This morning was so beautifully sunny that I couldn’t wait to take the trip to London and do some sightseeing. I took another Soundmap walking tour, this time to Chelsea’s Kings Road, the site of swinging London and the birthplace of punk. One of the stops on the tour was this building, Chelsea Manor Studios where the famous cover of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was shot. The audio tour has a sound byte from Peter Blake, who created the collage of cardboard cut-outs of famous people that all had to be assembled in this studio for The Beatles to pose in front of. Since we live in the age of PhotoShop, it is hard to imagine the work that was put in to make this album cover.
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