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Studio album by the Beatles
Released 26 May 1967
Recorded 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967
Studio EMI and Regent Sound, London
Genre
Rockpoppsychedeliaart rock
Length 39:36
Label
ParlophoneCapitol
Producer George Martin
The Beatles chronology
A Collection of Beatles Oldies
(1966) Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967) The Beatles
(1968)

The Beatles North American chronology
Revolver
(1966) Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967) Magical Mystery Tour
(1967)
Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967,[nb 1] Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era`s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

At the end of August 1966, the Beatles had permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band, forming the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. For this project, they continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver (1966), this time without an absolute deadline for completion. Sessions began on 24 November at EMI Studios with compositions inspired by the Beatles` youth, but after pressure from EMI, the songs `Strawberry Fields Forever` and `Penny Lane` were released as a double A-side single in February 1967 and left off the LP. The album was then loosely conceptualised as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track.

A landmark work of British psychedelia, Sgt. Pepper is considered one of the first art rock LPs and a progenitor to progressive rock. It incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. With assistance from producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick, many of the recordings were coloured with sound effects and tape manipulation, as exemplified on `Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds`, `Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!` and `A Day in the Life`. Recording was completed on 21 April. The cover, which depicts the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth.

Sgt. Pepper`s release was a defining moment in pop culture, heralding the album era and the 1967 Summer of Love, while its reception achieved full cultural legitimisation for popular music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form. The first Beatles album to be released with the same track listing in both the UK and the US, it spent 27 weeks at number one on the Record Retailer chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one on the Billboard Top LPs chart in the United States. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour; in 2003, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being `culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant`. It has topped several critics` and listeners` polls for the best album of all time, including those published by Rolling Stone magazine and in the book All Time Top 1000 Albums, and the UK`s `Music of the Millennium` poll. More than 32 million copies had been sold worldwide as of 2011. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time and was, as of 2018, the UK`s best-selling studio album. A remixed and expanded edition of the album was released in 2017.

Personnel
According to Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald,[529] except where noted:

The Beatles

John Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm, acoustic and lead guitars; Hammond organ, final piano E chord; harmonica, tape loops, sound effects, comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine, maracas, bass guitar on `Fixing a Hole`[530]
Paul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; bass and lead guitars; piano, grand piano, Lowrey and Hammond organs; handclaps; vocalisations, sound effects, comb and tissue paper
George Harrison – harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; sitar, tambura, swarmandal;[531] harmonica, comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine, maracas; lead vocals on `Within You Without You`
Ringo Starr – drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, handclaps, tubular bells; lead vocals on `With a Little Help from My Friends` and `Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)`;[532] harmonica, comb and tissue paper; final piano E chord
Additional musicians and production

Sounds Inc. – saxophones, trombones and French horn on `Good Morning Good Morning`
Neil Aspinall – tambura, harmonica
Geoff Emerick – audio engineering; tape loops, sound effects[nb 43]
Mal Evans – counting, harmonica, alarm clock, final piano E chord
George Martin – producer, mixer; tape loops, sound effects; harpsichord on `Fixing a Hole`, harmonium, Lowrey organ, glockenspiel and Mellotron[534] on `Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!`, Hammond organ on `With a Little Help from My Friends`, piano on `Getting Better`, piano solo on `Lovely Rita`; final harmonium chord.
Session musicians – four French horns on `Sgt. Pepper`s Lonely Hearts Club Band`: Neill Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall, arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; harp, performed by Sheila Bromberg, and string section on `She`s Leaving Home`, arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin; tabla by Natwar Soni, dilrubas by Anna Joshi and Amrit Gajjar, and tambura by Buddhadev Kansara on `Within You Without You`,[535] with eight violins and four cellos arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin; clarinet trio on `When I`m Sixty-Four`: Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie, Frank Reidy, arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; saxophones on `Good Morning Good Morning`, arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon; and forty-piece orchestra, including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion on `A Day in the Life`, arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney, and conducted by Martin and McCartney.