Amanda Palmer is a big fan of classic rock. She said one album from the 1990s was The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for her generation. On one level, she’s totally right — and on ...
"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' ...
The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heads Club Band has one of the most iconic covers in the history of music. The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer felt the hypnotic power of the cover. She revealed what ...
Everyone who was there at the time can remember exactly where they were when they first heard The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For Rick Wakeman, the epiphany came in the living room ...
When the Beatles first released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the spring of 1967, it seemed like nothing would be able to top its cultural and sonic significance to the modern music ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 album was signed by the Fab Four in 1967, and shattered the previous selling price for such an item. By Aaron Couch Even Lucy and her diamonds can’t compete with these riches. A rare, signed copy ...