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Blake's cover of music icon celebrates the best of culture.
Updated : Nov 21, 2013, 01:44 PM IST
When it first appeared in 1967, the album cover of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band featured the style icons of the day, including Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando and Karl Marx.
The list of today's heroes, collated by Sir Peter Blake, the original designer, reveals a slightly more sedate bunch. The chefs Delia Smith and Mark Hix, the author JK Rowling and the designer Robin Day were chosen to recreate the album cover 45 years after the original was made, and to celebrate Sir Peter's 80th birthday.
He said: "I've chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends. I had a very long list of people who I wanted to go in but couldn't fit everyone in - I think that shows how strong British culture is."
He added: "The Sgt Pepper album cover was made by cutting pieces of cardboard and hand-colouring them. This one is computer generated. I often thought that if I did it again it would be very quick on the computer but it was very laborious."
The artwork will go on show at the Vintage Festival in July.
In the new version Sir Paul McCartney once again features alongside artists, film directors, musicians, writers, film stars and fashion designers, as well as Sir Peter and his family.
JK Rowling said: "Given that I've devoted quite a lot of time to gazing at the original Sgt Pepper album cover, you can perhaps imagine what it means to me to be selected."
Noel Gallagher, the musician, said: "It's nice to be recognised by as great an artist as Sir Peter Blake."
1. Amy Winehouse
2. Sir Paul Smith
3. Ian Curtis
4. Nick Park
5. Robin Day
6. Lucienne Day
7. Francis Bacon
8. Roald Dahl
9. Alfred Hitchcock
10. Lucian Freud
11. Kate Moss
12. Paul Weller
13. Sir Tom Stoppard
14. Danny Boyle
15. Sir Mick Jagger
16. Fanny Cradock
17. Mr Chow
18. David Chipperfield
19. Harold Pinter
20. David Bailey
21. Mary Quant
22. Anish Kapoor
23. JK Rowling
24. JRR Tolkein
25. Robyn Hitchcock
26. Sir Terence Conran
27. John Peel
28. Martin Parr
29. Sir Tim Berners Lee
30. John Hurt
31. Rick Stein
32. Sir Jonathan Ive
33. Sir David Lean
34. Sir David Attenborough
35. Bridget Riley
36. Sir Terrance Rattigan
37. Richard Curtis
38. Tommy Steele
39. Mark Hix
40. Vidal Sasson
41. Sir Ridley Scott
42. Justin de Villeneuve
43. Lord Norman Foster
44. Peter Saville
45. Tracey Emin
46. Sir Paul McCartney
47. Gavin Turk
48. Barbara Hulanicki
49. Agatha Christie
50. Delia Smith
51. David Bowie
52. Twiggy
53. Audrey Hepburn
54. Gary Oldman
55. Damien Hirst
56. Stella McCartney
57. Mary McCartney
58. Alexander McQueen
59. Dame Vivienne Westwood
60. Dame Helen Mirren
61. Grayson Perry
62. Wreckless Eric
63. David Hockney
64. Eric Clapton
65. Ian Dury
66. Sir Elton John
67. Chris Corbin
68. Jeremy King
69. Dame Shirley Bassey
70. Noel Gallagher
71. Richard Rogers
72. Elvis Costello
73. Liberty Blake
74. Chrissy Blake
75. Sir Peter Blake
76. Rose Blake
77. Daisy Blake
78. Monty Python foot
79. Victoria Vintage