It’s a little-known fact that Sir Peter Blake created alternative covers to the album, which were discarded in favour of the famous one. The alternative uses the familiar collage backdrop to the original, but makes some small alterations including the positions of each Beatle. The alternate arrangement depicts Ringo Starr beside a tuba and Intellectual Property, markets and creativity. The legacy of Sergeant Pepper underpins our approach to business, intellectual property, creativity and art. The album transformed pop music from ephemera into culture. More than that, it exemplified the productive relationship between art and markets that underpins today’s creative industries. None of the Beatles appear on the Sgt Pepper’s album cover. Instead, the album cover features an eclectic mix of famous figures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, and Karl Marx. Alongside these iconic figures are a number of lesser-known personalities such as Shirley Temple, Lenny Bruce, and A photograph of the Jim Mac Jazz Band and their audience from the 1920s. The band was named after James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney. Jim McCartney is seated third to the right of the bass drum. The basic structure for the Sgt. Pepper album cover came from an old photograph of McCartney’s father’s band (the Jim Mac Jazz Band), in Sgt. Pepper was a worldwide critical and commercial success, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart. A seminal work in the emerging psychedelic rock style, the album was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy Awards in 1968. In 1994, it was ranked number one in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ Cover Art: A Guide to Who’s Who. Ultimate Classic Rock Staff Updated: June 3, 2015. Capitol. The Beatles ’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is often A Beatles sleeve which features the faces of music executives in place of the Fab Four has been named the world's rarest album cover. The adapted artwork for the Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club It was 53 years ago today (June 1st, 1967), that the Beatles released the legendary Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album in the U.K. The album, which was released a day later in the U.S., was one of the most groundbreaking and influential records in history. There had been an unprecedented eight-month gap with no new Beatles music since the group's previous album, 1966's Revolver, with The film covers all of the songs from the Sgt. Pepper album with the exceptions of "Within You, Without You" and "Lovely Rita", and also includes nearly all of Abbey Road. The production was loosely adapted from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road, a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom O'Horgan. 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. TX2gK.