By Jeff K
Released on this day in 1967,
Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.
In 2003, the Library of Congress placed
Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant . That year,
Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the
By Jeff K
Released on this day in 1967,
Sgt. Pepper s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by The Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.
In 2003, the Library of Congress placed
Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant . That year,
Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the