With characteristic swagger, the Beatles warned us ahead of time it was going to be the greatest album ever made. We believed them, and they didn’t disappoint.
Fifty years ago today, on May 26, 1967, we began to listen to it; half an hour later, we began the endless debate over whether it had surpassed the Fab Four’s previous greatest album ever made, Revolver.
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It isn’t that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has aged well; it’s that it hasn’t aged at all. It’s a fixed point in time, a constant in musical history. So since there’s no argument about its greatness, and the Revolver vSgt Pepper debate will never be settled, what is left to determine? Read more…
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