Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" and "A Day in the Life". Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick helped realise the group's ideas by approaching the studio as an instrument, applying orchestral overdubs, sound effects and other methods of tape manipulation. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. "Sgt. Pepper" is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (film) narration. The film's soundtrack, released as an accompanying double album, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by the Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of the band's albums, 1967's "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and 1969's "Abbey Road". The film covers all of the songs from the "Sgt. Pepper" album with the exceptions of "Within You, Without You" and "Lovely Rita", and also includes nearly all of "Abbey Road". The production was loosely adapted from "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road", a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom O'Horgan. The film was