Sir Peter Blake Designs Latest Album Cover For The Who

Pop artist and local resident has illustrated band's first album in thirteen years

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Chiswick resident Sir Peter Blake, one of the country's foremost artists, has created the album artwork for The Who's new album, their first in thirteen years.

Sir Peter, who became famous for designing The Beatles' Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Blake’s has created a design featuring a medley of cultural icons in a colourful grid of references.

Most famous as a pop artist, he has included Muhammad Ali, Batman, the Union Flag, the Routemaster bus and baked beans, alongside his trademark of colourful symbols and typography.

Locally he is also associated with the Chiswick Timeline, the artwork of the 'Chiswick Empire' on what is known locally as Chiswick's 'Fourth Plinth' on Turnham Green Terrace, and with the Camellia Festival at Chiswick House and Gardens.

Image from the Who vlog by Pete Townshend meeting Sir Peter last January to discuss the cover

The rock band, one of whose members, Roger Daltry, also had Chiswick connections, sold over 100 million records during their heyday.

Sir Peter has known the members of The Who since the 1960s, and had also designed and contributed a painting to the sleeve of their 1981 album Face Dances.

The album, which was released on 22 November, includes themes such as “the Grenfell Tower fire, musical theft, spirituality, reincarnation, the power of memory and an old rock star that has lost his marbles.”

November 29, 2019