Quotes About Sgt. Pepper's

There's a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and... they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn't come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop... 'Sgt. Pepper's' was the best thing I'd ever heard in my life.

They listened to the Beatles for most of the journey, and Hynes explained to Gackowska why Abbey Road was the band's best record, and how Sgt. Pepper's wasn't really a concept album, no matter what anyone claimed to the contrary. Then he had to explain to Gackowska what a concept album was, and a B side, until pretty soon he felt about a hundred years old and was tempted to check himself into a nursing home.

The so-called Rad Four donned comedic Technicolor dream coats, consumed seven hundred sheets of mediocre acid on the roof of the studio, and proceeded to make Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a ground breaking record no one actually likes.

Nyro's plodding craftsmanship wasn't out of step with that of her most sophisticated male peers, including the Beatles, who were tackling projects that were long both in nature and time of execution. The Beatles set the standard for such experimentation with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band—considered by many to be the first concept album—