The whole cover is depicting a funeral for Paul (everyone is looking at a freshly dug grave) attended by the Beatles themselves and a range of other people. Is it more than coincidence that the entire group (except for the Beatles) are either dead, portrayed someone in a film who had died, or has had a near-death experience?

Each of the Beatles are holding musical instruments. All of them are holding nice, shiny brass instruments except for Paul who is holding a black, wooden Cor Anglais. Was this instrument chosen for Paul because the mouth piece was shaped like the blade of a scythe? Not only that, but Paul only has three fingers on the instrument, which indicates that there are only three original members of the group left.

To the left of the Sgt. Pepper Beatles, we see the Beatlemania Beatles. They all look upset, and Paul seems to be comforting a very sad looking Ringo. Are they mourning the death of Paul? They all seem to be staring at the grave, but, just like on the cover of Rubber Soul, John is looking at something else.

Underneath the floral arrangement that spells BEATLES, there is a yellow wreath of flowers. Notice that it's shaped like a left handed bass guitar (Paul’s instrument), and that it only has 3 strings, which indicates that there is only three original members left.

Staying with the yellow wreath of flowers, If you look at it closely, it seems to spell out, 'PAUL?'. This hangs a question mark over his existence. Also, if you turn it 90 degrees anticlockwise, it looks like the letter P. P for Paul.

There is a doll to the right of the cover. If you look closely, you can see that there is a small toy car on her lap. This is a model of the car that Paul was killed in.

Staying on the subject of the doll, there is also a bloody, left handed drivers glove by her side which also indicates Paul's car crash.

Underneath the doll, there is another car which appears to be going over a cliff and has burst into flames. The doll in green that's looking over it is said in some places to be Jane Asher. I don't know why this is though.

The legendary bass drum was designed by the totally fictional person Joe Epigrave. Split up his second name and you get Epitaph, and Grave. What's usually on a grave epitaph? A date should be there. Here's the lowdown. If the bass drum is mirrored then you get, '1 ONE 1 X HE () DIE'. (See picture) If you take the first two numbers, 1 and ONE, you get 11, which can be seen as November, then the 1 and X can be seen in Roman numerals as 9. So this reads 'November 9 HE () DIE'. The () Points to Paul as well!

Again, like the Revolver cover, there is a hand above Paul's head, which becomes a common occurrence on later covers. The person holding the hand above his head was an author who wrote a story about four sailors who get lost at sea. One of the sailors dies, and when the remaining three get back to shore they cover up the death.

There might be a smear campaign going on here. Just behind Paul there is a man staring down at his rear. Back then homosexuality was frowned upon, and the Beatles did this so that fans wouldn't feel as upset as they would be at the news of the death. Linked to this, is the song, 'Yellow Submarine' on the Revolver album. In the instrumental John sing's, 'Paul's a queer, Paul's a queer!'

If you look at the word BEATLES itself, there is an, 'unrelated' O just to the right. If you do include this in BEATLES, and split the word up, you get BE AT LESO. LESO is meant to be the place where Paul is supposedly buried.

Just under the T in BEATLES, there is a model of Sheeva the Destroyer. Not only is she pointing to the Sgt. Pepper Paul, she's also pointing to the Beatlemania Paul. This is showing that Paul has been, 'destroyed'.

George is wearing a three-pointed hat, which indicates that there is only three members left of the Beatles.

This is the first album to only have the word BEATLES on the cover, and not THE BEATLES. This shows that the Beatles are no longer complete.

Paul is looking face on to the camera while the others are turning towards him. This makes him look like the cardboard cutouts behind them. This was done because William Campbell was not yet ready to be facing the camera on this brand new album, so instead of using him for the cover, a cutout of Paul was created and dressed in his particular Sgt Peppers gear.

BACK COVER CLUES:

Can you see how Paul is now considerably taller than the others, when before he was the third tallest?  This could also have the meaning that Paul is ascending upwards into Heaven.

If you read the lyrics from left to right rather than in columns, you get the story of what happened in the crash. It reads, 'Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly (Rita calling Paul) : Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins (Time of accident) : And life flows on within you and without you (Must continue without Paul) : And you're on your own you're in the street (Paul's corpse)'

There's part of a sentence coming out of Paul head. (This symbolizes the head injuries sustained) It reads, 'Without you', which means that the Beatles are continuing without their deceased bass player.

It looks like the song, 'Within You Without You' is a song to Paul from George as it's about someone dying. Is it more than coincidence that Paul is the only one that has every line of this particular song printed on him?

George is pointing to one line in the song, 'She's Leaving Home'. It says, 'Wednesday morning at 5 o'clock as the day begins.' This is Paul's time of death.

The Beatles seem to be spelling the word, 'LOVE' with their hands. George is making the letter L, John is making the letter V, and Ringo is making the letter E. The only letter remaining is O, which can be seen as a hole. So Paul is (in?) a hole.

INNER SLEEVE CLUES:

Paul has a black badge on his left arm which seems to read O.P.D. People have 'decoded' this as Officially Pronounced Dead. The initials however, are O.P.P, which stands for Ontario Provisional Police. This is also seen as a clue because William was a policeman before becoming the new Paul.

 Paul is sitting face on to the camera, while the others are leaning towards him. This makes him stand out and makes him look different to the others.