The song was first started by John Lennon, who had the opening lines of "I read the news today, oh boy." He started writing ...

Then, Sgt. Pepper came along. The title track, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “With a Little Help from My Friends,” helped transform a simple, militaristic concept into one of the band’s more ...

The Beatles'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is often regarded as the best album of all time. The album, released in May ...

In the experimental, psychedelic operetta that was The Beatles’ 1967 album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, drummer Ringo Starr got to don the role of Billy Shears, singer of the affable, ...

Sgt. Pepper is often cited as a psychedelic album, but it has some great pop songs on it. The best of these songs is “With a Little Help From My Friends.” Love is a constant topic in pop music, but ...

As much as we'd love to say "it was 50 years ago today" that Sgt. Pepper caused a musical revolution, the half-century anniversary of the Beatles' beloved, revered and eternally-played "Sgt. Pepper's ...

A lot of people seem to have misunderstood the new Beatles album. Richard Goldstein, reviewing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” in last Sunday’s Times, calls it “an album of special effects, ...

The Monkees television series may have only run for two seasons, but it continues to hold a special place for fans who enjoyed the mayhem and music Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, Micky Dolenz, and Davy ...

the final chord of "A Day In the Life," followed by track 14 in which they're heard recording the final piano chord that was eventually used). But the previously unreleased stuff isn't made up ...

Think about it: At 50, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is on equal plane with Dixieland jazz. After all, for those who purchased the Beatles’ 1967 opus, 1917 felt just as remote. All the more ...

A half-century later, Sgt. Pepper's, which ushered in the rock 'n' roll "concept album" — a collection of songs written around a central theme — and inspired musicians from Pink Floyd to Radiohead to ...