Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "A Day in the Life". Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick helped realise the group's ideas by approaching the studio as an instrument, applying orchestral overdubs, sound effects and other methods of tape manipulation. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. "Sgt. Pepper" is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band recordings include "Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father", a multi-artist charity compilation released by the "NME" in 1988, and Big Daddy's 1992 "Sgt. Pepper" album, a release that Moore recognised as "the most audacious" of all the interpretations of the Beatles' LP up to 1997. All songs written by Lennon–McCartney, except "Within You Without You" by George Harrison. Track lengths and lead vocals per Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald. On 26 May 2017, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was reissued for the album's 50th anniversary as a six-disc box set. The first CD contains a new stereo remix of the