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To paraphrase – and update – the opening line of perhaps the most influential album in rock history, it was 45 years ago Friday Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

It sounds like ancient history. But 45 years after the release of the Beatles' game-changing "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band," the album – and the act we've known for all these years – still matter, albeit in different ways to different folks.

For many Baby Boomers, the anniversary is sure to raise vibrant memories, fond and otherwise, of the Summer of Love – a major point in the cultural upheaval that pit a youth-fueled demand for change against old-school values amid a backdrop of war, drugs and music. For fans too young to recall the album’s debut, "Pepper" transcends any one given moment in time. Either way, the Beatle masterpiece's impact stretches far beyond its birth in Abbey Road Studio 2.

The first major concept album paved the way for works from The Who's "Tommy" to Green Day's "American Idiot" to Jay-Z's "American Gangster." The conceit of an established act playing under the guise of characters can be seen in Slim Shady, the alter ego of Eminem, the only artist to outsell the Beatles in the first decade of this century. The fashion daring embodied in the Beatles' image-changing "Pepper" outfits directly inspired Michael Jackson's faux military look and presaged the audaciousness of Gaga's meat dress. The 78-rpm evolution of a band that went from "I Want to Hold Your Hand" to "Within Without You" in barely three years no doubt encouraged the morphing of Madonna, the modern queen of reinvention.

The album’s cover, packed with cutouts of figures ranging from Marx to Gandhi to Dylan, helped turn LPs into Pop Art canvases. And the four-plus month recording of “Pepper” by a group that made its first album in a day set a new standard for perfectionism in the churn-‘em-out pop world – an ethos that carried beyond music. In Walter Isaacson’s great biography of Steve Jobs, who named

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era’s youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

At the end of August 1966, the Beatles had permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. 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. For this project, they continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver, this time without an absolute deadline for completion. Sessions began on 24 November at EMI Studios with compositions inspired by the Beatles’ youth, but after pressure from EMI, the songs “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” were released as a double A-side single in February 1967 and left off the LP. The album was then loosely conceptualised as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track.

A key work of British psychedelia, Sgt. Pepper is considered one of the first art rock LPs and a progenitor to progressive rock. It incorporates a range of stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. With ass

1967 studio album by the Beatles

This article is about the 1967 album. For other uses, see Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (disambiguation).

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967,Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

At the end of August 1966, the Beatles had permanently retired from touring and pursued individual interests for the next three months. 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. For this project, they continued the technological experimentation marked by their previous album, Revolver (1966), this time without an absolute deadline for completion. Sessions began on 24 November at EMI Studios with compositions inspired by the Beatles' youth, but after pressure from EMI, the songs "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were released as a double A-side single in February 1967 and left off the LP. The album was then loosely conceptualised as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band, an idea that was conceived after recording the title track.

A landmark work of British psychedelia, Sgt. Pepper is consid