Who's Still Alive From the 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' Cover?

 Of the many famous figures featured on the iconic 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover, only Bob Dylan, Dion DiMucci, and artist Larry Bell are still alive today, aside from surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.
Each of these three survivors—Dylan, DiMucci, and Bell—continues to be active in their respective fields of music and art, maintaining their cultural relevance decades later. Italian actress Sophia Loren, though originally intended to appear on the cover, was ultimately not visible in the final image but is also still alive at age 91.

The cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released on June 1, 1967, is one of the most studied images in pop culture history. Packed with writers, actors, artists, gurus, and cultural rebels, for many, it became a list of the era’s most notable people.

More than half a century later, most of those faces are long gone, making the few survivors all the more remarkable. Excluding Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr of the Beatles, who are still very much with us, only three people pictured on the cover are alive today—though one additional person who was supposed to be on the cover but isn’t visible is also still around. Bob Dylan (84)

American folk pop singer Bob Dylan at a press conference in London. Dylan’s inclusion on the top row was reportedly John Lennon‘s idea, and it makes perfect sense. By 1967, Dylan had already reshaped songwriting and pushed folk into rock. These days, he’s still recording and touring. He remains very popular, as evidenced by the success of his recent biopic, A Complete Unknown.
Dion DiMucci (86)

Dion appears in the second row, included by artist Peter Blake, who admired him deeply. Long before he was known for introspective songwriting, Dion was a Bronx kid who helped bring doo-wop and early rock into the mainstream. Songs like “Runaround Sue” and “The Wanderer” were already part of the cultural fabric by the mid-1960s. He is still releasing music and sometimes playing live, though he is often seen relaxing at his home in Florida on social media. 

Artist Larry Bell attends the screening of Dennis Hopper's "The Last Movie" during Paris Photo Los Angeles at Paramount Studios on April 25, 2014 in Hollywood, California.  Larry Bell is one of the quieter names on the Sgt. Pepper cover, but his importance shouldn’t be underestimated. A key figure in the Light and Space movement, Bell was part of the West Coast art scene that was redefining perceptions of materials and minimalism in the 1960s. His inclusion reflects how wide-ranging the album’s cultural net really was. Bell is still alive today, and his work continues to be exhibited.

The famously breathtaking Italian movie star, along with Jesus, Gandhi and several others, was originally supposed to be on the cover, but didn’t make the final cut. According to behind-the-scenes photos, a cut-out of her was placed behind the wax version of the Beatles, and thus blocked in the final photo.

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