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
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film) and "Rubber Soul". When asked about the film in a 1979 interview, George Harrison expressed his sympathy for Stigwood, Frampton and the Bee Gees, acknowledging that they had all worked hard to achieve success before making "Sgt. Pepper". He said of Frampton and the Bee Gees: "I think it's damaged their images, their careers, and they didn't "need" to do that. It's just like the Beatles trying to do the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones can do it better." When the Bee Gees regained control of their catalog, the "Sgt. Pepper" soundtrack was the only album that they did not