Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Michael Cooper (1941-73) was a British photographer who is remembered for his images of leading rock musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s. His best-known work is the cover photography for Sgt. Pepper’s, but he also created the cover lenticular for the Rolling Stones’ LP Their Satanic Majesties Request. He died by suicide, after becoming caught in a spiral of depression and heroin addiction.
The creation of arguably the most iconic album cover ever produced involved a misheard request for salt and pepper, Indian gurus, an art dealer nicknamed ‘Groovy Bob’, Day-Glo satin uniforms, specially made props, pop art legend Peter Blake and a young photographer who died tragically within six years of shooting the cover; it can only be Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club.
