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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles, holding marching band instruments and wearing colourful uniforms, stand near a grave covered with flowers that spell "Beatles". Standing behind the band are several dozen famous people.
Studio album by
the Beatles
Released 26 May 1967 (1967-05-26)
Recorded 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967
Studio EMI and Regent Sound, London
Genre
Length 39:36
Label
Producer George Martin
The Beatles chronology
A Collection of Beatles Oldies
(1966)		 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967)		 The Beatles
(1968)
The Beatles North American chronology
Revolver
(1966)		 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967)		 Magical Mystery Tour
(1967)

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.

It consistently holds the top spot on critics' lists of the greatest albums of all time. More than 32 million copies had been sold worldwide as of 2011. It remains one of the best-selling albums of all time and was still, in 2018, the UK's best-selling studio album.

In The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, Kevin Dettmar writes that Sgt. Pepper achieved "a combination of popular success and critical acclaim unequaled in twentieth-century art ... never before had an aesthetic and technical masterpiece enjoyed such popularity." Through the level of attention it received from the rock press and more culturally elite publications, the album achieved full cultural legitimisation for pop music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form.

Songs on the album

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

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