2025 ‘Sgt. Peppers’ Cover Tribute to Lost Celebs Includes Ozzy Osbourne, Sly Stone, Brian Wilson, Rob Reiner, Ace Frehley, D’Angelo & More
British artist Chris Barker's annual homage to stars we've lost is calling it a day with its 10th and final poster.
12/29/2025
British artist Chris Barker's annual homage to stars we've lost is calling it a day with its 10th and final poster.
Ozzy Osbourne visits the SiriusXM Studios on Dec. 11, 2014 in New York City. Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images
After 10 years and more than 1,000 tributes paid, British artist Chris Barker is shutting the lid on his ambitious Sgt. Pepper‘s project. Every December since 2016, Barker has spent the back end of the year scrambling to pull together his homage to famous, infamous and beloved figures we lost that year, all assembled in a giant, overstuffed montage honoring the Beatles iconic cover for their groundbreaking 1967 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
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This year’s effort was one of the most crowded ever, with 245 names on the list, from the expected — Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Reiner, Gene Hackman, Beach Boys mastermind Brian Wilson, wrestler Hulk Hogan and funk innovator Sly Stone — to some quintessentially quirky picks that will resonate with British fans, but might not translate on this side of the pond (Clodagh Rodgers, 1971 Irish Eurovision “Jack in the Box” singer).
Click here to see this year’s image and key (updated with image of actress Brigitte Bardot).
“It was the night of the U.S. election. I was staying up late in the U.K. to watch America elect their first ever female president… or so I thought,” Barker says about the origins of his passion project in a statement to Billboard. “But then things took an unexpected turn. The commentators started to say things like ‘Florida is too close to call’ and I began thinking what a strange year it had been. I wanted to get my feelings about the year down on paper and for some reason it came out as a parody of the famous Beatles album cover. I posted it online and went to bed. When I woke up – on what coincidentally was my birthday – everything had changed. Trump was president, the world was in shock, I had a viral hit on my hands and the was comparing me to Andy Warhol. Suffice to say it was big.”
