Then, Sgt. Pepper came along. The title track, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” helped transform a simple, militaristic concept into one of the band’s more ...

On this day in history, June 1, 1967, the Beatles released "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," their eighth album — which became the soundtrack to the "Summer of Love," according to the official ...

John Lennon said Paul McCartney wrote The Beatles‘ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Subsequently, he explained how American bands may have inspired the song. Interestingly, audiences in the ...

Sgt. Pepper is often cited as a psychedelic album, but it has some great pop songs on it. The best of these songs is “With a Little Help From My Friends.” Love is a constant topic in pop music, but ...

As much as we'd love to say "it was 50 years ago today" that Sgt. Pepper caused a musical revolution, the half-century anniversary of the Beatles' beloved, revered and eternally-played "Sgt. Pepper's ...

The Beatles landmark Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was one of most impactful, experimental and beloved albums of all time, and a paradigm-shifter in terms of what albums could do. Most albums ...

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 ...

Think about it: At 50, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is on equal plane with Dixieland jazz. After all, for those who purchased the Beatles’ 1967 opus, 1917 felt just as remote. All the more ...

Sheila Bromberg was a busy harpist in British symphony orchestras when an agent called on March 17, 1967, to offer her a three-hour stint that night as a session musician at the EMI recording studio ...

A half-century later, Sgt. Pepper's, which ushered in the rock 'n' roll "concept album" — a collection of songs written around a central theme — and inspired musicians from Pink Floyd to Radiohead to ...