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 would sometimes annoy his bandmates, "Paul appreciated John's contribution on "Pepper". In terms of quantity, it wasn't great, but in terms of quality, it was enormous." In the "NME"s article "25 Albums With The Most Incredible Production", in 2014, Emily Barber described "Sgt. Pepper" as "kaleidoscopic" and an "orchestral baroque pop masterpiece the likes of which has rarely been matched since". Inglis notes that almost every account of the significance of "Sgt. Pepper" emphasises the cover's "unprecedented correspondence between music and art, time and space". After its release, album sleeves were no longer "a superfluous thing to be discarded during