Sgt.
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an album released by the Beatles. It was the eighth Beatles album released in the United Kingdom. It was released on 1 June 1967. It was at the top of music charts in the UK for twenty-seven weeks. It has many well-known songs, such as "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "A Day in the Life", which John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked on together. For a while before this album came out, The Beatles had been trying new things when they made records, but this album made a much bigger change in the way they sounded.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1 June 1967 | |||
Recorded | 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967 at Abbey Road Studios, London, England | |||
Genre | Rock • pop • psychedelic rock • art rock | |||
Length | 39:42 | |||
Language | English | |||
Label | Parlophone/Capitol | |||
Producer | George Martin | |||
The Beatles chronology | ||||
| ||||
Singles from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||||
|
The album title was used later for a 1978 Universal Pictures movie. Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees played Sgt. Pepper's band, while Billy Preston was the Sergeant. George Burns played Mr. Kite (the mayor), Steve Martin (in his first film) played Maxwell Edison, and Aerosmith was the Future Villain Band. It consistently holds the top spot on critics' lists of the greatest albums of all time.
All songs written and composed by Lennon-McCartney except where noted.
Side one | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Title | Length | |||||||
1. | "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" | 2:00 | |||||||
2. | "With a Little Help from My Friends" | 2:43 | |||||||
3. | "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" | 3:26 | |||||||
4. | "Getting Better" | 2:47 | |||||||
5. | "Fixing a Hole" | 2:35 | |||||||
6. | "She's Leaving Home" | 3:33 | |||||||
7. | "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" | 2:35 |
Side two | |||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. | Title | Length | |||||||
1. | "Within You Without You" (George Harrison) | 5:05 | |||||||
2. | "When I'm Sixty-Four" | 2:37 | |||||||
3. | "Lovely Rita" | 2:41 | |||||||
4. | "Good Morning Good Morning" | 2:42 | |||||||
5. | "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" | 1:19 | |||||||
6. | "A Day in the Life" | 5:04 |
This article uses material from the Wikipedia Simple English article Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license ("CC BY-SA 3.0"); additional terms may apply (view authors). Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
®Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wiki Foundation, Inc. Wiki Simple English (DUHOCTRUNGQUOC.VN) is an independent company and has no affiliation with Wiki Foundation.