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 creative vision dominated at the expense of all commercial concerns. The album influenced Jefferson Airplane's "After Bathing at Baxter's", the Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" and the Mothers of Invention's "We're Only in It for the Money", the last of which parodied the "Sgt. Pepper" cover collage. Everett characterises "Their Satanic Majesties Request" and the Small Faces' "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" as "Sgt. Pepper" "copycat LPs". During the 1970s, glam rock acts co-opted the Beatles' use of alter ego personas. In Moore's description, the album "seems to have spoken (in a way no other has) for its generation". It