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
Cover art Notable album cover art includes Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon, King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King," The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", Abbey Road and their ""White Album"" among others. Albums can have cover art created by the musician, as with Joni Mitchell's "Clouds", or by an associated musician, such as Bob Dylan's artwork for the cover of "Music From Big Pink", by The Band, Dylan's backup band's first album. Artists known for their album cover art include Alex Steinweiss, an early pioneer in album cover art, Roger Dean, and the Hipgnosis