Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Record Sleeve
1967 (made)
1967 (made)
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The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by EMI Records in 1967, is arguably the most famous album sleeve of all time. The image on the album cover is composed of a collage of celebrities. There are 88 figures, including the band members themselves. Pop artist Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth conceived and constructed the set, including all the life-sized cut-outs of historical figures. The set was photographed, with the Beatles standing in the centre, by Michael Cooper. Copyright was a problem as Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, had to locate each person in order to get permission to use their image in this context.
Object details
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| Title | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Colour offset lithograph on paper and card |
| Brief description | Gatefold cover sleeve for the long-playing record 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' recorded by The Beatles. Cover design by M C Productions and The Apple, staged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Published by EMI Records, The Gramophone Co. Ltd. / Parlophone, Great Britain. 1988 reprint of the original 1967 design. |
| Physical description | Gatefold cover sleeve for the long-playing record 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' recorded by The Beatles for EMI Records, The Gramophone Co. Ltd. / Parlophone. The image on the album sleeve is composed of a collage of celebrities and the band members of the Beatles: Ringo Starr, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and John Lennon. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Lettered with title, credits, lyrics etc. and 'Cover by M C Productions and The Apple / Staged by Peter Blake and Jann Haworth Photographed by Michael Cooper Wax figures by Madame Tussauds'. |
| Credit line | Given by Kevin Edge |
| Object history | This version of the sleeve can be distinguished from the 1967 version by the presence of a barcode, and the absence of two glued-down flaps along the inside of the gatefold and of the original printers' name 'Garrod and Lofthouse Ltd.'. |
| Production | This is a 1988 reprint of the original 1967 design. For an original 1967 version of this sleeve see E.577-1985. |
| Subjects depicted | Music Dolls Uniforms Musicians Trombone Oboe Trumpet Piccolos Drums (Membranophones) Marijuana Hyacinth Starr, Ringo Lennon, John McCartney, Paul Harrison, George Starr, Ringo Rodia, Simon Peel, Robert Second Baronet (Sir) Huxley, Aldous Curtis, Tony Berman, Wallace Handley, Tommy Paramahansa Yogananda Mahavatar Babaji Lindner, Richard Marx, Karl Wells, H.G. Sutcliffe, Stuart Livingstone, David (Dr.) Shaw, George Bernard Adams, Julia Miller, Max Ball, Lucille Mix, Tom Power, Tyrone Bell, Larry Crane, Stephen Einstein, Albert Westermann, Horace Clifford Lahiri Mahasaya Carroll, Lewis Breen, Bobby Dors, Diana W.C. Fields Jung, Carl Gustav Southern, Terry Thomas, Dylan Brando, Marlon Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Crowley, Aleister Poe, Edgar Allen Lawrence, Thomas Edward Lieutenant Colonel Temple, Shirley Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent Hope, Bob Monroe, Marilyn Astaire, Fred Laurel, Stan Hardy, Oliver Dietrich, Marlene West, Mae Dion Hall, Huntz Dylan, Bob Liston, Sonny Merkin, Richard Stubbins, Albert Bonn, Issy Weissmuller, Johnny William S. Burroughs Stockhausen, Karlheinz Barnes, Binnie |
| Summary | The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by EMI Records in 1967, is arguably the most famous album sleeve of all time. The image on the album cover is composed of a collage of celebrities. There are 88 figures, including the band members themselves. Pop artist Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth conceived and constructed the set, including all the life-sized cut-outs of historical figures. The set was photographed, with the Beatles standing in the centre, by Michael Cooper. Copyright was a problem as Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, had to locate each person in order to get permission to use their image in this context. |
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| Accession number | E.1803-1990 |
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| Record created | January 6, 2004 |
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