Birthday makeover for Sgt Pepper cover

The English pop artist, 79, is best known for designing the 1967 Beatles cover, a colourful collage of life-sized cardboard models of famous faces together with the Fab Four.

Each of the band members picked their favourites for the crowd scene, which featured Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Marlon Brando, Karl Marx, Marlene Dietrich, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy among others.

The new artwork features the names who have inspired Sir Peter, who has been dubbed the Godfather of Pop Art, over the decades. British artists, film directors, musicians, writers, film stars, fashion designers and chefs, as well as himself and his family, are represented.

Those whose faces are on the new image include murder mystery writer Agatha Christie, fashion designers Stella McCartney, Vivienne Westwood and the late Alexander McQueen, filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock, singer Amy Winehouse, artists Anish Kapoor, Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and David Hockney, supermodel Kate Moss, TV cooks Fanny Cradock and Delia Smith, Harry Potter author JK Rowling – and Sir Paul McCartney once again.

Sir Peter said: “I’ve chosen people I admire, great people and some who are dear friends.

He made the artwork to go on display during his 80th birthday celebrations at this year’s Vintage Festival, celebrating the best of British culture, held in Northamptonshire from July 13 to 15.