“sergeant pepper’s lonely hearts club band”*the album*

(released on ‘1 june 1967’, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the ‘united kingdom’ and 15 weeks at #1 in the ‘united states’)

(“time” magazine declared it “a historic departure in the progress of music” and the new statesman praised its ‘elevation’ of ‘pop’ to the level of ‘fine art’)

(it won 4 ‘grammy awards’ in ‘1968’, including ‘album of the year’, the first ‘rock LP’ to receive this honor)

(in ‘august 1966’, the beatles permanently retired from ‘touring’ and began a 3-month holiday from ‘recording’)

(during a return flight to ‘london’ in ‘november’, ‘paul mccartney’ had an idea for a song involving an ‘edwardian era’ military band that would eventually form the impetus of the sergeant pepper concept)

(sessions for what was to become the beatles’ 8th studio album began on ‘november 24’ in ‘abbey road studio 2’ with 2 compositions inspired from their youth, “strawberry fields forever” and “penny lane”, but after pressure from ‘EMI’, the songs were released as a ‘double A-side single’ and were not included on the ‘album’)

(in ‘february 1967’, after recording the “sergeant pepper’s lonely hearts club band” song, ‘mccartney’ suggested that the beatles should release an entire album that would represent a performance by the fictional “sergeant pepper band”)

(this ‘alter ego group’ would give them the freedom to experiment musically)

(during the ‘recording sessions’, the band endeavored to improve upon the ‘production quality’ of their prior releases)

(knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition, writing songs such as “with a little help from my friends”, “lucy in the sky with diamonds” and “a day in the life”)

(producer ‘george martin’ and engineer geoff emerick’s innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of sound shaping signal processing and the use of a ’40-piece orchestra’ performing ‘aleatoric crescendos’)

(recording was completed on ’21 april 1967′)

(the cover, depicting the band posing in front of a ‘tableau’ of ‘celebrities’ and ‘historical figures’, was designed by the british pop artists ‘peter blake’ and ‘jann haworth’)

(“sergeant pepper” is regarded by ‘musicologists’ as an early ‘concept album’ that advanced the use of ‘extended form’ in ‘popular music’ while continuing the ‘artistic maturation’ seen on the beatles’ preceding releases)

(it has been described as one of the first ‘art rock’ LPs, aiding the development of ‘progressive rock’, and credited with marking the beginning of the ‘album era’)

(an important work of ‘british psychedelia’, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including ‘vaudeville’, ‘circus’, ‘music hall’, ‘avant-garde’, and ‘western and iIndian’ classical music)

(in ‘2003’, the ‘library of congress’ placed sergeant pepper in the ‘national recording registry’, honoring the work as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”)

(that same year, rolling stone magazine ranked it #1 in its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”)

(as of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums in history)

(“professor kevin j. dettmar”, writing in the oxford encyclopedia of british literature, described it as “the most important and influential ‘rock and roll’ album ever recorded”)

“never could be any other…”

“we’ll fuck you like supermen!”
“good ‘umph’ makes good babies”

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