Collage In music, with the advances on recording technology, avant-garde artists started experimenting with cutting and pasting since the middle of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, George Martin created collages of recordings while producing the records of The Beatles. In 1967 pop artist Peter Blake made the collage for the cover of the Beatles seminal album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". In the 1970s and 1980s, the likes of Christian Marclay and the group Negativland reappropriated old audio in new ways. By the 1990s and 2000s, with the popularity of the sampler, it became apparent that "musical collages" had
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band The album occupied the number one position on the "Billboard" Top LPs chart in the US for 15 weeks, from 1 July to 13 October 1967. With 2.5 million copies sold within three months of its release, "Sgt. Pepper"s initial commercial success exceeded that of all previous Beatles albums. "Sgt. Pepper" appeared on the "Billboard" albums chart in the US for 175 non-consecutive weeks through 1987. At the 10th Annual Grammy Awards in 1968, "Sgt. Pepper" won in the categories of Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts, Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical and Best Contemporary Album. It also won Album of the