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
We're Only in It for the Money Schenkel photographed a collage for the album cover, which parodied The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". Zappa spent US$4,000 () on the photo shoot, which he stated was "a direct negative" of the "Sgt. Pepper" album cover. "["Sgt. Pepper"] had blue skies ... we had a thunderstorm." Jimi Hendrix, a friend of Zappa, took part in the photo shoot, standing where a wax sculpture of Sonny Liston had appeared on the Beatles album cover. Zappa phoned Paul McCartney, seeking permission for the parody. McCartney told him that it was an issue for business managers, but Zappa responded that