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It featured the Beatles themselves wearing day-glo military-style outfits, surrounded by lifesize cardboard cut-outs of their heroes including writers, musicians, film stars and a number of Indian gurus. Wilde's face can be seen seventh from the left in the third row down. The collage also featured Madame Tussaud's wax-work figures of The Beatles as they appeared in the early 1960s.\r\n\r\nPeter Blake (b.1932) and Jann Haworth (b.1942) assembled the collage over two weeks at the end of March 1967, and took the cover shots in a three-hour session on March 30. Blake was chosen for the shoot by The Beatles' art director, Robert Fraser (1937-1986), as Fraser was a leading champion of British modern art in the 1960s. Blake was one of the best known British pop artists, with his paintings including imagery from advertisements, music hall and wrestlers, often using collage elements. He combined this pop culture aesthetic with direct references to other artists' work. 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