Beatles: Why Are There So Few Women on the 'Sgt. Pepper' Cover?

The cover of the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is iconic. No other image has perfectly captured the aesthetics of psychedelic art. Part of the cover’s appeal is the numerous famous faces on it.

Celebrities on the cover range from Bob Dylan to Lewis Carroll. The cover depicts 65 individuals in total – real and fictional. Oddly enough, only a few of the faces on the cover are women. Why is this?

What was the idea behind the famous Sgt. Pepper cover? Well, the faces on the cover were supposed to be the Beatles’ heroes. Jann Haworth, one of the designers of the cover, said the selection process was “was completely open-ended.” Surprisingly, the Beatles didn’t choose enough people to be on the cover to create a whole crowd.

Source: cheatsheet.com

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