Paul McCartney February 1967, and the LP followed in June. McCartney's "She's Leaving Home" was an orchestral pop song. MacDonald described the track as "[among] the finest work on "Sgt. Pepper"—imperishable popular art of its time". Based on an ink drawing by McCartney, the LP's cover included a collage designed by pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth, featuring the Beatles in costume as the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, standing with a host of celebrities. The heavy moustaches worn by the Beatles reflected the growing influence of hippie style trends on the band, while their clothing "spoofed the vogue in
The Beatles (album) "should surely see the last vestiges of cultural snobbery and bourgeois prejudice swept away in a deluge of joyful music making". Richard Goldstein of "The New York Times" considered the double album to be "a major success" and "far more imaginative" than "Sgt. Pepper" or "Magical Mystery Tour", due to the band's improved songwriting and their relying less on the studio tricks of those earlier works. In "The Sunday Times", Derek Jewell hailed it as "the best thing in pop since "Sgt. Pepper"" and concluded: "Musically, there is beauty, horror, surprise, chaos, order. And that is the world; and that