![]() ![]() ![]() At the time album covers typically cost around £50 to produce, but the final cost of the Sgt Pepper cover was almost £3,000 – a sum unheard of in those days. Originally John Lennon had requested that Jesus, Hitler and Gandhi be included, but these were considered too provocative. The rest of the figures were made up of two-dimensional celebrity faces, which Blake and Haworth created by pasting 57 black and white figures onto hardboard – Haworth then tinted them by hand. The front row is three-dimensional with The Beatles standing in the middle and behind them mannequins, waxworks (borrowed from Madame Tussauds) and life-size dolls. The cover features a total of 71 figures on the cover. Sgt Pepper’s album cover was designed by pop artist Peter Blake and his then wife, Jann Haworth, from an ink drawing by Paul McCartney. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
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