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 ...

A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the new Beatles album. Richard Goldstein, reviewing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in last Sunday’s Times, calls it “an album of special effects, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone who was there at the time can remember exactly where they were when they first heard The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely ...

It's hard to imagine anybody telling The Beatles that their next album wasn't going to be their biggest, but some had doubts ...

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band won in the Album of the Year and Best Contemporary Album categories, and also nabbed trophies in the Best Engineered Recording – Non-Classical and Best Album ...

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 ...