Robert Fraser (art dealer) first met John Lennon. Fraser art-directed the cover for The Beatles' 1967 LP "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" – he dissuaded the group from using the original design, a psychedelic artwork created by the design collective The Fool, instead suggesting the pop artist, Peter Blake, who created the famous collage cover design. Fraser also gave McCartney a small painting of an apple by René Magritte which is believed to have been the inspiration for the name and logo of the Beatles' record company, Apple Records. It was also through Fraser that Richard Hamilton was selected to design the poster
The Beatles Anthology 3" was released on 28 October 1996. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from "The Beatles" ("White Album"), "Abbey Road" and "Let It Be", as well as several songs from Harrison and McCartney which later became post-Beatle tracks. The three album covers, when laid side-by-side, become one long painted collage of various peeling posters and album covers representing the different stages of the Beatles' career. This was the work of Klaus Voormann, who also created the album cover for "Revolver" in 1966. The "Anthology" covers required Voormann to recreate elements of his cover for "Revolver" within the collage. During