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Oasis team up with Beatles artist for Best Of sleeve...

We all know Oasis are massive Beatles fans, so how did they mark their Best Of? By getting Sir Peter Blake, the man responsible for the 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' sleeve, to design the 'Stop The Clocks' cover.

NME: What was the concept behind the Oasis cover?

Sir Peter Blake: "There are many levels of meaning to the pictures, but also I think in a way the point is that none of it means anything. I was choosing all the objects at random. I suppose in the back of my mind, was the cover of 'Sgt Pepper's.....'

After that came out there were so many theories about what the cover meant - that the flower bed was marijuana and that it signified Paul was dead. I suppose I was picking the objects subconsciously, so that I was leaving it for the fans' interpretation.

The 'Definitely Maybe' cover was in the back of my mind too. What intrigued me about it was that although some of those objects meant something to the band, you couldn't possibly know what some of the others meant! It's using the mystery of 'Definitely Maybe' and running with it."

You must have known Oasis were big Beatles fans?

"I did and I'm sure that's one of the main reasons they asked me to do it. it wasn't the original cover, though. We did a different design first. We used a image of the outside of Granny Takes A Trip on the King's Road as a canvas, but then I discovered the shop was bringing out an album, so we had to abandon that. What happened with the cover was that Noel came into the studio, looked at my work and said what he liked."

Tell us a bit about the objects in the locker?

"Dorothy (from the Wizard of Oz) is there as my icon, rather then theirs. We had an image of Marilyn Monroe that we wanted to use, but there was ongoing litigation with the use of that image, so we ended up using Michael Caine. I put the seven dwarves in there because they're objects that I put in quite often. I've done a whole series of things that feature Snow White And The Seven Dwarves in various predicaments. It was no more then that."

Source: NME Magazine

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