Seeing The World Today In A Modern Version Of "Sgt. Pepper's" Album Cover

Sampul "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Sumber: thebeatles.com)

JAKARTA - The album cover "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is the most iconic work in the history of the music industry. The Beatles featured dozens of celebrities and world figures from the 19th century on the cover of the album. Now, the modern version of the album is updated for the 21st century.

The update was made by German artist TrippieSteff. In a new illustrated version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," TrippieSteff has Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Drake, and Lil Nax X in the place of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

Apart from the four, TrippieSteff also provides a place for celebrities, world figures, and other icons of modern pop culture. For example, Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, Space X boss Elon Musk, former US president Barack Obama, to No Face, the iconic ghost from the film Spirited Away.

In the cover of the original album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", The Beatles featured 71 world minds. They consist of celebrities, world figures, to pop culture icons of the 19th century. Among these figures, we can see a folk musician who is also a friend of The Beatles, Bob Dylan.

In addition, there are also Richard Lindner, Oliver Hardy, Marilyn Monroe, The Godfather star Marlon Brando, writer Oscar Wilde, to the bassist for The Beatles before Paul, Stuart Sutcliffe. Other figures, from the genius Albert Einstein to the communist Karl Marx, can also be seen on the cover.

"The original cover (of the album) is the joining of big figures who portray the dominant mindset in the late 60s," said TrippieSteff quoted by NME, Sunday, November 17.

"It (the characters on the cover) was also a group of influential figures who were 'heroes' to The Beatles. With the desire to keep the same theme, I chose to present the most iconic and influential figure in the last decade," added TrippieSteff.

The original version of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (thebeatles.com)

This updated version of the album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is part of a classic album cover remake project that TrippieSteff is currently working on. In addition to "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", TrippieSteff has also remade covers of Blondie, "Parallel Lines" and Nirvana, "Nevermind".

Here's a complete list of celebrities, world figures, and pop culture icons in the modern version of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band":

1. Kanye West

2. Drake

3. Taylor Swift

4. Lil Nas X

5. Greta Thunberg

6. Kylie Jenner

7. Ghost from Chihiro

8. Jamie Oliver

9. Slavoj Zizek

10. Björk

11. Jannis Varoufakis

12. Marina Abramovic

13. Avicii

14. Miley Cyrus

15. AOC

16. Kendrick Lamar

17.Donna Haraway

18 XXXTentacion

19. Lil Peep

20. Ru Paul

21. Judith Butler

22. Millie Bobby Brown

23. Martha Nussbaum

24. Bernie Sanders

25. MIA

26. Bell Hooks

27. Ai Weiwei

28. Elon Musk

29. Margaret Atwood

30. Bojack Horseman

31. Beyonce Knowles

32. Barack Obama

Modern illustration of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Instagram / @ trippiesteff)