Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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“I'm Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Man / I hope I will enjoy my show...”

~ Apu

Sgt. Pepper's (one and only) Lonely Hearts Club Band is one helluvan album by the Beatles.

[edit] Context

Summer of Love, 1967. Same summer as The Doors' debut album and Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow. The stage was set for an album that, years later, Rolling Stone magazine would call the greatest of all time.

[edit] Highlights

• The title track
• "With a Little Help from My Friends"
• "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
• "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
• "She's Leaving Home"
• "When I'm Sixty-Four"
• "Lovely Rita"
• "A Day in the Life"

[edit] Musical importance

For one thing, it's kind of a concept album. It's psychedelic. It's got Aleister Crowley on the cover. Oh, yeah.