The Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' might be the most influential album ever. One song spoke to Amanda Palmer before she even understood anything about the Fab Four. “I loved ‘Lucy in ...
Lennon sings most of the song, but Paul McCartney sings the middle part, which is a hurried account of his morning routine as a teenager in Liverpool ("Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across ...
Sgt. Pepper is often classified as a psychedelic album. That’s accurate, but the track listing varies. It includes baroque pop (“Lovely Rita),” Indian classical music (“Within You Without You”), hard ...
When the Beatles first released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, it seemed like nothing would be able to top its cultural and sonic significance to the modern music ...
"Sgt. Pepper" spent 15 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts. — -- It was 50 years ago today that "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" got its official release in the U.K. The Beatles' ...
The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been ...
By 1967, what the Beatles did spoke as loudly as the music they made. They had long arrived at their goal, dreamed up when ...
the final chord of "A Day In the Life," followed by track 14 in which they're heard recording the final piano chord that was eventually used). But the previously unreleased stuff isn't made up ...
Everyone who was there at the time can remember exactly where they were when they first heard The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For Rick Wakeman, the epiphany came in the living room ...
“Changing the lifestyle and the appearance of youth throughout the world didn’t just happen-we set out to do it; we knew what we were doing.” -John Lennon, (1972) Between November 1966 and March 1967 ...