It was 50 years ago today: Shooting the Sgt Pepper album cover

The uncropped and unaltered Sgt Pepper front cover setup

Just a quick post to honour the fiftieth anniversary of the photo session for the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover. Peter Blake and his then wife Jann Haworth conceived the idea, and assembled the various elements with assistance from a number of people. Michael Cooper is credited as the photographer, but it was mainly his assistant who operated the camera while Cooper directed the shoots.
Here are some useful links re the cover photo session:

• TheBeatles.com (some black and whites from the day + two outtake front cover photos)
• Beatlesource.com (a large collection of outtakes, note that the ones where The Beatles are holding guitars are fakes)
• The Beatles Bible

The Daily Beatle-articles about Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band from the archives:

• About the album cover
• Who is who on the Pepper cover?
  
• Where are the Sgt Pepper suits now?
  
• Sgt Pepper as a concept album
  
• Sgt Pepper's caravan reappears!
  
• My Sgt Pepper exhibition
  
• Advertising Sgt Pepper
  
• The Sgt Pepper TV