With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation. 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.
From beginning to reprise to encore, Sgt. Pepper’s shows off a personality that no one can imitate or replicate. It defines the Beatles in their artistic character.
Sgt. Pepper’s is an album that I must listen to all the way through each time I hear it, to remember each instance in which I experienced it, but also to marvel at the brilliance of its creators.
Sgt. Pepper is filled with sly inside jokes, broad music-hall humor and completely gratuitous novelties. It is not only the Beatles' most artistically ambitious album but their funniest.
The History of The Albums – n° 341
June 1967, dear journal,
If the main concept of History of The Albums is to be believed, Sgt Pepper's would make a great final chapter for this series, not because it is the best album of all time (because it isn't), but because it is the definition of the term "studio album format" par excellence. The glory of Sgt Pepper's is explained beyond its extraordinary musical content by the symbols it gives off. For this reason, it enjoys an ... read more
CLASSIC SATURDAYS #3
I feel like a lot of people underestimate how truly absurd Beatlemania was.
I wholeheartedly believe that there has yet to be a cultural phenomenon bigger than The Beatles at their peak. I mean, these four lot had 73.4 million consecutive live viewers watching the Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964. Excluding sports events, that makes it the fifteenth most-watched live television broadcast in history, squished right between the Grand Opening of Disneyland in 1955 and the first ... read more
'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' has always been my favourite album from The Beatles. There are very few albums that I would say sound "magical" but there is definitely something among these 13 tracks that has pulled me back more often than any other album of theirs. And it's something I've always struggled to quite put my finger on. Maybe it's the uneasy psychedelic aspects of tracks like 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' or 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!' that mesmerize me ... read more
So, this was my first Beatles album and I’m pleasantly surprised. A bit trippy, a bit quirky and a bit of that “classic old”. Will def come back to this in the future.
Eu não dava nada pra esse álbum e sim eu sei que ele é muito impactante pra cultura e etc. Mas às vezes álbuns antigos não rolam comigo e esse foi amor a primeira vista. Eu nunca tinha ouvido um álbum dos The Beatles completo e eu fiquei MUITO chocado com tudo o que aconteceu enquanto eu ouvia.
A produção é simplesmente sensacional, a dupla Lennon-McCartney compõe pra caralho e eu tive que ouvir o álbum ... read more
1 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 2:01 | 93 |
2 | With a Little Help From My Friends 2:44 | 93 |
3 | Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds 3:28 | 94 |
4 | Getting Better 2:48 | 89 |
5 | Fixing a Hole 2:36 | 88 |
6 | She's Leaving Home 3:35 | 91 |
7 | Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! 2:37 | 88 |
8 | Within You Without You 5:04 | 86 |
9 | When I'm Sixty-Four 2:37 | 88 |
10 | Lovely Rita 2:42 | 87 |
11 | Good Morning Good Morning 2:41 | 81 |
12 | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) 1:19 | 89 |
13 | A Day In the Life 5:35 | 98 |