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 works it inspired, and its ongoing recognition as "a defining moment in the history of music". The album inspired the 1974 off-Broadway musical "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road", directed by Tom O'Horgan, and the 1978 film "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", produced by Robert Stigwood. In 1977, the LP won Best British Album at the inaugural Brit Awards. It has been the subject of many tribute albums, including a multi-artist CD available with the March 2007 issue of "Mojo" and a 2009 live album, "Sgt. Pepper Live", by the American band Cheap Trick. Other tribute