Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Studio album by The Beatles
Released	1 June 1967
Recorded	6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England
Genre	Rock • pop • psychedelic rock • art rock
Length	39:42
Language	English
Label	Parlophone/Capitol
Producer	George Martin
The Beatles chronology
Singles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band/With a Little Help from My Friends"/"A Day in the Life"; Released: 14 August 1978;

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an album released by the Beatles. It was the eighth Beatles album released in the United Kingdom. It was released on 1 June 1967. It was at the top of music charts in the UK for twenty-seven weeks. It has many well-known songs, such as "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "A Day in the Life", which John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked on together. For a while before this album came out, The Beatles had been trying new things when they made records, but this album made a much bigger change in the way they sounded.^[1]

The album title was used later for a 1978 Universal Pictures movie. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees played Sgt. Pepper's band, while Billy Preston was the Sergeant. George Burns played Mr. Kite (the mayor), Steve Martin (in his first film) played Maxwell Edison, and Aerosmith was the Future Villain Band. It consistently holds the top spot on critics' lists of the greatest albums of all time.

Songs on the album

All songs written and composed by Lennon-McCartney except where noted.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"	2:00
2.	"With a Little Help from My Friends"	2:43
3.	"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"	3:26
4.	"Getting Better"	2:47
5.	"Fixing a Hole"	2:35
6.	"She's Leaving Home"	3:33
7.	"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"	2:35

Side two
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Within You Without You" (George Harrison)	5:05
2.	"When I'm Sixty-Four"	2:37
3.	"Lovely Rita"	2:41
4.	"Good Morning Good Morning"	2:42
5.	"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)"	1:19
6.	"A Day in the Life"	5:04

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Media

The group, with disc jockey Jim Stagg, while on their final tour in August 1966
Abbey Road Studio Two, where nearly every track on Sgt. Pepper was recorded^[2]
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Studios) in 2005
One of EMI's Studer J37 four-track tape recorders, the machines used to record Sgt. Pepper
A hippie "flower power" bus (pictured in 2004). Sgt. Pepper conveyed the flower power ideology of 1967.^[3]
The album resonated with Vietnam War protestors at the 1967 "March on the Pentagon".
John Lennon's outfit in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Sources

↑ Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 45 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 1]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu.
↑ Emerick & Massey 2006, pp. 184, 190.
↑ Courrier 2009, p. 180.

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[1] Gilliland, John (1969). "Show 45 - Sergeant Pepper at the Summit: The very best of a very good year. [Part 1]" (audio). Pop Chronicles. Digital.library.unt.edu.

[FOOTNOTEEmerickMassey2006184.2C_190-2] Emerick & Massey 2006, pp. 184, 190.

[FOOTNOTECourrier2009180-3] Courrier 2009, p. 180.

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