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
The Beatles (album) "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making". Richard Goldstein of "The New York Times" considered the double album to be "a major success" and "far more imaginative" than "Sgt. Pepper" or "Magical Mystery Tour", due to the band's improved songwriting and their relying less on the studio tricks of those earlier works. In "The Sunday Times", Derek Jewell hailed it as "the best thing in pop since "Sgt. Pepper"" and concluded: "Musically, there is beauty, horror, surprise, chaos, order. And that is the world; and that