The Apartment Where the Beatles Shot Sgt. Pepper Album Cover Is for Sale for $1.6 Million | PEOPLE.com
An unassuming artist’s studio where Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club taught the band to play is for sale.
Originally built in 1902, London’s Chelsea Manor Studio 4 was owned in the 1960s by celebrity photographer Michael Cooper, who assembled the Beatles together for one night and ended up producing one of the most iconic photo sessions in pop music history: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr dressed as Edwardian-era musicians standing before a constructed background collage of 66 cardboard and wax figures.
The March 30, 1967 session was a culminating moment for the band. Having retired from performing live and while still recording the album they’d begun in November, the Beatles assembled in Chelsea to portray a fictional band who “had just played a concert in the park,” according to album designer Peter Blake.
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