the father of pop art. Hamilton proposed the blank cover as a deliberately minimalist response to the technicolor overdose of Sgt. Pepper. The simple white square was an instant design hit-- and spawned thousands of homage covers. Jay-Z, Prince, and Metallica all created entirely dark CDs called The Black Album. Punk band Weezer created The Green Album and The Blue Album, and the comedian Dennis Miller released The Off-White Album in 1988. For his part, Spongebob Squarepants released The Yellow Album. Abbey Road -- Paul Is Dead The photo shoot for 1969′s Abbey Road took only 10 minutes. Just six frames were taken by the photographer, Iain Macmillan, who was perched on a stepladder. Those 10 minutes would change rock and roll forever and create not just a great piece of art, but a cultural landmark. The Abbey Road zebra crossing attracts thousands of musicians and tourists every year, who hope to recreate themselves on the album cover each year.

Can't get to London? The Abbey Road WebCam let's you watch the never-ending stream of fans 24/7. Beatles nuts who believed that Paul McCartney died in 1967 and had been replaced by a lookalike found a lot to examine on the cover of Abbey Road. They saw the picture as a funeral procession: John (dressed in white) was the preacher, Ringo (in black) the mourner, and Paul (barefoot) was the corpse. They believed a license plate in the background, 281f, was a code that meant Paul would have been 28 years old if he had not died. These folks are the birthers of music fans. But it didn't stop McCartney from doing his own tribute to the cover on his 1993 concert EP, Paul Is Live. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. More: Designing Revolution: The Beatles Album Covers Designing Revolution: The Beatles Album Covers Beatles Album Design: A Revolution and an Evolution The band that started it all with the British Invasion also started a revolution in the art of the album cover.

Long after Beatlemania was over, (if it ever really was), the art that was created on their covers inspired a whole new take on the 12 x12. Here, we explore the evolution of The Beatles album covers, which changed as the Beatles and their music changed, and are as ingrained in our culture as the music itself. The Early Albums The Beatles Album Covers were a vital part of the experience Like many albums of the time, their albums had the Beatles faces, shown close up. But the photography style of Meet the Beatles introduced a new look. The black-and-white starkly lit images and unusual composition demonstrated the artfulness they would always have in every aspect of their work. As we listened to the music, we stared longingly at these images of our heros. Following that album, the title typography and off-kilter photo on Rubber Soul foretold the beginning of the mind-bending period of art that was to define the 60’s. And who could forget the dead babies cover? Substituted after the first printing with meat, these original covers were revealed if you steamed off the new one, and are of course, worth a fortune.

“We used to sit with the album in our hands, looking at the artwork and lyrics while our ears were tuned to the Hi-Fi, volume up as high as it would go. The album covers were as much a part of the experience as the music itself.” Says Carmen, herself a Baby Boomer and Beatles fan. Here are the design stories behind the album covers that changed rock and roll, and the world, forever. Revolver – The Cover That Began With McCartney in the Loo Klaus Voorman, reinventing the art of the album cover German artist Klaus Voorman, who befriended The Beatles during their Hamburg days. Voorman was with the band and drew many sketches and paintings of these wild and crazy days at the Kaiserkeller Club. He presented several ideas to the boys, and they unanimously chose the one that became one of the most recognized of all their albums. His pen-and-ink signature style perfectly reflected the energy and music of the band. Still as prolific and amazing as ever, you can see more of Klaus Voorman’s work on his website “They were being so avant-garde,” Voorman has said. “I thought, the cover has to do the same thing. How far can I go?

How surreal and strange can it be?” The Revolver artwork was created by sifting through piles of newspapers for pictures of the Fab Four, cutting them out and gluing them together, and then superimposing them onto his line drawing. “I had a few strange ones where John was pulling a face, or Paul was laughing, but in general, the photos show their sweet side. The first time I showed it to them I was scared, because nobody said anything. They were just looking at it. I thought #@%, they hate it. Then Paul looked closer and said, ‘Hey, that’s me sitting on a toilet!’ George Martin took a look and said, ‘You can’t show that!’ Paul said, ‘No, it’s great!’ So that broke the ice.” McCartney later decided to remove that particular image, but the style was set. The album art helped kick off the psychedelic era, foreshadowing the technicolor explosion of “Sgt. Pepper” one year later. Below is a cartoon by Voorman depicting how they designed the cover. Who’s Who in “Sgt. Pepper” The cover of “Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is, without a doubt, one of the most iconic images in the history of rock and roll. But it wasn’t always the design we know and love. The photo was originally going to show the Beatles playing in a park. Luckily they scrapped that plan, and the cover took a very different turn. Created by Sir Peter Blake, The Beatles stand amidst life-sized cardboard cutouts of their cultural heroes. This was no photoshop job, this entire image was a physical creation. “In my mind I was making a piece of art rather than an album cover. It was almost a piece of theater design” -Designer Sir Peter Blake Rebel-rouser John Lennon suggested— half-jokingly, it is believed—that they include Jesus Christ, Gandhi, and Adolf Hitler in the cover photo. The lingering bitterness about Lennon’s “The Beatles are bigger than Jesus” comment led the band to scrap his image. Hitler was also thought to have been removed before the shoot on the grounds of taste. But in 2007 Sir Peter Blake admitted to The Independent, “Yes he is on there – you just can’t see him.

If you look at photographs of the out-takes, you can see the Hitler image in the studio.” A Hitler cutout was created before it was wisely removed and pushed out of the shot. In 1967, Time magazine, wrote that Sgt. Pepper constituted a “historic departure in the progress of music—any music.” Release group “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles - MusicBrainz There’s 1 review on CritiqueBrainz. You can also write your own . Most Recent Review by Chris Jones on 2007-04-23 It took 129 days to record, between autumn 1966 and spring 1967, and it changed the world. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band may have all but disappeared under an avalanche of hyperbole, but if there's one reason why this album stands the test of time it's because its sum is greater than its whole. After five listens most people will know it as a suite, where Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds always follows With a Little Help from My Friends. And it will always be thus.

The reason it took 129 days to piece together isn't due to the band's indulgences - on the contrary, The Beatles were extremely disciplined during their studio sessions. It's simply because guiding an album this complex to fruition in those days took a long time. These guys weren't just recording songs; they were inventing the stuff with which to make this record as they went along. But with George Martin and his backroom boys on hand, the Faberge psychedelic egg that was finally laid on the eve of the Summer of Love came so fully-realised that it changed the way we listened to recorded sound forever. Sgt Pepper's… is at once warm and familiar, yet wild and strange; cosy and English with a very empirical eye on the exotica of the East (note George Harrison's underrated Within You Without You). Shot through with Peter Blake-assisted Edwardiana, it was also as fashionable as it could possibly be. It was also a release key in the canon of concept albums, coming with its own alter-ego mythology and very much addressing the pressing concerns of their generation, ie: how to achieve higher states of consciousness in 60s suburbia.

It is riddled with The Beatles' trademark love/hate affair with the Establishment as their own lives were suddenly shoved unceremoniously up against those of the chattering classes, encapsulated by She's Leaving Home's blow at straight parenthood, Lovely Rita's suggestion of sexual deviancy, and A Day in the Life's oblique references to minds being blown on buses in rush hour traffic. Yet it's all a far cry from the militancy of their American peers. Paul McCartney's When I'm 64 is pure nostalgia for his parents' golden age, one which was taken from them. It's less a kicking out of the jams, more a spreading them on scones at teatime. Yet what was revolutionary was the sonic carpet that enveloped the ears and sent the listener spinning into other realms. There was the nursery rhyme surrealism of Lucy in the Sky…, the crazed calliopes of Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite! and, of course, the lysergic collage of A Day in the Life, promising the meaning of life in its endless final chord. And it still rings on today. Release group information Sir Peter Blake Recreates The Sgt.

Pepper Album Cover You are › Home / Amy Winehouse News / Sir Peter Blake Recreates The Sgt. Pepper Album Cover Sir Peter Blake Recreates The Sgt. Pepper Album Cover To celebrates his 80th birthday, Sir Peter Blake recreates the Sgt. Pepper album cover and includes Amy Winehouse. British pop artist Sir Peter Blake has taken inspiration from his most famous artwork – the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club album cover – to celebrate the British cultural figures he most admires as he marks his 80th birthday. Sir Peter Blake recreates the Sgt. Pepper album cover and includes Amy Winehouse, also Mick Jagger, Noel Gallagher and Paul Weller are featured in the recreated version of the 1967 album cover created for his birthday celebrations. Blake, often called the godfather of the British pop art scene, said: “I’ve chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends.” Sir Peter Blake reinvents Sgt Pepper album cover with his own inspirations Reported by Metro, Sir Peter Blake has taken inspiration from his Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover to create a new artwork.

The English pop artist, 79, is best known for designing the 1967 Beatles cover as a collage of life-sized cardboard models of Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando and many others. The new artwork features those who have inspired Sir Peter, who has been dubbed the Godfather of Pop Art. Alongside him, wife Chrissy and daughters Liberty, Rose and Daisy are names as diverse as Alfred Hitchcock and Amy Winehouse. He said: ‘The Sgt Pepper cover was made by cutting pieces of cardboard and hand-colouring them. This one is computer-generated but it was very laborious.’ Sir Peter has made the work for his 80th birthday celebrations at this year’s Wayne Hemingway Vintage Festival, held in Northamptonshire from July 13 to 15. The original 1967 cover of Sgt. Pepper’s was designed by Peter Blake and put together by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, who painstakingly combed through hundreds of photos for months before the photo shoot. Many of the people pictured in the cover were personal heroes of the Beatles or people they admired. The original 1967 artwork featured James Dean, Bob Dylan, Karl Marx and Marilyn Monroe.

Sir Peter Blake recreates the Sgt. Pepper album cover and includes Amy Winehouse who is featured in the top left hand corner of the album cover. Adapted Sgt Pepper album cover is world's most valuable | Music | The Guardian The Beatles Adapted Sgt Pepper album cover is world's most valuable Beatles sleave featuring faces of music executives in place of the band's worth around £70,000, says music magazine Adapted cover of The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a detail from which is pictured above. Photograph: Record Collector Magazine/PA Press Association Thursday 3 November 2011 16.38 EDT First published on Thursday 3 November 2011 16.38 EDT Close This article is 5 years old A Beatles sleeve featuring the faces of music executives in place of the band has been declared the world's most valuable record cover. The adapted artwork for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album is valued at around £70,000, according to a study by Record Collector magazine. It is one of five Beatles albums in the top 10 of releases which are prized primarily for the collectability of their sleeves.

It also includes the famous banned "butcher" sleeve which was briefly issued in the US, and some of the numbered copies of their 1968 self-titled release, often known as the "white album". The limited edition Sgt Pepper sleeve was created for Christmas 1967 to celebrate the success of the album. Sir Peter Blake's original collage image was revamped to insert the faces of US label bosses from Capitol Records, replacing the band and many of the other notable figures who had originally featured, although Bob Dylan and Sonny Liston were among those retained. Only around 100 are thought to have been made, with just three known copies in the hands of collectors. The Beatles are also runners-up in the list, with the first 10 numbered and embossed copies of the white album valued at around £7,000. The plain cover was designed by the pop artist Richard Hamilton, who died in the summer. Ian Shirley, editor of the Rare Record Price Guide 2012, who compiled the list, said: "While pristine records and inserts are vital to securing a top price, the numbered sleeve is the main attraction.

The hunger to collect low numbers remains undiminished amongst Beatles fans." The band also feature at number four with US album Introducing The Beatles on Vee-Jay records fetching up to £3,000, while an odd and rare US compilation of Beatles and Frank Ifield tunes released by the same label is fifth and valued at a similar level. The butcher sleeve of US release Yesterday And Today is in eighth position, and estimated at around £2,000. The cover was shot in 1966 by the band's then official photographer Robert Whitaker - who died six weeks ago - featuring the band in white coats and draped with fresh meat and dismembered toy dolls. It was quickly replaced when Capitol executives decided it was too distasteful, and a new shot was simply glued on top. In third position, according to Record Collector, are a pair of sleeves designed by Andy Warhol, although less celebrated than his covers for the Velvet Underground & Nico and the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers.

He had been a freelance illustrator before finding major fame in the 1960s and provided images for a number of LPs, including a language tutorial, Madrigal's Magic Key To Spanish Volumes 1 and 2, and a bizarre spoken-word anti-crime lecture called The Nation's Nightmare. Record Collector editor Ian McCann said: Every so often I get asked why vinyl persists as a music medium despite it being archaic and inconvenient compared to MP3. "One of the answers is the artwork: people like to hold a vinyl record, look at the sleeve, take in the information and the photo on the cover. That is something that an MP3 will never be able to compete with." Also in the list at 21 is a release by cult Manchester act The Durutti Column. The Return Of The Durutti Column is noted for its sleeve made of sandpaper, which ruined the cover of any other albums when it was slipped out of a record rack. The full list is published in the December Record Collector, on sale on Friday.

The top 10 is as follows 1 The Beatles Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [limited edition Capitol version] (1967) £70,000 2 The Beatles The Beatles (1968).

Numbers 1-10 £7,000 3 Madrigals Magic Key To Spanish Volumes 1 and 2 (1953) £3,500; The Nation's Nightmare (1951),£3,000 4 The Beatles Introducing The Beatles (1964) £3,000 5 The Beatles/Frank Ifield England's Greatest Recording Stars: The Beatles & Frank Ifield On Stage (1964) £3,000 6 Tinkerbell's Fairydust Tinkerbell's Fairydust (1969) £3,000 7 AC/DC 12 Of The Best (1978) £3,000 8 The Beatles Yesterday And Today (1966) £2,000 9 Dark Dark Round The Edges (1972) £2,000 10 Hank Mobley Hank Mobley (1957) £2,000 Sir Peter Blake recreates Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover with his own Brit cultural icons - Mirror Online Thank you for subscribing!

Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Sir Peter Blake has taken inspiration from his famous Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover to create a new artwork. The English pop artist, 79, is best known for designing the 1967 Beatles cover, a colourful collage of life-sized cardboard models of famous faces together with the Fab Four. Each of the band members picked their favourites for the crowd scene, which featured Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Karl Marx, Marlene Dietrich, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy among others. The new artwork features the names who have inspired Sir Peter, who has been dubbed the Godfather of Pop Art, over the decades. British artists, film directors, musicians, writers, film stars, fashion designers and chefs, as well as himself and his family, are all represented.

Those whose faces are on the new image include murder mystery writer Agatha Christie, fashion designers Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood and the late Alexander McQueen, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, singer Amy Winehouse, artists Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and David Hockney, supermodel Kate Moss, TV cooks Fanny Cradock and Delia Smith, Harry Potter author JK Rowling - and Sir Paul McCartney once again. Sir Peter said: "I've chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends. "I had a very long list of people who I wanted to go in but couldn't fit everyone in - I think that shows how strong British culture is and its legacy over the last six decades." Sir Peter Blake selects the British cultural icons of his life to mark his 80th birthday celebrations at Vintage Festival. 1. Amy Winehouse; 2. Sir Paul Smith; 3. Ian Curtis; 4. Nick Park; 5. Robin Day; 6. Lucienne Day; 7. Francis Bacon; 8. Roald Dahl; 9. Alfred Hitchcock; 10. Lucian Freud; 11. Kate Moss; 12.

Paul Weller; 13. Sir Tom Stoppard; 14. Danny Boyle; 15. Sir Mick Jagger; 16. Fanny Cradock; 17. Mr Chow; 18. David Chipperfield; 19. Harold Pinter; 20.David Bailey; 21. Mary Quant; 22. Anish Kapoor; 23. JK Rowling; 24. JRR Tolkien; 25. Robyn Hitchcock; 26. Sir Terence Conran; 27. John Peel; 28. Martin Parr; 29.Sir Tim Berners Lee; 30. John Hurt; 31. Rick Stein; 32. Sir Jonathan Ive; 33. Sir David Lean; 34. Sir David Attenborough; 35. Bridget Riley; 36. Sir Terence Rattigan; 37. Richard Curtis; 38. Tommy Steele; 39. Mark Hix; 40.Vidal Sassoon; 41. Sir Ridley Scott; 42.

Justin De Villeneuve; 43. Lord Norman Foster; 44. Peter Saville; 45. Tracey Emin; 46. Sir Paul McCartney; 47. Gavin Turk; 48. Barbara Hulanicki; 49. Agatha Christie; 50. Delia Smith; 51. David Bowie; 52. Twiggy; 53. Audrey Hepburn; 54. Gary Oldman; 55. Damien Hirst; 56. Stella McCartney; 57. Mary McCartney; 58. Alexander McQueen; 59. Dame Vivienne Westwood; 60. Dame Helen Mirren; 61. Grayson Perry; 62. Wreckless Eric; 63. David Hockney; 64. Eric Clapton; 65. Ian Dury; 66. Sir Elton John; 67. Chris Corbin; 68. Jeremy King; 69. Dame Shirley Bassey; 70. Noel Gallagher; 71. Richard Rogers; 72.

Elvis Costello; 73. Liberty Blake; 74. Chrissy Blake; 75. Sir Peter Blake; 76. Rose Blake; 77. Daisy Blake; 78. Monty Python foot; 79. Victoria Vintage Fab Four's album cover: 1967 hit LP The artist said: "The Sgt Pepper album cover was made by cutting pieces of cardboard and hand-colouring them. This one is computer generated. I often thought that if I did it again it would be very quick on the computer but it was very laborious. "Putting this together made me realise we've got the most exciting artists, actors and chefs ... in this country. Our cultural scene is incredibly healthy." Sir Peter has made the artwork to go on display during his 80th birthday celebrations at this year's Vintage Festival, celebrating the best of British culture. Author Rowling said of her inclusion in the work: "Given that I've devoted quite a lot of time to gazing at the original Sgt Pepper album cover, you can perhaps imagine what it means to me to be selected.

What an honour." Noel Gallagher (Photo: PA) Noel Gallagher said: "When they told me I had been chosen I was obviously very chuffed. It's nice to be recognised by as great an artist as Sir Peter Blake." Wayne Hemingway, who runs the Vintage Festival, said the work was "a tribute to Britain's standing as the world's leading creative nation". "Sir Peter is the Godfather of British Pop Art and is still as passionate as ever about art and culture. "It is truly an incredible honour to have him re-imagine such an iconic work of art and we are proud to be dedicating the Sunday at Vintage this year to celebrate his 80th birthday and creative and cultural legacy." The Wayne Hemingway Vintage Festival, where an exhibition of Sir Peter's work will be on show, takes place in Northamptonshire from July 13th to 15th. Like us on Facebook Most Read Most Recent Most Read Most Recent Spotlight On: The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ | Athena Spotlight On: The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ This entry was posted on 30th May 2016 by Simon Coates.

Perhaps the most iconic album cover of all time, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band remains a landmark design from the height of the psychedelic 60s. A high-concept artwork that paid homage to The Beatles ’ influences even as it blurred the boundaries between the group and their Sgt Pepper’s alter egos, it cost an unprecedented £3,000 to create in 1967. Legendary British pop art pioneer Peter Blake was called upon to create the album cover, along with his then wife Jann Haworth, and the pair approached the work as through they were staging a piece of theatre. After suggesting that The Beatles appear on the sleeve dressed in their Sgt Pepper’s psychedelic military chic finery – as if fresh from playing a concert and surrounded by adoring fans – Paul McCartney sketched a rough idea that Blake and Haworth brought to life. The end result comprised 57 photos and nine waxworks, with the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Lewis Carrol and Bob Dylan nestling alongside Fred Astaire, boxer Sonny Liston and poet and author Edgar Allen Poe.

There was also a nod to The Beatles’ rivals, The Rolling Stones , with the inclusion of a Shirley Temple doll wearing a jumper that bore the slogan “Welcome The Rolling Stones Good Guys”. John, Paul, George and Ringo even included past “moptop” versions of themselves, installing Madame Tussauds wax statues that had been created a few years before, during the Beatlemania frenzy. A very meta addition to the line-up, it also showed just how far The Beatles had come in the four short years since the release of their debut album, Please Please Me . Each face in the crowd was picked by The Beatles themselves, though John Lennon’s suggestions to include Jesus Christ and Adolf Hitler were perhaps wisely refused. When Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released, on 1 June 1967, its artwork was an explosion of colour that remains one of the finest examples of British psychedelia from the era’s heyday. The subject of high-profile parodies by everybody from Frank Zappa to The Simpsons, the album cover – not to mention the album itself – remains, simply, a true work of art. Explore our Beatles page here, and purchase your exclusive Athena Album Art Sgt Pepper’s print here.

Question: Which English pop artist created The Beatles ‘Sgt Pepper’ album cover?
Answer: Peter Blake