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
Experimental pop as "[seeming] to have done it all". Martin wrote that, along with the Rolling Stones' "Their Satanic Majesties Request" (1967), the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" "opened a space" for experimental pop which would be later filled by Jimi Hendrix, Jethro Tull, and the Who's "Tommy" (1968). Prior to "Sgt. Pepper", Gary Usher and Curt Boettcher were Los Angeles-based songwriters and producers who were interested in classical music and the avant-garde. Later cited as fixtures of sunshine pop, they worked together to create their debut studio album, "Present Tense" (1968). It was credited to Sagittarius, a studio group referred to as an