Deciding who would appear on the cover of the Beatles' 1967 album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," which featured images and wax figures of more than 50 famous people, from W. C. Fields to Karl Marx, was a weeks-long process, according to Gary McGee's 2003 book "Band on the Run: A History of Paul McCartney and Wings." For "Band on the Run" Paul McCartney didn't have any detailed plans.
The Wings' cover features the three members of the band at the time — Paul McCartney, his wife Linda McCartney, and guitarist Denny Laine — and several other people pretending to be escaped convicts caught in the act by a bright spotlight. They held the photoshoot on Oct. 23, 1973, at Osterley Park, an 18th-century country estate in Isleworth, London, England, per The Paul McCartney Project. Not that you'd know, since the cover only shows a bit of the mansion's brickwork. McCartney invited the six other people to appear on the album cover "just for a lark," he told McGee for his 2003 book.
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