Photo by Nigel Hartnup.
This album depicts the Beatles alter ego band.
Paul, John, George and Ringo are in the center – wearing neon colored (yellow, pink, blue, orange) outfits inspired by the British army.
They also all have mustaches on their faces and are holding some sort of instrument in their hands.
In front of them is a drum which reads: “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
On the bottom of the album “The Beatles” is spelled out in red flowers.
Surrounding the band, is picture inserts of their “fans.”
Including wax models of older versions of themselves from the beatlemania era, wearing suits and with mop top haircuts.
Their fans include:
Sri Yukteswar Giri, Aleuster Crowley, Mae West, Lenny Bruce, Karlheinz Stockhausen, WC Fields, Carl Jung, Edgar Allen Poe, Fred Astaire, Richard Merkin, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Simon Rodia, Bob Dylan, Aubrey Beardsley, Sir Robert Peel, Aldous Huxley, Dylan Thomas, Terry Southern, Dion DiMucci, Tony Curtis, Wallace Berman, Tommy Handley. Marilyn Monroe, William Burroughs, Sir Mahavatara Babaji, Stan Laurel, Richard Lindner, Oliver Hardy, Karl Marx, HG Wells, Sri Paramahansa Yogananda, Stuart Sutcliffe, Max Miller, Marlon Brando, Tom Mix, Oscar Wilde, Tyrone Power, Larry Bell, Dr David Livingstone, Johnny Weissmuller, Stephen Crane, Issy Bonn, George Bernard Shaw, HC Westermann, Albert Stubbins, Sri Lahiri Mahasaya, Lewis Carroll, TE Lawrence, Sonny Liston, Shirley Temple, Albert Einstein, Bobby Breen, Marlene Dietrich, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Diana Dors and Lakshmi.
You do a good job sticking to the extrinsic details of the album but there are several details that be mentioned. For example, the title being composed of flowers, the color of the flowers, the blue background, and even the tree on the left side. You could also use those details to transition into the intrinsic qualities of the album. Perhaps why the people are arranged in the way they are in the album. Also why the usage of flowers to compose the title.
A good starting analysis of the extrinsic details of the album cover nonetheless. SGT Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club is a very colorful album cover that is probably a reflection of the glitz and glamour of Rock and Roll during that time period. There is much to unpack from how visually active the album is.