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Copyright: Pepper corn

Caroline Boucher, The Observer, 23 March 1997

ONE OF the most famous album covers of all time is about to become the subject of bitter legal wrangling. Peter Blake, 64, designed the Sergeant Pepper record sleeve for the Beatles in 1967; he was paid £200 for his work and never received another penny.

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