The genius of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” of course, is that it thrives apart from any concept, and its songs succeed on their own individual merits.

Anyway: Sgt. Pepper's, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this week, is also commonly credited with a more controversial milestone: namely, that it was the world's first concept album.

But Sgt. Pepper‘s moment couldn’t carry on, nor could it keep and hold the Beatles. It only intensified the necessity for Lennon to break free.

The Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' was a landmark of sound engineering as well as a musical masterpiece and Geoff Emerick was the sound engineer who made it happen, Here are some ...

“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is the Beatles’ worst album. But let me save you the outrage you may think I’m looking to foment. I’m not saying it’s a bad record; ...

After its release, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” spent 15 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s U.S. album sales chart, the longest reign in the top spot of any of the group’s albums.

The new "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition" will be released on LP, CD, DVD and high-resolution audio Blu-ray (including full surround Dolby Atmos) on May 26, 2017.

Rick Wakeman, Roger Waters and Robert Fripp were among those listening when the BBC played the record in full in 1967 – and weren’t the only ones who experienced artistic epiphanies that night ...

50 ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Facts’ to Celebrate the Beatles’ Landmark Album. It was 50 years ago today that the Beatles unleashed “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” on an unsuspecting ...

Sgt Pepper was simultaneously the bridge between these two worlds and their soundtrack. “You have to remember that this was more than just music,” says Hackett. “We got stoned to it, made ...