The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - 1967

The entire lyrics were printed on the back cover. It was the first time this had been done on a rock LP.

The final cost for the cover art was nearly £3.000 (equivalent to £46.104 today).
An extravagant sum for a time when album covers would typically cost around £50.

The whole epochal art project proved about 60 times more expensive than any cover made before. Its influence has been immeasurable.
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