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.

“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; ...

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.

On June 1, 1967, John, Paul, George, and Ringo changed the world when they released Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, one of the greatest albums of all time. Now, for its 50th anniversary ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...