Someone just bought the most expensive album insert ever. An auction house in the UK just sold Peter Blake’s pop art collage that was used to create the insert for the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for approximately $87,000, according to a report in the BBC.
The work, which Blake and collaborator Jann Haworth created specifically for the landmark album, features a collection of images including the titular military man and the band in full Sergeant Pepper garb. Copies of the art work were created as album inserts that were intended to be cut out with scissors. Now, however, the uncut inserts are a prized commodity, but none of them would fetch a price as close to the one that an anonymous buyer paid for the original work.
James Rawlin, the senior specialist on English paintings for Soethby’s auction house, called Blake’s piece “a tangible slice of rock history.” Hope no one took a pair of scissors to it.
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