There are 64 people on the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band. If the record were to be released today, and I were able to choose
who should appear on the cover, here’s who I’d pick:
- Buzz Aldrin
- Anne, Queen of Great Britain
- Louis Armstrong
- Neil Armstrong
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Ronnie Barker
- Dave Brubeck
- Lewis Carroll
- Catherine, Duchess of Cornwall
- Winston Churchill
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Ronnie Corbett
- Oliver Cromwell
- Marie Curie
- Miles Davis
- Charles Dickens
- Bob Dylan
- Albert Einstein
- Elizabeth I
- Brian Epstein
- Richard Feynman
- Michael Flanders
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Gershwin
- Eric Gill
- Johannes Gutenberg
- George Harrison
- Jimi Hendrix
- Catherine Hepburn
- Henry VIII
- Carole Hersee
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Howard Hughes
- David Jason
- John Maynard Keynes
- Stanley Kubrick
- John Lennon
- Abraham Lincoln
- Ada Lovelace
- George Martin
- Chico Marx
- Groucho Marx
- Harpo Marx
- Karl Marx
- Paul McCartney
- Marilyn Monroe
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Isaac Newton
- George Orwell
- Jimmy Page
- Paul Rand
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- William Shakespeare
- Joseph Stalin
- Ringo Starr
- Igor Stravinsky
- Donald Swann
- Nikola Tesla
- Alan Turing
- Mark Twain
- Beatrice Warde
- George Washington
- Oscar Wilde
That’s 55 men, 9 women; 10 were living at the time this list was compiled.
(The similarity of these figures to those of Sean’s list is entirely
coincidental!)