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the beatles sgt. pepper album

The cover of Sgt. Pepper's was designed by the English pop artist Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, an American pop artist. Many of the people pictured on the cover were people that the Beatles admired. Mouse over the picture to see an illustration then match the numbers with the list to see who is on the album cover.

The Beatles Sgt. Pepper Album

The list of celebrities is impressive and this is a description of their notoriety.

1. Sri Yukteswar was a Kriya yogi, a Vedic astrologer, a scholar of the Bhagavad Gita and the Bible, an educator and an astronomer.
2. Aleister Crowley was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, mountaineer and he founded the religion of Thelema.
3. Mae West was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, comedian, and sex symbol. She was ahead of her time with her sexual innuendos and how she mocked the puritanical society. Her early films caused the movie studios to establish the Motion Picture Production Code, which regulated what content could be shown or said in pictures.
4. Lenny Bruce was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, and satirist who is renowned for paving the way for outspoken comedians, his trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech in the United States.
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen, a German composer that was one of the most important and controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, for introducing controlled chance into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
6. W.C. Fields was an American comedian, actor, writer and an internationaly renowed juggler. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs and children. He is enshrined in the Juggling Hall of Fame.
7. Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies.
8. Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre.
9. Fred Astaire is widely regarded as one of the most influential dancers in the history of film and television musicals. He also was a singer, actor, choreographer and television presenter.
10. Richard Merkin, a painter and illustrator whose fascination with the 1920s and 1930s defined his art and shaped his identity as a professional dandy (a man unduly devoted to style, neatness, and fashion in dress and appearance).
11. The Varga Girl is a pin-up girl drawn by Alberto Vargas, he is often considered to be one of the most famous of the pin-up artists.
12. Leo Gorcey was an actor who became famous for portraying the leader of the group of young hooligans known as the Dead End Kids, The East Side Kids, and as an adult, The Bowery Boys.
13. Huntz Hall was a radio, theatrical, and motion picture performer noted primarily for his roles in the Dead End Kids and the Bowery Boys movies.
14. Simon Rodia was an Italian-American artist who created the Watts Towers. They are a National Historic Landmark, that is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places, California State Historic Monument, California State Historic Park, and a Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Monument.
15. Bob Dylan is a singer-songwriter, author, and painter who has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for more than five decades and has sold more than 40 million albums.
16. Aubrey Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. His career lasted just seven years before succumbing to tuberculosis, he developed a reputation as one of the most controversial artists of his time.
17. Sir Robert Peel was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing and as one of the founders of the modern Conservative Party.
18. Aldous Huxley, an English novelist and critic gifted with an acute and far-ranging intelligence. His works are notable for their wit and pessimistic satire, though he remains best known for the novel, Brave New World.
19. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos. His personal life was punctuated by reckless bouts of drinking.
20. Terry Southern was a novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and university lecturer, noted for his distinctive satirical style. Part of the Paris postwar literary movement in the 1950s and a companion to Beat writers in Greenwich Village, Southern was also at the center of Swinging London in the 1960s and helped to change the style and substance of American films in the 1970s.
21. Dion is an American singer, songwriter and was one of the most popular American rock and roll performers of the pre-British Invasion era. He had 39 Top 40 hits and is best remembered for "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer".
22. Tony Curtis was an American film actor whose career spanned six decades and acted in more than 100 films in roles covering a wide range of genres, from light comedy to serious drama. He made numerous television appearances and starred in the TV series "The Persuaders" with Roger Moore.
23. Wallace Berman was an American visual and assemblage artist. He has been called the father of assemblage art and a crucial figure in the history of postwar California art.
24. Thomas Handley was a British comedian, mainly known for the BBC radio program "It's That Man Again". He died at the age of 56 and 10,000 mourners flocked to his funeral.
25. Marilyn Monroe was an American actress, model, and singer. Famous for playing a comic blonde bombshell character, she became one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and was emblematic of the era's attitudes towards sexuality. More than half a century later, she continues to be a major popular culture icon.
26. William S. Burroughs was a Beat Generation writer known for his startling, nontraditional accounts of drug culture, most famously in the book Naked Lunch.
27. Mahavatar Babaji is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples. Paramahansa Yogananda has written that the deathless avatar has resided for untold years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, revealing himself only to a blessed few.
28. Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer and film director, who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy.
29. Richard Lindner was one of the foremost figure painters of the twentieth century. He is famous the world over for his portrayals of fascinating and ferocious women.
30. Oliver Hardy was an American comic actor and one half of Laurel and Hardy, the duo began in the era of silent films and lasted 25 years.
31. Karl Marx was a philosopher, social scientist, historian and revolutionary he is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker to emerge in the 19th century.
32. H.G. Wells was an English writer and was prolific in many genres writing dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, satire, biography, and autobiography, including two books on war games. He is best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the father of science fiction.
33. Paramhansa Yogananda was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced millions of Indians and westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his organization Yogoda Satsanga Society of India and Self-Realization Fellowship. His book, Autobiography of a Yogi is considered a spiritual masterpiece
34. An anonymous wax dummy.
35. Stuart Sutcliffe was a Scottish painter and musician best known as the original bass guitarist for the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the band to pursue his career as a painter.
36. Another anonymous wax dummy.
37. Max Miller aka "The Cheeky Chappie" was an English comedian who was widely regarded as the greatest stand-up comedian of his generation. He was known for his flamboyant suits, his wicked charm, and his risque' jokes which often got him into trouble with the censors.
38. The Pretty Girl by George Petty. George Petty was an American pin-up artist whose pin-up art appeared primarily in Esquire and Fawcett Publications's True but was also in calendars marketed by Esquire, True and Ridgid Tool Company. Petty's Esquire gatefolds originated and popularized the magazine device of centerfold spreads.
39. Marlon Brando was an American actor and film director. He is credited with bringing realism to film acting, helping to popularize the Stanislavski system of acting.
40. Tom Mix was an American film actor and the star of many early Western. Mix appeared in 291 films, all but nine of which were silent movies. He was Hollywood's first Western star and helped define the genre as it emerged in the early days of the cinema.
41. Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
42. Tyrone Power was one of the great romantic swashbuckling stars of the mid-twentieth century, and the third Tyrone Power of four in a famed acting dynasty reaching back to the eighteenth century.
43. Larry Bell is an American artist best known for his Vapor Drawings. These works, like his sculptures, employ a vacuum chamber, nickel chrome alloy, rag paper and mylar strips, to create improvised abstractions. Using electric currents and pure oxygen, he vaporizes the alloy which settles as a fine coating on the paper.
44. Dr. David Livingstone was an explorer, missionary, and anti-slavery campaigner. He became a great hero of the Victorian era for his epic discoveries in the heart of unexplored Africa. He spent the last six years of his life almost cut off from the outside world, refusing to leave his beloved Africa.
45. Johnny Weissmuller was an Austro-Hungarian-born American competition swimmer and actor, best known for playing Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century.
46. Stephen Crane was one of America's most influential realist writers he produced works that have been credited with establishing the foundations of modern American naturalism. He is best know for his novel, The Red Badge of Courage and died at the age of 28.
47. Issy Bonn was a British Jewish actor, singer and comedian, most famous for his recording of My Yiddishe Momme.
48. George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist. He wrote more than sixty plays and became the leading dramatist of his generation, in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
49. H.C. Westermann was a highly influential and important American sculptor and printmaker whose art constituted a scathing commentary on militarism and materialism. His sculptures frequently incorporated traditional carpentry and marquetry techniques.
50. Albert Stubbins was an English footballer. He played in the position of centre forward, although his career was limited by the onset of World War II. He gained most of his fame and success playing for Liverpool where he won the League Championship in 1947.
51. Lahiri Mahasaya was a master of yoga and disciple of the great Mahavatar Babaji, Lahiri Mahasaya lived as an accountant and family man by day, and guru by night. He never slept, instead spending all night instructing his disciples and he is best known for reviving Kriya Yoga.
52. Lewis Carol was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
53. T.E. Lawrence was a British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer. He was renowned for his liaison role during the Sinai and Palestine Campaign and the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. The breadth and variety of his activities and associations, and his ability to describe them vividly in writing, earned him international fame as Lawrence of Arabia.
54. Sonny Liston was an American boxer who became the world heavyweight champion in 1962 and 1963. He was defeated by Cassius Clay ,later known as Muhammad Ali, in 1964 and died of mysterious circumstances in 1970.
55. A George Petty pin-up girl.
56. Wax model of George Harrison.
57. Wax model of John Lennon.
58. A partial picture of Shirley Temple.
59. Wax model of Ringo Starr.
60. Wax model of Paul McCartney.
61. Albert Einstein was a German-born physicist who developed the general theory of relativity. He is considered one of the most influential physicists of the 20th century
62. John Lennon
63. Ringo Starr
64. Paul McCartney
65. George Harrison
66. Bobby Breen (Isadore Borsuk) was a Canadian-born American actor and singer. He was a popular child singer during the 1930s and reached major popularity with film and radio appearances.
67. Marlene Dietrich was a German actress and singer who held both German and American citizenship. Throughout her long career, (from the 1910s to the 1980s) she maintained popularity by continually reinventing herself.
68. Mohandas Ghandi, painted out for EMI
69. Legionaire from the Buffalos.
70. Diana Dors was an actress that was called Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe.
71. Shirley Temple was an American actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat who was Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a child actress from 1935 to 1938.
72. Grandmother-figure by Jann Haworth. Jann Haworth is a US pop artist and a pioneer of soft sculpture, she is best known as the co-creator of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover.
73. Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann Haworth.
74. Mexican candlestick
75. Television set
76. Stone figure of girl
77. Stone figure
78. Statue from John Lennon's house.
79. Trophy
80. Four-armed Indian Doll
81. Drum skin, designed by Joe Ephgrave. This artist is a mystery and some believe his name is fictious.
82. Hookah
83. Velvet snake
84. Japanese stone figure
85. Stone figure of Snow White
86. Garden gnome
87.Tuba

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