Collage In music, with the advances on recording technology, avant-garde artists started experimenting with cutting and pasting since the middle of the twentieth century. In the 1960s, George Martin created collages of recordings while producing the records of The Beatles. In 1967 pop artist Peter Blake made the collage for the cover of the Beatles seminal album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". In the 1970s and 1980s, the likes of Christian Marclay and the group Negativland reappropriated old audio in new ways. By the 1990s and 2000s, with the popularity of the sampler, it became apparent that "musical collages" had
Album era "A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector" (1963), the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" (1965), the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" (1966), the Mothers of Invention's "Freak Out!" (1966), and the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967). In reference to the Beatles' "Rubber Soul", "Revolver" (1966) and "Sgt. Pepper" and the Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds", writer Bill Martin noted: "In the wake of these albums, many rock musicians took up the 'complete album approach.'" "Rolling Stone" assistant editor Andy Greene felt that "Sgt. Pepper's" "was the beginning of the album era. It was the big bang of albums." According to