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 creative vision dominated at the expense of all commercial concerns. The album influenced Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's", the Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" and the Mothers of Invention's "We're Only in It for the Money", the last of which parodied the "Sgt. Pepper" cover collage. Everett characterises "Their Satanic Majesties Request" and the Small Faces' "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" as "Sgt. Pepper" "copycat LPs". During the 1970s, glam rock acts co-opted the Beatles' use of alter ego personas. In Moore's description, the album "seems to have spoken (in a way no other has) for its generation". It