Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.-Wikipedia
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New York Times
1967-Like an over-attended child “Sergeant Pepper” is spoiled.
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New York Times
2017-The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ at 50: Still Full of Joy and Whimsy
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Pitchfork
Though it has perhaps slipped in estimation since its initial issue, the 1967 release that defined the LP format still packs surprises.
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Rolling Stone
1987-I just listened to it and said to myself, “God, I really love this album.” Still, today, it just sounds so fresh.
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BBC
2007-It took 129 days between Autumn 1966 and Spring 1967 and yes, it changed the world.
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Gramophone
1967-Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is, like nearly everything the Beatles do, bizarre, wonderful, perverse, beautiful, exciting, provocative, exasperating, compassionate and mocking.
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Ultimate Classic Rock
2017-50 years after its release, the album remains a landmark recording and document of the era. It's a timeless cultural marker that hasn't lost much of its ability to dazzle after all these years. And from the sound of things, Sgt. Pepper will never go out of style.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
1967-While other groups are still thumping out the rhythm on drums and guitars, the Beatles are using every device from 42 piece string orchestra to comb and paper to create sounds which are in every way different.
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Newsweek
1967-Sgt. Pepper is a rollicking, probing language-and-sound vaudeville, which grafts skin from all three brows—high, middle and low—into a pulsating collage about mid-century manners and madness.
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Variety
2017-Think about it: At 50, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is on equal plane with Dixieland jazz.
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The Guardian
2017-The Beatles: Sgt Pepper 50th Anniversary Edition review – peace, love and rock star ennui.
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The Observer
1967-The effect of the LP is also of collage, not only of cocks crowing hysterical applause, a fox hunt etc. but of musical styles, too: string quartets, military bands, George Formby songs, Indian Sitar, primitive rock. Yet, as in any good collage, the elements have fused to become a personal statement.
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The Guardian
1967-Each one of these numbers, presented ambitiously as a continuous cycle with line-by-line text on the sleeve, has a good nugget of an idea, whether it is the night out with Rita the parking-meter maid or the crypto-Lear of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds which provides charming contrasts of triple and duple time.
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Pretty Much Amazing
In the geography of pop music, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is repeatedly deemed a gigantic meteor-strike.
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Spill Magazine
2017-Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band may not be the best album ever made, may not even be the best Beatle album ever made (my nod goes to Revolver, but I am open to debate), but Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club is the most important album ever made.
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The Morton Report
Certainly, though, Sgt. Pepper belongs on any list of the most important and beloved rock albums ever made.
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Paste
2017-The simple truth is that you’re going to be satisfied
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ALLMUSIC
Sgt. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as the Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song.
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The Quietus
2017-Sgt. Pepper was an album for all of life: not just the lysergic all-nighters, but the bright blue mornings which followed them.
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The Telegraph
2009-It is impossible to overstate its impact: from a contemporary Sixties perspective it was utterly mind-blowing and origin
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Bowers & Wilkins
2017-The most celebrated album by the most popular band (ever?) has been given a major makeover by original producer George Martin’s son Giles Martin.
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Consequence of Sound
2009-On the edge of psychedelia, on the forefront of sonic experimentation, and on the meticulous shoulders of producer George Martin, The Beatles rushed back onto the scene with their often misunderstood album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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Independent
2017-there are so many innovative sounds fighting for attention on Sgt Pepper, from strings and sitars to harmonium and harpsichord
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The Times
2017-How could Giles Martin, given the job through the sheer luck of being George Martin’s son, possibly improve on one of the greatest pop albums? Seasoned Pepperites, fear not.
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San Francisco Chronicle
2017-The Beatles Rock
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