Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom. It is considered one of the first art rock LPs, a progenitor to progressive rock, and the start of the album era. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year.
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Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom. It is considered one of the first art rock LPs, a progenitor to progressive rock, and the start of the album era. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour. In 2003 it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. It has topped several critics’ and listeners’ polls for the best album of all time, including those published by Rolling Stone magazine and in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums. It remains the UK’s best-selling studio album, with more than 32 million copies sold worldwide as of 2011. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. The band continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver, this time without an absolute deadline for completion. With producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, the group coloured much of the recordings with sound effects and tape manipulation, as exemplified on Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life. The cover, which depicts the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth.
The group were angry with their manager, Brian Epstein, for insisting on what they regarded as an exhausting and demoralising itinerary. A public apology in August 1965 marked the end of the group’s record sales, but a US tour in August that year was reduced by reduced ticket sales, then reduced by subpar ticket sales in the US. The Beatles then performed in the Philippines, where they were threatened and manhandled for not visiting the First Lady Imelda Marcos. John Lennon’s remarks about the Beatles being more popular than Jesus were published in the Bible Belt, then embroiled in protest and controversy in America’s Bible Belt. In June 1966, two days after finishing the album Revolver,. the group set off for a tour that started in West Germany. While in Hamburg they received an anonymous telegram stating: \”Do not go to Tokyo. Your life is in danger. They’re just bloody tribal rites. . Beatles concerts are nothing to do with music anymore. They’re just Bloody tribal rites . – Paul McCartney’s opinion, they could. send out four waxworks … and that would satisfy the crowds.’’ In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. In November 1966, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that formed the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. The idea that was conceived after recording the title track.
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