lucy in the sky sergeant peppers became the thing. you drop the needle on it and you would hear a crackle and be taken away on this journey. sergeant pepper was our opera. it sounded unlike anything we were used to. the 60s, lyrics are generally infantile and it s noise, not music. but the sergeant pepper album was brilliant, signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained. it really caught the moment. this music is crucial to today s art, and it s crucial that it should remain art, and it s crucial that it should