Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover Reworked To Feature Artists That Passed In 2016
And here’s the key for the artwork: Looking back on 2016….honestly, do we even want to? It was a tough one, for many reasons, especially for the music community at large, with the loss of some of its biggest stars. Using the album cover for The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, replacing images from the original artwork, Twitter user Christhebarker created an illustration featuring the various artists, actors, and icons that were all lost in 2016.You can see the image below: Nobody would deny that this has been an extremely tough year for the music world. Beginning with the death of David Bowie back in January, the hits kept coming and just never let seemed to let up. Not even for one second. Many of us would argue that the sad state of affairs started in December, 2015, with the deaths of Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland and Motörhead bassist Lemmy Kilmister. 2016 did not start off on a good note, and once it did, our heads didn’t stop spinning.Following the news of Bowie’s demise was Eagles singer/guitarist Glenn Frey, into famous Beatles producer George Martin, then Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer in March came soon after, and country legend Merle Haggard. As if that wasn’t enough right there, when the shocking news that Prince had met his fate was announced, the world went into a deep and somber state of mourning.Bernie Worrell, the Master of the Moog himself, left us in June after a long battle with cancer, and RatDog’s Rob Wasserman right after that. The list goes on and on….Leonard Cohen (who almost prophesied his end)….Sharon Jones….Greg Lake (the 2nd member of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer in one year). And this was all just within the music community. 2017 can’t come soon enough. It has to be better than 2016, right? We certainly need it to be.