Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album carried on the childhood and Liverpool theme with its circus and fairground effects, its pervading atmosphere of the traditional northern music hall that was in both its main creators' [McCartney and Lennon's] blood." "Sgt. Pepper" album cover was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Blake recalled of the concept: "I offered the idea that if they had just played a concert in the park, the cover could be a photograph of the group just after the concert with the crowd who had just watched the concert, watching them. If we did this by using cardboard
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