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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.

The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely-recognized album cover which depicts several dozen celebrities and other images.

This album cover was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake. They won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1968 for their work on this cover.

The celebrities and items featured on the front cover are (by row, left to right):

Top row:

Second row:

Third row:

Front row:

Other objects within the group include:

People who were originally intended for the front cover but were ultimately excluded:

  • Leo Gorcey - was modelled and originally included to the left of Huntz Hall, but was subsequently removed when a fee of $400 was requested for the use of the actor's likeness.[2][3]
  • Mohandas Gandhi - was modelled and originally included to the right of Lewis Carroll, but was subsequently removed.[2][3] According to McCartney, "Gandhi also had to go because the head of EMI, Sir Joe Lockwood, said that in India they wouldn't allow the record to be printed".[1]
  • Jesus Christ - was requested by Lennon,[1] but not modelled because the LP would be released only a few months after Lennon's Jesus statement.[4]
  • Adolf Hitler - was modelled and was visible in early photographs of the montage, positioned to the right of Larry Bell, but was eventually obscured by Johnny Weissmuller in the final image.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b c Miles, Barry (1998). The Beatles: A Diary. Omnibus Press, London. p. 236. ISBN 978-0711963153. 
  2. ^ a b James Sullivan (2007). "Where's Brando?". The Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/03/25/wheres_brando/. Retrieved 17 January 2009. 
  3. ^ a b Greg Bennett (2007). "Shooting Sgt. Pepper". Daily Mirror (UK). http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2007/05/31/shooting-sgt-pepper-89520-19223305/. Retrieved 17 January 2009. 
  4. ^ a b Anthony Barnes (2007). "Where's Adolf? The mystery of Sgt Pepper is solved". Belfast Telegraph. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/music/news/wheres-adolf-the-mystery-of-sgt-pepper-is-solved-13411115.html. Retrieved 17 January 2009. 

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