THE BEATLES | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band promotional poster, 1967

THE BEATLES

SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, 1967

455 x 630mm., original promotional poster by E.M.I., printed in Great Britain

RARE. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was the eight studio album by the Beatles and released on 1 June 1967 in the UK and the following day in the US. It raced to number one on both sides of the Atlantic, spending 27 weeks at number one in the UK and 15 weeks in the US. Radio stations scrapped thier planned scheduling and began to play the album in full, uninterrupted from start to finish, instead. The Summer of Love had begun.

Langdon Winner of Rolling Stone, recalled: "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released. In every city in Europe and America the radio stations played [it] ... and everyone listened ... For a brief while the irreparable fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young."

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