Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was the Beatles' eighth studio album and it was released in June 1967. It includes songs like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and A Day in the Life and it became one of the best-selling albums of all time The iconic album cover was designed by the English Pop artist Peter Blake. It shows the band posing in front ofa collage of some oftheir favourite celebrities. The celebrities include the actors Marlon Brando, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe the writer Oscar Wilde, the psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, the singer Bob Dylan and the comedians Laurel and Hardy. Peter Blake later complained that he was only paid 200 for what became one ofthe most famous album coftrs ever