That last one might be overkill. Unless you’re Jimi HenÂdrix. HenÂdrix was so excitÂed after the UK release of Sgt. Pepper’s LoneÂly Hearts Club Band in 1967 that he opened a set at London’s SavÂille TheÂater with his own, HenÂdrix-ified renÂdiÂtion of the album’s McCartÂney-penned title song. In the audiÂence: McCartÂney
We'd love to take you home. I don't really want to stop the show. But I thought you might like to know. That the singer's going to sing a song. And he wants you all to sing along. So let me introduce to you. The one and only Billy Shears. And Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, yeah. Submit Corrections.The day after it was released in the United Kingdom, The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was issued in the United States of America. Sgt Pepper was issued as Capitol MAS 6253 (mono) and SMAS 2653 (stereo). It topped the Billboard chart for 15 weeks, and in 1968 won four Grammy Awards: Album of the Year; Best Album CoverWith Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation.Sgt. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as the Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song. The Beatles inhabit two worlds on Sgt. Pepper, namely the world of the Edwardian music-hall in which the Club Band performs and the mostly implied outside world. The latter is represented through the vignettes of British life in the song's lyrics, the anguish behind Billy Shears' vocal performance--in other words, the humanity behind the music. OXRB.