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Focus Daily News’ Advertising Executive Wendy Lee was part of the opening act chosen to sing and warm up the audience

Music to reach a huge new audience by doing album covers. yeah. and we have to talk about the album covers. we have to. we have to talk about one in particular, even though i think, over years, you've become sick of talking about it. i've talked about it a lot. but i'm happy to. sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club, 1967.- perhaps the most iconic record album cover of all time. it was an extraordinary piece cos it involved you, your then wife jann, working, actually, very closely with the fab four, with the beatles themselves, to get this image right. yeah. how difficult was it to get it right...

I had this idea that, by working the way we were, this crowd who had gathered around this fictitious band of sergeant pepper could be anybody. i mean, literally anybody that one could say a name to could be there. so in doing that, i made a list, jan made a list, robert fraser a the list, and the beatles each made a list. is it true thatjohn lennon wanted adolf hitler to be in the background? as a joke. he never... we did actually make him, and on some of the outtakes, there is this little figure of hitler. the ones that didn't make it were hitler, jesus... mahatma gandhi. it captures somethin...

Interest in popular music, sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club, 1967 — perhaps the most iconic record album cover of all time. it was an extraordinary piece,

Of fantasy, but it's also got a sort of innocence to it as well, a nostalgia. it was a moment when... i think the beatles possibly peaked around that time anyway. and some of their greatest songs are on sergeant pepper. i mean, i think the song sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band as a song is a great anthem. i mean, when i hear it now, it's a great... it's not used enough as an anthem. and here we sit talking about it, talking about your work on that album cover. and you've done so much else over six prolific decades of art, and yet so many people will always say, oh yeah, peter blake, t...