Originally, it was going to be a bunch of swirly blobs of varying shades of red. Instead, it became a psychedelic statement, an attention-grabbing wonder and the most iconic album cover in music history.
In the winter of 1967, The Beatles were hard at work in the studio, crafting the dense layers of sound that would eventually become the songs onSgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They commissioned their pals in the Dutch design collective The Fool to paint the album’s cover. Although The Fool would become well-known for other Beatles-related creations (including the psychedelic paintjob given to John Lennon’s Gibson J-160E, decorations bestowed on George Harrison’s Mini car and the huge mural on the band’s Apple Boutique), their cover for Sgt. Pepperdidn’t pan out.
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