The Hulton Archive - The Beatles "Sergeant Pepper Lonely Hearts Club Band" LE 24x29 Custom Framed Giclee on Paper Display (PA LOA & PCV COA)

The Beatles at the press launch for their new album 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', held at Brian Epstein's house at 24 Chapel Street, London, 19th May 1967. Left to right: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon (1940 - 1980) and George Harrison (1943 -2001). (Photo by John Downing/Getty Images).

This Limited Edition Fine Art Giclee is printed on acid-free museum quality paper with a hand-torn deckled edge. It is hand-titled, hand-numbered and features an embossed seal of authenticity from the Hulton|Archive Collection. Edition size is limited to 375 pieces.

Frame measures approximately 24" x 29" in size. ©Hulton|Archive of London

May 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. On release, the album was lauded by the vast majority of critics for its innovations in music production, songwriting, and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and legitimate art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.

John Downing, Photographer 1977-1989 British Press Photographer of the Year.1994 International Photographer of the Year,1978 Photokina Gold Medal, 1990 United Nations Gold Medal,1971 Press Picture of the Year (U.K.) 2001 Lifetime Achievement Award, Picture Editors Guild, Founder of the Press Photographers Association (now The British Press Photographers’ Association.)

The Beatles, “Known as the Fab Four ”John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. They became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential act of the rock era. The Beatles are the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. Yellow Submarine is a 1968 British animated musical fantasy-comedy film inspired by the music of the Beatles.

About Hulton|Archive of London

The Hulton|Archive was formed after two of the leading historical stock houses – The Hulton in London and Archive Photos in New York. The Hulton|Archive is one of the largest collections of photography and illustrative material in the world containing over 40 million images.

The archival collection contains historically and socially significant imagery that documents the human experience through the 19th and 20th centuries up to the present day. The collection features images of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Wizard of Oz and others.

The lot / autograph(s) includes an official Pop Culture Vault COA for authenticity purposes.

Authentication: Pop Culture Vault COA

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