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It Was Twenty Years Ago Today: 1967 & Sgt. Pepper DVD

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The Landmark 1987 TV Documentary That Commemorates The 20th Anniversary Of The Year Of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Was Released, History’s Greatest Rock Album, And The Historic Year Of Its Release Which The Album Reflected! 2 Full Hours Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD! #SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand #SgtPepper #Beatles #TheBeatles #PaulMcCartney #JohnLennon #GeorgeHarrison #RingoStarr #RockMusic #ClassicRock #ConceptAlbums #Albums #StudioAlbums #SummerOfLove #BabyBoomers #Counterculture #CountercultureOfThe1960s #GrammyAwards #AbbeyRoadStudios #EMIRecordingStudios #GeorgeMartin #GeoffEmerick #RecordingStudioAsMusicalInstrument #MultitrackRecording #Overdubbing #PeterBlake #JannHaworth #ArtRock #PsychedlicRock #ProgressiveRock #ProtoProg #ProtoProgressive #Parlophone #CapitolRecords #AlbumEra #Psychedelia #Vaudeville #CircusMusic #CarnivalMusic #MusicHall #AvantGarde #AvantGardeMusic #ClassicalMusic #BaroquePop #BaroqueRock #IndianClassicalMusic #NationalRecordingRegistry #BestSellingAlbums #DerekTaylor #PeterFonda #PeterCoyote #AllenGinsberg #AbbieHoffman #TimothyLeary #RogerMcGuinn #JosephLockwood #RobertJasperGrootveld #Diggers #TheDiggers #DavidSimpson #PeterBerg #RonThelin #HaightAshbury #PsychedelicShop #ChetHelms #PaulKantner #MichellePhilips #WilfridMellers #PonderosaPine #AllenCohen #EdSanders #SteveAbrams #WilliamReesMogg #TheMamasAndThePapas #PinkFloyd #SmallFaces #TheByrds #TheDoors #BobDylan #JimiHendrix #JeffersonAirplane #OtisRedding #TheWho #JanisJoplin #RaviShankar #AdrianMitchell #GratefulDead #DVD

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A breathtaking overview of 1967, the year that saw the birth of the Counter Culture and changed forever the social and artistic fabric of popular culture, all set to the musical score of that year's historic rock album, the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band! Features unprecedented retrospective interviews with Beatles Paul McCartney and George Harrison, Beatles business manager Derek Taylor, Peter Fonda, Peter Coyote, Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Roger McGuinn, Sgt. Pepper album cover artist Peter Blake, EMI Chairman Sir Joseph Lockwood, Dutch Provo activist Robert Jasper Grootveld, Diggers David Simpson and Peter Berg, Ron Thelin of Haight Ashbury's Psychedelic Shop, underground empressario Chet Helms, Paul Kantner, Michelle Philips, Wilfrid Mellers, Ponderosa Pine, Allen Cohen, Ed Sanders, Steve Abrams, Times editor Sir William Rees-Mogg and more; and in-between all these interviews are excellent performances footage and archival interview outtakes by The Beatles, the Mamas and the Papas, Pink Floyd, The Small Faces, The Byrds, The Doors, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Otis Redding, The Who, Janis Joplin, Ravi Shankar, poet Adrian Mitchell, The Grateful Dead and more! An extraordinary historical document that any fan of the Beatles, as well as any student of the times, will long appreciate.


On May 26, 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in the UK; it was released one week later in the US on June 2, 1967. It is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It spent 27 weeks at number one on the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US. It was lauded by critics for its innovations in production, songwriting and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour. In August 1966, the Beatles permanently retired from touring and began a three-month holiday. During a return flight to London in November, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that formed the impetus of the Sgt. Pepper concept. Sessions began on 24 November in Abbey Road Studio Two with two compositions inspired by the Beatles' youth, "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane", but after pressure from EMI, the songs were released as a double A-side single and not included on the album. In February 1967, after recording the title track "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", McCartney suggested that the Beatles should release an entire album representing a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. This alter ego group would give them the freedom to experiment musically. During the recording sessions, the band furthered the technological progression they had made with their 1966 album Revolver. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, they adopted an experimental approach to composition and recording on songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick helped realise the group's ideas by approaching the studio as an instrument, applying orchestral overdubs, sound effects and other methods of tape manipulation. Recording was completed on 21 April 1967. The cover, depicting the Beatles posing in front of a tableau of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the British pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the use of extended form in popular music while continuing the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases. It is described as one of the first art rock LPs, aiding the development of progressive rock, and is credited with marking the beginning of the album era. An important work of British psychedelia, the album incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. In 2003, the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". That year, Rolling Stone ranked it number one in its list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time". As of 2011, it has sold more than 32 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best-selling albums. Professor Kevin J. Dettmar, writing in the Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded"

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