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
Revolver (Beatles album) everything Sgt Pepper did, except it did it first and often better. It just wasn’t as well-packaged and marketed." Rodriguez writes that, whereas most contemporary acts shy away from attempting a concept album in the vein of "Sgt. Pepper", the prototype established by "Revolver", whereby an album serves as an "eclectic collection of diverse songs", continues to influence modern popular music. He characterises "Revolver" as "the Beatles' artistic high-water mark" and notes that, unlike "Sgt. Pepper", it was the product of a collaborative effort, with "the group as a whole being fully vested in creating Beatle music". "Revolver" has appeared