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) Lennon compositions, as marking the start of a process whereby "Revolver" "steadily climbed in public estimation" to become recognised as the Beatles' finest work. In Britain, its supremacy over "Sgt. Pepper" was one of the cultural revisions established by the Britpop phenomenon in the 1990s. Writing on the BBC's website in August 2016, Greg Kot identified the "More popular than Christ" controversy and the attention subsequently afforded the release of "Sgt. Pepper" in 1967 as the two factors that had contributed to "Revolver" being relatively overlooked. Kot concluded that the ensuing decades had seen this impression reversed, since "Revolver" "does