Peter Blake (artist) Peter Blake (artist) Sir Peter Thomas Blake (born 25 June 1932) is an English pop artist, best known for co-creating the sleeve design for the Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". His other best known works include the cover of the Band Aid single "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the Live Aid concert poster. Blake also designed the 2012 Brit Award statuette. One of the best known British pop artists, Blake is considered to be a prominent figure in the pop art movement. Central to his paintings are his interest in images from popular culture which have
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band both began to cover rock music for the first time, with the latter changing its name to "Jazz & Pop" as a result. In addition, following "Sgt. Pepper", established American publications such as "Vogue", "Playboy" and the "San Francisco Chronicle" started discussing rock as art, in terms usually reserved for jazz criticism. Writing for "Rolling Stone" in 1969, Michael Lydon said that reviewers had had to invent "new criticism" to match pop's musical advances, since: "Writing had to be an appropriate response to the music; in writing about, say, "Sgt. Pepper", you had to try to write something as good