This episode takes a deep dive into Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, examining its sound, themes, and lasting influence ...
"Sgt. Pepper" spent 15 consecutive weeks at the top of the charts. — -- It was 50 years ago today that "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" got its official release in the U.K. The Beatles' ...
Melanie Coe, the teenage runaway who inspired the Beatles' "She's Leaving Home," looks back on her surreal moment as a 'Sgt. Pepper' muse. “A-Level Girl Dumps Car And Vanishes,” screamed a headline in ...
Lennon sings most of the song, but Paul McCartney sings the middle part, which is a hurried account of his morning routine as a teenager in Liverpool ("Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb across ...
By 1967, what the Beatles did spoke as loudly as the music they made. They had long arrived at their goal, dreamed up when ...
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is better than a merely great rock album — it’s a glorious exemplar of goofy fluffery. The rockist position carries a kernel of truth insofar as Pepper does ...
The Beatles' most famous album — perhaps the most famous album ever made — was released on 26 May, 1967. And 58 years later, Kiss star Gene Simmons says he is still amazed by what the Fab Four created ...
On paper, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the jukebox musical, was a clever blend of Beatles nostalgia, chart-topping stars from the late 1970s, and psychedelic whimsy. The film starred Peter ...
The Beatles have 20 No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100. That is more than enough. However, The Beatles had a surplus of album tracks that seemingly also could have peaked at No. 1 if they had been ...