Released just eight months after their debut, With the Beatles sounds like a band sprinting to keep up with its own momentum.

Maybe the most recognizable Beatles album cover outside of Abbey Road is Sgt. Pepper’s. The artwork features the Fab Four in bright, eye-catching outfits, surrounded by images of other celebrities.

The seminal album cover, a simple but bold image of a banana, was designed by pop artist Andy Warhol, who is known as one of contemporary art's most important figures.

The Beatles went to Stockholm, Sweden in 1964, where they may have received the inspiration for the 'Sgt. Pepper' cover art.

Iconic artist Ed Ruscha, who hails from Oklahoma City, created the cover art for The Beatles’ final single, “Now and Then.” Ruscha quickly became an innovator in L.A.'s 1960s art scene.

Given that the album was recorded in that sanctified studio, the album cover had to follow suit. Though not a direct copy of the original Abbey Road cover, it certainly captures the same spirit. 2.

When the Beatles released "Yesterday and Today" in 1966, with its cover of the boys holding mutilated baby dolls, San Francisco teenager Eric Christensen grabbed a poster of it before the album ...

Context. Though the image is authentic and was initially featured as the cover for the 1966 Beatles album "Yesterday and Today," it was promptly pulled from shelves over criticism that it was ...

The work adorned the cover of “Revolver,” the Beatles’ seminal follow-up to “Rubber Soul.” While that album had marked a turn toward more sophisticated lyrics, “Revolver” shattered ...

Klaus Voormann, a friend of the Beatles' since the group's days playing in Hamburg, Germany, during the early 60s, won a Grammy Award for designing the cover of the 1966 release "Revolver." Newly ...

British-American pop artist Jann Haworth — best known for co-creating The Beatles’ "Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" album cover — gave a guest lecture at the BYU Museum of Art on ...

By 1968, The Beatles were falling apart – but that didn’t stop them recording their greatest artistic statement, The White Album ...