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List of images on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Top row:
- Sri Yukteswar Giri (Hindu guru)
- Aleister Crowley (occultist)
- Mae West (actress)
- Lenny Bruce (comedian)
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (composer)
- W. C. Fields (comedian/actor)
- Carl Gustav Jung (psychiatrist)
- Edgar Allan Poe (writer)
- Fred Astaire (actor/dancer)
- Richard Merkin (artist)
- The Vargas Girl (by artist Alberto Vargas)
- Huntz Hall (actor)
- Simon Rodia (designer and builder of the Watts Towers)
- Bob Dylan (singer/songwriter)
Second row:
- Aubrey Beardsley (illustrator)
- Sir Robert Peel (19th century British Prime Minister)
- Aldous Huxley (writer)
- Dylan Thomas (poet)
- Terry Southern (writer)
- Dion (singer)
- Tony Curtis (actor)
- Wallace Berman (artist)
- Tommy Handley (comedian)
- Marilyn Monroe (actress)
- William S. Burroughs (writer)
- Sri Mahavatar Babaji (Hindu guru)
- Stan Laurel (actor/comedian)
- Richard Lindner (artist)
- Oliver Hardy (actor/comedian)
- Karl Marx (political philosopher)
- H. G. Wells (writer)
- Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Hindu guru)
- Sigmund Freud (psychiatrist) - barely visible below Bob Dylan
- Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)
Third row:
- Stuart Sutcliffe (artist/former Beatle)
- Anonymous (hairdresser’s wax dummy)
- Max Miller (comedian)
- A “Petty Girl” (by artist George Petty)
- Marlon Brando (actor)
- Tom Mix (actor)
- Oscar Wilde (writer)
- Tyrone Power (actor)
- Larry Bell (artist)
- Dr. David Livingstone (missionary/explorer)
- Johnny Weissmuller (Olympic swimmer/Tarzan actor)
- Stephen Crane (writer) - barely visible between Issy Bonn’s head and raised arm
- Issy Bonn (comedian)
- George Bernard Shaw (playwright)
- H. C. Westermann (sculptor)
- Albert Stubbins (football player)
- Sri Lahiri Mahasaya (guru)
- Lewis Carroll (writer)
- T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”)
Front row:
- Wax model of Sonny Liston (boxer)
- A “Petty Girl” (by George Petty)
- Wax model of George Harrison
- Wax model of John Lennon
- Shirley Temple (child actress) - barely visible, first of three appearances on the cover
- Wax model of Ringo Starr
- Wax model of Paul McCartney
- Albert Einstein (physicist) - largely obscured
- John Lennon holding a French horn
- Ringo Starr holding a trumpet
- Paul McCartney holding a Cor Anglais
- George Harrison holding a flute
- Bobby Breen (singer)
- Marlene Dietrich (actress/singer)
- An American legionnaire[1]
- Diana Dors (actress)
- Shirley Temple (child actress) - second appearance on the cover
Other objects within the group include:
- Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth
- Cloth doll by Haworth of Shirley Temple wearing a sweater that reads “Welcome The Rolling Stones”
- A ceramic Mexican craft known as a Tree of Life from Metepec
- A 9-inch Sony television set, apparently owned by Paul McCartney - the receipt, bearing McCartney’s signature, is owned by a curator of a museum dedicated to The Beatles in Japan. [2]
- A stone figure of a girl
- Another stone figure
- A statue brought over from John Lennon’s house
- A trophy
- A doll of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
- A drum skin, designed by fairground artist Joe Ephgrave
- A hookah (water pipe)
- A velvet snake
- A Fukusuke, Japanese china figure
- A stone figure of Snow White
- A garden gnome
- A euphonium/baritone horn
People who were originally intended for the front cover but were ultimately excluded:
- Leo Gorcey - was modelled and originally included to the left of Huntz Hall, but was subsequently removed when a fee of $400 was requested for the use of the actor’s likeness.[3][4]
- Mohandas Gandhi - was modelled and originally included to the right of Lewis Carroll, but was subsequently removed.[3][4] According to McCartney, “Gandhi also had to go because the head of EMI, Sir Joe Lockwood, said that in India they wouldn’t allow the record to be printed”.[1]
- Jesus Christ - was requested by Lennon,[1] but not modelled because the LP would be released only a few months after Lennon’s Jesus statement.[5]
- Adolf Hitler - was modelled and was visible in early photographs of the montage, positioned to the right of Larry Bell, but was eventually obscured by Johnny Weissmuller in the final image.[5]
- Germán Valdés - was considered to appear in the first row, but he decclined the offer and suggested to replace his image by a mexican craftmanship known as “Tree of Life”. Ringo Starr agreed and placed it in the lower right corner of the cover.[6]