Goldstein had been thrilled when Sy Peck, a veteran Times editor who wore a tie, handed him the band’s new record, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Growing up in the gritty Bronx ...

LONDON — It was 20 50 years ago today on June 1. A half-century later, Sgt. Pepper's, which ushered in the rock 'n' roll "concept album" — a collection of songs written around a central ...

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is often called the single greatest album of all time. From the start, it was a revolutionary and influential work, almost changing the pop ...

These 39 minutes of music have reverberated for 20 years. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released by the Beatles in Britain on June 1, 1967 and arrived in U.S. record stores the ...

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 ...

“Our goal for mixing Sgt. Pepper in surround was to be as immersive as possible.” Believe it or not, the most important date in popular music history is Sunday, June 1, 1947. That’s the ...

So, escaping to the studio, The Beatles created Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1966 and 1967. Sgt. Pepper is psychedelic and bizarre. But this theme is evident upfront. Right on the ...

The remarkable thing about Sgt. Pepper is that it received both popular and critical acclaim instantly. So great today is the pressure to appreciate that critics rushed to hail the album as ...

To understand why the critical world holds Sgt Pepper in such tremendous esteem, it’s necessary to go back to the time when it was created. The sessions for this album began in November 1966 ...

I do not know how far into the future were the Beatles thinking when they put together the cover of the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album. But just as those four boys were able to ...

In 2017, when The Beatles’ eighth album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band reached its 50th anniversary, prog icons including Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman and Steve Hackett told Prog about the ...