John Lennon - Instant Karma. Random Notes Pictures - Jimmy Buffett and Wounded Warriors Celebrate the Largest Margarita Ever Made. Who Are All Those People In Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Spacious Planet. The album art from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles is one of the most popular album covers in music history. The cover is a collage of more than 60 famous people. Most of the people selected for the collage were requested by The Beatles. For example, George Harrison requested the three Hindu gurus who appear in the collage. Lennon requested Adolf Hitler, Mahatma Gandhi and Jesus Christ. However, Jesus and Hitler were rejected because the record label feared a public backlash. The record label was nervous because of the controversy over the US Butcher Cover a year earlier.
EMI needed the permission of all living persons in the collage, creating a nightmare for their legal department. The following is the complete list of all the people on the cover of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: Top Row- from left to rightYukteswar Giri - Hindu guru Aleister Crowley - Magician Mae West - Actress Lenny Bruce - Comedian Karlheinz Stockhausen - German Composer W. Fred Astaire - Actor. -