Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

The title of this article is ambiguous. Additional meanings are listed under Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (disambiguation) .

Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles' studio album
Publication (s)	May 26, 1967 ( UK ) , May 30, 1967 ( D ) , 0June 1, 1967 ( US )
Label (s)	Parlophone / Capitol / EMI / Universal Music Group
Format (s)	LP , CD , MC , download
Genre (s)	Psychedelic rock , rock , pop , art rock
Title (number)	13
running time	39 min 43 s
occupation	John Lennon - vocals , rhythm guitar , acoustic guitar , bongos , piano , organ , Hammond organ , conga , mellotron , cowbell Paul McCartney - vocals , bass , bongos, mellotron, piano, harmonium , organ, tambourine , timpani George Harrison - lead guitar , acoustic guitar, organ, harmonica , tambura , maracas , kettledrum , swarmandal , sitar , vocals Ringo Starr - drums , tubular bells , hand bells , bongos, conga, tambourine, maracas, harmonica, vocals various guest musicians: see recording dates
production	George Martin
Studio (s)	Abbey Road Studios , London
chronology Great Britain: A Collection of Beatles Oldies (1966) USA / Germany: Revolver (1966) Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Magical Mystery Tour (1967)

Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (short: Sgt. Pepper ) is the eighth studio album by the British band The Beatles , which was released in Great Britain on May 26, 1967, including the compilation album A Collection of Beatles Oldies , it was their ninth album there. In Germany, the album was released on May 30, 1967, here it was their twelfth album, including the two compilation albums. In the USA it was published on June 1, 1967, for the first time in a form almost identical to the original in Great Britain; here it was her 14th album.

The album is considered to be one of the first concept albums in pop music and a milestone in the genre.

Emergence

The release of the album reinforced the change in pop music that began in 1966. Hardly any other pop music album has been produced with a comparable effort. In addition, Sgt. Pepper fit into the so-called " summer of love " due to his psychedelic playfulness .

George Martin mentioned the beginning of the recording: “In November (1966) the Beatles returned to the studio for the first time since they decided not to go on tour. They were pretty fed up. They had been in a lot of trouble all year, and Brian Epstein feared they would go downhill. He thought it was the end of the Beatles, and in 1966 there were all sorts of signs of it. There was the disaster in the Philippines , the falling audiences at some of the shows, and they were fed up with being prisoners of their fame. "

Paul McCartney said of the original idea of ​​the album: “It was at the beginning of the hippie era and all over America there was a shimmering hippie atmosphere. I started thinking about what a really crazy name for a band could be. At that time there were many groups with names like 'Laughing Joe and His Medicine Band' […] with long interlaced names […]. I brought an idea back to the boys in London: 'Since we're trying to distance ourselves from ourselves - get away from touring and do more surreal things - why don't we become an alter ego band like Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band? '"

Ringo Starr (center) and George Harrison (right) on November 24, 1966 at the beginning of the recording for the Sgt. Pepper album

Studer J37 4-track recorder , with which Sgt. Pepper was recorded

The Sgt. Pepper album as an 8-track cassette

According to Paul McCartney and producer George Martin , Sgt. Pepper was inspired by the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds . “Without Pet Sounds , Sgt. Pepper would not have existed. Sgt. Pepper was an attempt to match pet sounds, ”commented George Martin. At the same time prevented release of Sgt. Pepper the appearance of Brian Wilson's album Smile , which is partially a response to the seventh album by the Beatles, Revolver , was supposed to be. Paul McCartney: "The biggest influence was, as I have said many times, the Beach Boys album Pet Sounds , and it was mainly the harmonies that I stole from there." The second major musical influence is the debut album Freak Out! by Frank Zappa . Paul McCartney considered Sgt. Pepper the Freak Out! the Beatles. The album inspired the Beatles to further musical experiments.

During its creation, the album was conceived as a total work of art (according to Ringo Starr as a “show album” and comparable to a rock opera ), which should reflect joie de vivre and take into account a new zeitgeist (“A splendid time is guaranteed for all”; German : 'Eine wonderful time is guaranteed for everyone ', from: Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! ). A kind of concept album with profound, sarcastic , interlaced and surrealistic lyrics was created. In order to achieve this, the Beatles exhausted all studio technical resources of the time. So the whole album is only produced with the help of the four-track technique, whereby special techniques were used, such as the extremely difficult parallel use of two four-track devices due to wow and flutter. Although eight-track recorders already existed in the US, they were not installed in the UK until late 1967. A Day in the Life presented eight-track technology for the first time in Great Britain using two synchronously switched four-track tape machines.

Commenting on the recording, George Martin said, “I introduced the Beatles to some new sounds and ideas, but when Sgt. Pepper came about they wanted everything out of their bag of tricks. They accepted everything I could find. "

Ringo Starr on George Martin: “When we were working on Sgt. Pepper, George Martin had really become an essential part of it all. We put in strings, brass, piano, etc. and George was the only one who could write it all down. He became part of the band. "

The Beatles also changed optically. Her mushroom hairstyles were trimmed and McCartney, Lennon and Starr had mustaches , Harrison initially had a full beard , but also a mustache for the album cover. The very short-sighted Lennon also bought round wire-rimmed glasses , which became his trademark.

A 40-piece orchestra and the Mellotron were used to create the surrealist sound structures , so that this music could not be reproduced live in 1967. The result was an album that, as one of the pioneers of rock music, showed and opened up new musical and technical possibilities. The recordings were made for the first time without upcoming tour stress, since the Beatles had given their last concert in San Francisco on August 29, 1966 in Candlestick Park . For the first time, the Beatles also printed their lyrics on the record cover to make the lyrical meaning visible. The tracks were largely inspired by the everyday life of the musicians.

“The Beatles' message has matured into a message of love, full of Hindu influences. The message goes to those people who hide behind a wall of illusion: 'When you've seen beyond yourself / then you may find / peace of mind / is waiting there / with our love / we could save the world / if they only knew '(song: Within You Without You ). "

- magazine it : July 2, 1967

Sgt. Pepper hit the zeitgeist of the time, although musically it is not a pure psychedelic album like Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn . Some pieces like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds , A Day in the Life, and Within You Without You , reveal their psychedelic origins. The first two of these were not played by several radio stations because they were assumed to have a connection to drugs, lyrically and musically.

Paul McCartney said: “The mood of the album corresponded to the zeitgeist because we ourselves fit into the mood of the time. There was clearly a popular movement there [...] We weren't really trying to satisfy that movement - we were just a part of it as we had always been. I claim that the Beatles were not the leaders but the speakers of their generation. "

George Harrison (right) in front of Abbey Road Studios , 1967

George Harrison : “The summer of 1967 […] there was definitely an atmosphere: you could feel what was going on with our friends - and with people who had similar goals in the US - even though we were miles apart. You could just pick up the atmosphere. "

Abbey Road Studio 2

Paul McCartney was mostly responsible for the pop songs, John Lennon and George Harrison for the psychedelic component. This can be heard on Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite , which - electronically alienated - pays homage to the days of the Victorian circus. The climax from a psychedelic point of view is Within You Without You , which was shaped by Harrison's Sitar . Harrison's interest in meditation and Indian philosophy comes into play here; with the help of psychoactive substances , it symbolizes the search for truth and meaning. Even if McCartney's compositions on the album tended more towards pop music, he nonetheless became the artistic head of the group; a status that had hitherto been attributed more to Lennon. So it was McCartney's idea to use Sgt. Pepper's fictional band as a comprehensive concept, including the cover design. Brian Epstein , the manager of the Beatles, did not approve of the cover and asked for a brown cardboard cover for the album. However, the Beatles' idea of ​​pressing the album on colorful vinyl was not implemented.

Label of the German LP pressing (re-edition 1969)

At the request of the record company EMI , two songs from the recordings for the album, Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever, were released as a single in February 1967. The single became the 13th number one hit in the US and the fourth number one hit in Germany. In Great Britain it was the first Beatles single since Please Please Me , which only reached second place in the British charts. George Martin later regretted giving in to the record company's wish and described it as the biggest mistake of his career not to leave the two songs on the album.

On April 20, 1967, the last recordings were made in the last mixes for the album took place a day later, on April 21, 1967. In the time of origin of the album the Beatles recorded four more songs, in addition to Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane , the Song Only a Northern Song , which was only released in January 1969 on the album Yellow Submarine , and the previously unreleased track Carnival of Light . Various studio musicians were used during the recordings for the album. In the period between December 6, 1966 and April 2, 1967, the Beatles required a production time of over 700 hours (mostly at night) four to six times a week on 129 recording days. The production costs of 165,000 euros (25,000 pounds ) today  were extremely high for the conditions at the time, and the use of 40 orchestral musicians and wind sections had to be financed from this.

John Lennon's Sgt. Pepper uniform

John Lennon, 1967

In conclusion, the album was rated as follows:

Paul McCartney: “After the record was finished, I loved it. For me it was a huge step forward [...] "

John Lennon: “Soberly, it was nothing more than an album called Sgt Pepper , on which the pieces of music were linked. Back then it was a wonderful idea, but it no longer matters today. "

George Harrison: "[...] I didn't really enjoy recording the album on the whole." "I liked Sgt Pepper when it was finished. I knew it seemed different to people and I was very happy with the cover concept. "

Ringo Starr: " Sgt Pepper seemed to capture the mood of the year, and it also enabled a lot of other people to start from there and get going."

George Martin: “When you look back on Pepper , you can tell that it really was an icon. It was the record of that time and it probably changed the understanding of recordings, but we didn't do that consciously. "

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was originally supposed to come out as a double album with a different series of titles. Due to financial concerns of the record company, it was officially released in its now known form on June 1, 1967. However, this date was partially brought forward to May 26, 1967. The reason was that the private broadcaster Radio London had already broadcast the album in full on May 12, 1967 and henceforth advertised that it was the first station with the record.

The album debuted at number one on the UK charts on May 31, 1967, where it remained for 22 weeks. It had enough gold record sales on its release day and was the Beatles' eighth number one album in the UK. In Germany it was the seventh album by the Beatles, which reached number one on the charts. There were over 300,000 pre-orders for the album in the UK. In the US, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band also reached number one on the charts, where it remained for 15 weeks, making it the Beatles' tenth number one album. In January 1997, the album went multi-platinum in the US for eleven million copies. No single was released from the album in 1967, the title track was only released as a single in 1978. On June 25, 1967, the Beatles set a worldwide television audience in the BBC telecast Our World by satellite broadcast her new single All You Need Is Love live before that, however, was not included on the album and was released on July 7 1967th

By January 1, 1971, the album had sold around seven million times. In 2009, it was second in the UK's best-selling album rankings after Queen's 1981 album Greatest Hits . The American music magazine Rolling Stone published a list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003, in which Sgt. Pepper had been voted number one.

At the 1968 Grammy Awards , Sgt. Pepper won four awards in the categories "Best Album", "Best Cover (Graphics)", "Best Technical Recording (non-classical)" and "Best Contemporary Album".

The album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in a mono and a stereo version. In Germany the album was only distributed in stereo mix. Sound engineer Richard Lush, one of Geoff Emerick's assistants , said that the only correct version of the album was mono, as the Beatles were always present during mono mixes. The stereo mixes were carried out by George Martin, Geoff Emerick and Richard Lush without the Beatles in a few days (March 6th, 4th, 6th, 7th, 17th and 20th), some sound corrections were made and effects were changed .

For example, the mixes of the mono version differ significantly from the stereo version for some songs: Within You Without You (another laughter at the end of the song), Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (recap) (four extra drum hits can be heard at the beginning of the mono version and the audience noises are different from the stereo version), She's Leaving Home (the mono version runs much faster), Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (the lead guitar and the audience noises are louder in the mono version), Good Morning Good Morning (the Mixing of the lead guitar and the animal sounds are different), Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (the organ sounds are louder in the mono version) and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (the singing sounds more "psychedelic" in the mono version).

Other - unused - recording versions / mixes of the songs Strawberry Fields Forever , Penny Lane , A Day in the Life , Good Morning Good Morning , Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! , Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds , Within You Without You (Instrumental) and Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) can be found on the album Anthology 2 . There is extensive unreleased material on the May 2017 re-release of Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album .

Cover design

Beatles Museum, Liverpool

The cover of the album was designed - in collaboration with Paul McCartney - by the gallery owner Robert Fraser as art director , the pop-art artist Peter Blake , his wife Jann Haworth , Al Vandenberg and the photographer Michael Cooper . The photo session took place on March 30, 1967 at Michael Cooper's Chelsea Manor Studios in London. The album cover is an outstanding work in the history of cover art. The group picture with flowers shows the Beatles in colorful fantasy uniforms, surrounded by a group of 70 personalities from all over the world, assembled and united as a community of the "new free people" that Timothy Leary had spoken of. They had one thing in common: They tried to implement the earthly opposites of this world in some form in a mind-changing way. They represented many of the influences that shaped the Beatles and their music themselves.

In front of it, in a flowerbed, is the word BEATLES composed of red hyacinths with a guitar made of yellow hyacinths in front of it, surrounded by utensils such as mobile televisions, Buddha statues, water pipes , garden gnomes or Japanese stone figures. The idea of ​​designing the band name with flowers came from Jann Haworth, he said.

The following celebrities and objects can be seen on the cover (number in brackets if there are several appearances):

• Sri Yukteswar Giri
• Sri Mahavatar Babaji
• Stan Laurel
• Richard Lindner
• Oliver Hardy
• Karl Marx
• HG Wells
• Dion DiMucci
• Karlheinz Stockhausen
• Sri Paramahansa Yogananda
• Alberto Vargas
• Hairdressing models made of wax (2)
• Stuart Sutcliffe
• Max Miller
• The Petty Girl by George Petty (2)
• Marlon Brando
• Tom Mix
• Oscar Wilde
• David Livingstone
• Johnny Weissmüller
• Stephen Crane
• Issy Bonn
• Dylan Thomas
• George Bernard Shaw
• Horace Clifford Westermann
• Albert Stubbins
• Sri Lahiri Mahasaya
• Lewis Carroll
• TE Lawrence
• Shirley Temple (3; once as a rag doll by Jann Haworth)
• a fabric grandmother doll by Jann Haworth
• a George Harrison wax figure
• a John Lennon wax figure
• a Ringo-Starr wax figure
• a Paul McCartney wax figure
• John Lennon with a French horn
• Ringo Starr with a trumpet
• Paul McCartney with an English horn
• George Harrison with a flute
• Tyrone Power
• Larry Bell
• Albert Einstein
• Bobby Breen
• Marlene Dietrich
• a legionnaire of the Buffalo Order
• Diana Dors
• Sonny Liston
• a Mexican candlestick
• a mobile television
• Stone figures (4; two girls figures, a Snow figure and a Japanese )
• a statue from John Lennon's house
• a trophy
• an Indian doll
• a bass drum , hand painted by Peter Blake
• a water pipe
• a snake made of velvet
• a garden gnome
• a euphonium
• Tony Curtis
• Wallace Berman
• Tommy Handley
• Marilyn Monroe
• William S. Burroughs
• Aleister Crowley
• Mae West
• Lenny Bruce
• WC Fields
• Carl Gustav Jung
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Fred Astaire
• Richard Merkin
• Huntz Hall
• Simon Rodia
• Bob Dylan
• Aubrey Beardsley
• Robert Peel
• Aldous Huxley
• Terry Southern

Arrangement of the people on the cover: (1)  Sri Yukteswar Giri , (2)  Aleister Crowley , (3)  Mae West , (4)  Lenny Bruce , (5)  Karlheinz Stockhausen , (6)  WC Fields , (7)  Carl Gustav Jung , (8)  Edgar Allan Poe , (9)  Fred Astaire , (10)  Richard Merkin , (11) The Varga Girl, (12)  Leo Gorcey , (13)  Huntz Hall , (14)  Simon Rodia , (15)  Bob Dylan , (16)  Aubrey Beardsley , (17)  Robert Peel , (18) Aldous Huxley , (19) Dylan Thomas , (20) Terry Southern , (21)  Dion DiMucci , (22)  Tony Curtis , (23)  Wallace Berman , ( 24)  Tommy Handley , (25)  Marilyn Monroe , (26)  William S. Burroughs , (27)  Sri Mahavatar Babaji , (28)  Stan Laurel , (29)  Richard Lindner , (30)  Oliver Hardy , (31) Karl Marx , (32) HG Wells , (33) Paramahansa Yogananda , (34A) James Joyce , (34) wax figure, (35)  Stuart Sutcliffe , (36) wax figure, (37)  Max Miller , (38) The Petty Girl by George Petty , (39)  Marlon Brando , (39B)  Marcello Mastroianni , (40)  Tom Mix , (41)  Oscar Wilde , (42)  Tyrone Power , (43)  Larry Bell , (44)  David L. ivingstone , (45)  Johnny Weissmuller , (46)  Stephen Crane , (47)  Issy Bonn , (48)  George Bernard Shaw , (49)  HC Westermann , (50)  Albert Stubbins , (51)  Sri Lahiri Mahasaya , (52)  Lewis Carroll , (53)  TE Lawrence , (54)  Sonny Liston , (54A) unknown (55) The Petty Girl (see [38] by George Petty , (56)  George Harrison wax figure, (57)  John Lennon wax figure , (58)  Shirley Temple , (58A)  Marcello Mastroianni , (59)  Ringo Starr wax figure, (60)  Paul McCartney wax figure, (61)  Albert Einstein , (62) John Lennon, (63) Ringo Starr, ( 64) Paul McCartney, (65) George Harrison, (65A)  Bette Davis , (65B)  Timothy Carey , (66)  Bobby Breen , (67)  Marlene Dietrich , (68)  Gandhi , (69) an American veteran , (70)  Diana Dors , (71)  Shirley Temple

The doubles shown come from Madame Tussaud's London wax museum . John Lennon also wanted Jesus , Elvis Presley and Adolf Hitler for the cover. Hitler's cardboard display was not used during the preparations for the recording because there were concerns about a controversy that the Beatles might want to glorify him - and thus National Socialism . An image of Jesus was not even prepared because of the media hype after Lennon's statement ("We [the Beatles] are more popular than Jesus ") a few months earlier. Mahatma Gandhi was featured on the original recording, but was retouched in the finished image as EMI feared they would accuse the band of making fun of Gandhi. Actor Leo Gorcey was also subsequently removed , as he expected payment for showing his likeness on the album cover.

The Shirley Temple doll to the right of the photo, made by Jann Haworth, wears a sweatshirt that reads “Welcome The Rolling Stones ” and “Good Guys”. The sweatshirt came from Michael Cooper's young son Adam.

Ringo Starr said of the cover: “Sgt. Pepper was a special album, so we wanted to dress up when it came to the album cover, we wanted to be these people, all the “peppers”. That was flower power at its peak. It was love and peace, it was a fabulous time for me and the world. "

Paul McCartney said of the cover: “We got artists involved in this. I was very good friends with the London art dealer Robert Fraser, a guy with one of the best visual looks I've ever known. It was very exciting to be friends with him back then and I showed him the whole cover idea for the album. He represented the artist Peter Blake and was very close friends with the photographer Michael Cooper. Robert said, 'Let Michael take some pictures. Peter can create a background and then we put that together in a collage. ' John wanted some eccentric guys like Hitler and Jesus because he just wanted to be bold and naughty. He liked taking risks and I knew what he was doing. I didn't agree with that, but he was just trying to be eccentric, that was all. Robert Fraser and Michael Cooper were pals with the Rolling Stones, as were we, and they said, 'It would be great if there was a reference to the Stones here.' So we put them in a corner. "

Several artists later parodied this cover, including Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention on their 1968 album We're Only in It for the Money and the Cologne group Bläck Fööss on their album Et es 20 Johr jenau jenau her now . There is even an official Russian version with Cyrillic letters on the drum.

The back of the cover is held in a strong shade of red. For the first time on a Beatles album, the lyrics are listed in full. On the back photo you can see the Beatles in the same fantasy uniforms as on the front. Only Paul McCartney has his back to the viewer and appears taller than his colleagues - for conspiracy theorists an indication that McCartney was replaced by a doppelganger in 1966 after he was allegedly killed in a traffic accident (see: Paul is dead ).

On the inside of the flip cover, all four Beatles are again shown in their fantasy uniforms. The band members wear the Order of the British Empire, awarded to them as members in 1965 . Like all the others on the cover, this photo was taken by Michael Cooper.

SLC Pepper - Life-size mural by Jann Haworth in Salt Lake City , Utah

In 2004, Jann Haworth began in Salt Lake City in the US -Bundesstaat Utah work on SLC PEPPER , a 15 meter wide and 9 meter high mural that is supposed to represent a contemporary bourgeois version of Sgt Pepper cover. Together with more than 30 local, national and international artists, Haworth created a new set of “Heroes of the 21st Century” in stenciled graffiti , each of which replaces one of the characters originally portrayed. Only outlines of the Beatles can be seen. SLC PEPPER is to be further developed as an ongoing art project.

Track list

With the exception of the title Within You Without You , which was composed by George Harrison, all songs are by Lennon / McCartney .

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No.	song	author	Lead vocals	Length stereo version	Length mono version
01	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:03	2:03
02	With a Little Help from My Friends	Lennon / McCartney	Rigid	2:44	2:45
03	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	3:28	3:28
04th	Getting Better	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:48	2:47
05	Fixing a hole	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:37	2:38
06th	She's Leaving Home	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	3:35	3:26
07th	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	2:38	2:39

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No.	song	author	Lead vocals	Length stereo version	Length mono version
08th	Within You Without You	Harrison	Harrison	5:05	5:08
09	When I'm Sixty-Four	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:38	2:40
10	Lovely Rita	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney	2:42	2:46
11	Good Morning Good Morning	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon	2:41	2:35
12	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)	Lennon / McCartney	McCartney, Lennon and Harrison	1:19	1:19
13	A day in the life	Lennon / McCartney	Lennon and McCartney	5:39	5:36

The lengths of the songs are based on the 2009 CD versions.

While the needle of the turntable slides over the outlet groove on the second side of the LP, a high-pitched whistle of 15 kHz can be heard on early pressings  , which should arouse the attention of listening dogs. In the ( concentric ) end groove itself there is the hidden title Sgt.Pepper's Inner Groove (The Run-Out Groove) , which itself only lasts about two seconds, but is repeated indefinitely (only on manually operated record players ). Some claim that the phrase “Will Paul return as superman?” Is played backwards . to hear (see Paul is dead ), others hear the sentence “We'll fuck you like the supermen”. In the 1997 biography of Barry Miles, McCartney took up this point and told of people who had complained to him about the "messes" in the outlet groove. He made it clear that the sentence he remembered was “Couldn't really be any other”. Walter Everett, on the other hand, interprets McCartney's phrase as “Never could be any other way” and cites April 21, 1967 as the recording date. The whistle and the empty groove were omitted in later pressings or were added as a normal track after A Day in the Life .

Sgt. Pepper's Inner Groove was not pressed on the US version of the album, it only appeared on March 24, 1980 on the US album The Beatles Rarities .

Recording dates

The recordings for the album took place between November 24, 1966 and April 20, 1967 exclusively in Abbey Road Studios (Studio 1, 2 and 3) under the production direction of George Martin . The sound engineer for the recordings was Geoff Emerick , his assistants were Phil McDonald, Richard Lush, Ken Scott and Adrian Ibbetson. The recording engineers for Getting Better were Malcolm Addey, Ken Townshend and Graham Kirkby , and Adrian Ibbetson for the song Fixing a Hole . In addition to George Martin, guest musicians took part in nine other songs.

The following songs were not recorded as a music group: Within You Without You was recorded with George Harrison and guest musicians, She's Leaving Home only featured Paul McCartney and John Lennon and guest musicians.

No.	song	Recording dates	Studio	Musician	Sound carrier (first release)
01	Strawberry Fields Forever	Nov 24, 28, 29, 1966, 0Dec 8, 9, 15, 21 + 22, 1966	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon : lead guitar , bongos , vocals Paul McCartney : bass , bongos, mellotron , timpani George Harrison : Mellotron, Svaramandal, Maracas , Percussion Ringo Starr : drums , percussion George Martin : Mellotron Mal Evans : Tambourine Neil Aspinall : Guiro Terry Doran: Maracas Tony Fisher, Greg Bowen, Derek Watkins, Stanley Roderick: Trumpet John Hall, Derek Simpson, Norman Jones: cello	Single A-side
02	The Beatles' Fourth Christmas Record	Nov 25, 1966	Dick James Studio	John Lennon: Language Paul McCartney: Language George Harrison: Language Ringo Starr: Language	Flexi-Disk for Beatles fan club members
03	When I'm Sixty-Four	December 21 + 22, 1966	Abbey Road Studio 1 and 2	John Lennon: guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, vocals George Harrison: Backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, tubular bells Robert Burns, Henry Mac Kenzie, Frank Reidy: Clarinet	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
04th	Penny Lane	29 + 30 Dec. 1966, 04-6 Jan 1967, 09, 10, 12 + 17 Jan 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2 and 3	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, piano , clapping hands, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, harmonium , clapping hands, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, clapping hands, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, tubular bells, tambourine Ray Swinfield, P. Goody, Manny Winters, Dennis Walton: Flute David Mason, Leon Calvert, Freddy Clayton, Bert Courrtley, Duncan Campbell: Trumpet and flugelhorn Dick Morgan, Mike Winfield: Oboe Frank Clarke: double bass	Single A-side
05	Carnival of Light	0Jan. 5, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon:? Paul McCartney:? George Harrison:? Ringo Starr:?	unpublished
06th	A day in the life	Jan 19-20, 1967, 0Feb. 3rd, 10-22th 1967	Abbey Road Studio 1 and 2	John Lennon: acoustic guitar, piano, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, vocals George Harrison: Maracas Ringo Starr: drums, congas Erich Grünberg, Granville Jones, Bill Monro, Jürgen Hess, Hans Geiger, D. Bradley, Lionel Bentley, David McCallum, Donald Weekes, Henry Datyner, Sidney Sax, Ernest Scott: Geige John Underwood, Gwynne Edwards, Bernard Davis, John Meek: Viola Francisco Gabarro, Dennis Vigay, Alan Daziel, Alex Nifosi: cello Cyril MacArthur, Gordon Pearce: double bass John Marston: harp Basil Tschaikov, Jack Brymer: clarinet Roger Lord: oboe N. Fawcett, Alfred Waters: Bassoon Clifford Seville, David Sandeman: Flute Alan Civil, Neil Sanders: French Horn David Mason, Monty Montgomery, Harold Jackson: Trumpet Raymond Brown, Raymond Premru, T. Moore: Trumpet Michael Barnes: tuba Tristan Fry: Timpani	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
07th	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	0Feb. 1-2, 1967, 0March 3-6, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: lead guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, lead guitar, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums James W. Buck, Neil Sanders, Tony Randall, John Burden: French Horn	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
08th	Good Morning Good Morning	0Feb. 8 + 16, 1967, March 13, 28 + 29, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2 and 3	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, drums, lead guitar, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine Barrie Cameron, David Glyde, Alan Holmes: saxophone John Lee: Trumpet	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
09	Fixing a hole	0Feb 9 + 21, 1967	Regent Sound Studio, Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: bass, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, lead guitar, harpsichord , vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, maracas George Martin: harpsichord	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
10	Only a Northern Song	Feb. 13-14, 1967, Apr. 20, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: piano Paul McCartney: Bass George Harrison: organ, vocals Ringo Starr: drums Glockenspiel, Trumpet: Unknown	Yellow Submarine
11	Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!	Feb. 17 + 20, 1967, March 28, 29 + 31, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: Hammond organ, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, lead guitar George Harrison: tambourine, bass, harmonica Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, harmonica Mal Evans , Neil Aspinall : Harmonica George Martin: harmonium , organ , mellotron, glockenspiel	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
12	Lovely Rita	February 23 + 24, 1967, 0March 7 + 21, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: acoustic guitar, paper and comb, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, paper and comb, vocals George Harrison: acoustic guitar, paper and comb, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, paper and comb George Martin: piano	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
13	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Feb. 28 - 0March 2, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: lead guitar, vocals Paul McCartney: bass, organ, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, acoustic guitar, tambura , backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
14th	Getting Better	0March 9, 10, 23, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: lead guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: lead guitar, bass, electric piano, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, tambura, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, conga	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
15th	Within You Without You	March 15 + 22, 1967, 0April 3 + 4, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 1 and 2	George Harrison: tambura , sitar , vocals Neil Aspinal: Tambura Erich Grünberg, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothsstein, Jack Greene: Geige Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan: Cello Buddhadev Kansara: Tambura Natwar Soni: Tabla unknown Indian musicians: Esraj , Svarmandal	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
16	She's Leaving Home	March 17-20, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: vocals Paul McCartney: vocals Erich Grünberg, Derek Jakobs, Trevor Williams, Jose Luis Garcia: violin John Underwood, Stephen Shingles: Viola Dennis Vigay, Alan Dalziel: Cello Gordon Pearce: double bass Sheila Bromberg: Harp	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
17th	With a Little Help from My Friends	March 29-30, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: Cowbell, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, piano, backing vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, vocals George Martin: Hammond organ	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
18th	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)	0Apr 1, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 1	John Lennon: rhythm guitar, backing vocals Paul McCartney: bass, Hammond organ, vocals George Harrison: lead guitar, backing vocals Ringo Starr: drums, tambourine, maracas, backing vocals	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
19th	The run-out groove	Apr 21, 1967	Abbey Road Studio 2	John Lennon: Language Paul McCartney: Language George Harrison: Language Ringo Starr: Language	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Billy Shears

Billy Shears was the pen name of Ringo Starr on the album. Shears is only mentioned in the title track, where he is announced as the singer for the following song With a Little Help From My Friends :

"So let me introduce to you the one and only Billy Shears."

The name Billy Shears appeared a second time in Ringo Starr's song I'm the Greatest (a composition by John Lennon) in 1973 :

"Yes, my name is Billy Shears, you know it has been for so many years."

It is sometimes presented in connection with the Paul-is-dead theory mentioned above that Billy Shears was in fact a reference to the singer William Shears Campbell , who replaced McCartney after his (alleged) death.

In the 1978 film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band produced by the RSO , the character Billy Shears is played by the British musician Peter Frampton .

Re-releases

• On June 1, 1987, the album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was first released as a CD only in a stereo mix. The mastering was next George Martin from the sound engineer of the Abbey Road Studios monitored Mike Jarrett. The CD is accompanied by a 34-page illustrated booklet that contains photos of the Beatles, a foreword by George Martin, explanations of the album and the individual songs by Mark Lewisohn , explanations of the cover by Peter Blake, general information about the cover and the lyrics . The plastic cover and the booklet are in a cardboard sleeve.
• On September 9, 2009 the album was released remastered in a stereo mix on CD and as part of The Beatles Stereo Box Set . The remastered mono version was available as part of the box The Beatles in mono , also since September 9, 2009. The stereo version of the CD, which was re-released in 2009, was remastered by Guy Massey and Steve Rooke, the mono version by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee and Guy Massey. While the mono CD is based on the original LP version in the cover design including the cut-out sheet in mini format, the fold-out CD cardboard cover of the stereo version has been redesigned by Drew Lorimer. The stereo CD also includes a 32-page booklet that contains photos of the Beatles, a foreword by Paul McCartney and George Martin, explanations of the album and the individual songs by Mark Lewisohn, explanations of the cover by Peter Blake, general information about the cover , Song lyrics, Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley album information, and Allan Rouse and Kevin Howlett recording information. The CD contains documentation in QuickTime format, consisting of video clips and modified images from the studio sessions; Accompanied by played music tracks, outtakes or studio conversations from the album.
• The remastered stereo vinyl long-playing record was released in November 2012 with the The Beatles Remastered Vinyl Box Set , the remastered mono-vinyl long-playing record in September 2014 with the box The Beatles In Mono .
• The album was first published in download format on November 16, 2010 on iTunes , and from December 24, 2015, the album was also available from other providers and streaming services.

50th anniversary edition

Advertisement for Sgt. Pepper 's 50th anniversary edition in London

For the 50th anniversary, on May 26th 2017, the album Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was re-released. Giles Martin remixed the album with sound engineer Sam Okell. The goal was to create a stereo mix based on the original mono mix from 1967. The 5.1 version of the album and the recordings of the sessions were also mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. The songs Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were added as bonus tracks to the double CD and the box set. Not included are the songs Only a Northern Song and Carnival of Light . The mastering for the stereo recordings was done by Miles Showell and Sean Magee. James Clarke was responsible for the audio restoration. The new design was created by Darren Evans.

The album was re-released in four versions on May 26, 2017, and two more versions followed on December 15, 2017:

Single CD

The Anniversary Edition includes a 32-page booklet with a foreword by Paul McCartney from March 2017, a text by George Martin from 1987, a foreword by Giles Martin, background information on the album and cover, the lyrics of the songs and various pictures:

• Sgt.Pepper (2017 Stereo Mix)

Deluxe double CD

The Deluxe Edition comes in a cardboard box, which contains a 60-page booklet with a foreword by Paul McCartney from March 2017, a text by George Martin from 1987, a foreword by Giles Martin, background information on the album and the cover , Data on the recordings and the individual songs, the lyrics of the songs and various images. The two CDs are placed in a cover that contains the original cut-out sheet in CD format.

CD 1:

• Sgt.Pepper (2017 Stereo Mix)

CD 2:

1. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9) - 2:37
2. With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 - Instrumental) - 3:15
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Take 1) - 3:40
4. Getting Better (Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End) - 2:19
5. Fixing A Hole (Speech And Take 3) - 3:28
6. She's Leaving Home (Take 1 - Instrumental) - 3:49
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Take 4) - 3:08
8. Within You Without You (Take 1 - Indian Instruments) - 5:33
9. When I'm Sixty-Four (Take 2) - 3:00
10. Lovely Rita (Speech And Take 9) - 3:05
11. Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8) - 2:47
12. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Take 8) - 2:00
13. A Day In The Life (Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord) - 4:41
14. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7) - 3:17
15. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26) - 3:19
16. Strawberry Fields Forever (Stereo Mix - 2015) - 4:10
17. Penny Lane (Take 6 - Instrumental) - 2:56
18. Penny Lane (Stereo Mix - 2017) - 3:00

Vinyl (180 g, LP)

The single vinyl album (2017 Stereo Mix) was released on December 15, 2017.

Picture Disc

The album (2017 Stereo Mix) was released as a picture disc on December 15, 2017 .

Deluxe Vinyl (180 g, 2 LPs)

The double LP contains the cut-out sheet and a four-page fold-out sheet with information about the album and cover, data about the recordings and the individual songs.

LP 1:

• Sgt.Pepper (2017 Stereo Mix)

LP 2:

page 1

1. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9 And Speech)
2. With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 - Instrumental)
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Take 1)
4. Getting Better (Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End)
5. Fixing A Hole (Speech And Take 3)
6. She's Leaving Home (Take 1 - Instrumental)
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Take 4)
   

Page 2

1. Within You Without You (Take 1 - Indian Instruments)
2. When I'm Sixty-Four (Take 2)
3. Lovely Rita (Speech And Take 9)
4. Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8)
5. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Take 8)
6. A Day In The Life (Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord)

Box (4 CDs / DVD / Blu-ray)

Reproduction of a circus poster by Pablo Fanque from 1843 depicting John Lennon for the song Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! inspired

The box set is enclosed in a cardboard box in LP format and has a holographic cover. The box contains a 148-page book in LP format with a foreword by Paul McCartney from March 2017, a text by George Martin from 1987, a foreword by Giles Martin, background information on the album and cover, dates on the recordings and to the individual songs as well as further information and descriptions (The London Underground, The World in 1967, Sgt. Pepper's Musical Revolution, Sgt. Pepper arrives, Sgt. Pepper in America) , the lyrics of the songs and various pictures. The four CDs, the DVD and Blu-ray are inserted in a cover that is modeled on the LP cover by Sgt. Pepper. A reprint of an advertising poster from 1967 as well as the circus poster by Pablo Fanque and the cut-out sheet were enclosed with the box .

CD 1:

• Sgt.Pepper (2017 Stereo Mix)

CD 2:

1. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) - 2:40
2. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 4) - 3:00
3. Strawberry Fields Forever [Take 7) - 3:17
4. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26) - 3:19
5. Strawberry Fields Forever (Stereo Mix - 2015) - 4:10
6. When I'm Sixty-Four (Take 2) - 3:00
7. Penny Lane (Take 6 - Instrumental) - 2:56
8. Penny Lane (Vocal Overdubs And Speech) - 1:47
9. Penny Lane (Stereo Mix - 2017) - 3:00
10. A Day In The Life (Take 1) - 4:41
11. A Day In The Life (Take 2) - 4:49
12. A Day In The Life (Orchestra Overdub) - 0:56
13. A Day In The Life (Hummed Last Chord - Takes 8, 9, 10 and 11) - 1:55
14. A Day In The Life (The Last Chord) - 1:55
15. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 1 - Instrumental) - 2:34
16. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9 And Speech) - 2:37
17. Good Morning Good Morning (Take 1 - Instrumental, Breakdown) - 1:04
18. Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8) - 2:47

CD 3:

1. Fixing A Hole (Take 1) - 3:00
2. Fixing A Hole (Speech And Take 3) - 3:28
3. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Speech From Before Take 1; Take 4 And Speech At End) - 3:08
4. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Take 7) - 2:35
5. Lovely Rita (Speech And Take 9) - 3:05
6. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Take 1 And Speech At The End) - 3:40
7. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Speech, False Start And Take 5) - 4:08
8. Getting Better (Take 1 - Instrumental And Speech At The End) - 2:19
9. Getting Better (Take 12) - 2:45
10. Within You Without You (Take 1 - Indian Instruments Only) - 5:33
11. Within You Without You (George Coaching The Musicians) - 3:56
12. She's Leaving Home (Take 1 - Instrumental) - 3:49
13. She's Leaving Home (Take 6 - Instrumental) - 3:48
14. With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1 - False Start And Take 2 - Instrumental) - 3:15
15. Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Speech And Take 8) - 2:00

CD 4:

• Sgt.Pepper and bonus tracks in mono:

(Tracks 1–13: 2017 Direct Transfer of Sgt. Pepper Original Mono Mix)

14. Strawberry Fields Forever (Original Mono Mix) - 4:09
15. Penny Lane (Original Mono Mix) - 3:02
16. A Day In The Life (Unreleased First Mono Mix) - 4:43
17. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Unreleased Mono Mix - No. 11) - 3:50
18. She's Leaving Home (Unreleased First Mono Mix) - 3:42
19. Penny Lane (Capitol Records US Promo Single - Mono Mix) - 3:01

Discs 5 & 6 (Blu-ray & DVD)

• Music (Blu-ray & DVD):
  • New 5.1 -Surround audio mix of Sgt Pepper. -Album and Penny Lane , plus 2015er 5.1 surround mix of Strawberry Fields Forever (Blu-ray: DTS , HD Master Audio 5.1, Dolby True HD 5.1 / DVD: DTS Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • High-Resolution Audio versions of the 2017er Sgt Pepper. Stereo mix and 2017er Penny Lane stereo mix, plus 2015er Strawberry Fields Forever hi-res stereo mix (Blu-ray: LPCM Stereo 96kHz / 24-bit / DVD: LPCM stereo)
• Videos (Blu-ray & DVD):
  • The Making of Sgt. Pepper (restored documentary from 1992)
  • Music Videos: A Day In The Life , Strawberry Fields Forever , Penny Lane ( restored in 4K )

Limited special editions

• In Japan , the album was released in stereo in July 1967, the record was also pressed on red vinyl.

From the late 1970s the album Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was pressed in several countries as a picture disc or in colored vinyl:

• 1978: Yellow vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Red vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Blue vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: White vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Violet vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Green vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Orange vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Clear vinyl (catalog number: Pathé Marconi EMI - C 066 04.177), France
• 1978: Marbled Vinyl (Catalog Number: Capitol - SEAV 11840), Canada
• 1978: Yellow vinyl (catalog number: Odeon - 10C 064 04.177), Spain
• August 1978: Picture Disc (catalog number: Capitol SEAX 11840), USA
• January 1979: Picture Disc - not identical to US edition (catalog number: Parlophone PHO 7027), UK
• 1979: Yellow vinyl (catalog number: 5C 062-04177), the Netherlands
• 1982: Red Vinyl (catalog number: Odeon - EAS-70137), Japan

Chart positions of the album

album		Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
Type	title	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
Studio album	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	May 26, 1967	0June 1, 1967	May 30, 1967	1	1	1	Parlophone PMC 7027 (mono) PCS 7027 (stereo)	Capitol MAS 2653 (mono) SMAS 2653 (stereo)	LISTEN TO Elektrola SHZE 401 (Stereo)
Studio album CD first release	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	0June 1, 1987	June 1987	June 1987	3	141	-	Parlophone CDP 7 46442 2	Capitol CDP 7 46442 2	EMI CDP 7 46442 2
Studio album remastered CD re-release	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band	0Sep 9 2009	0Sep 9 2009	0Sep 9 2009	5	5	50	Apple / EMI 3824192	Apple / Capitol 3824192	Apple / EMI 3824192
Studio album	Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Anniversary Edition)	May 26, 2017	May 26, 2017	May 26, 2017	1	3	4th	Apple / Universal CD: 602557455304 2CD: 602557455366 Box: 602557455328	Apple / Universal CD: 602557455304 2CD: 602557455366 Box: 602557455328	Apple / Universal CD: 602557455304 2CD: 602557455366 Box: 602557455328

The album was able to place itself in the top ten of the charts in Great Britain four times:

• 1987: 3rd place - the occasion was the first CD release and the 20th anniversary of the album
• 1992: 6th place - the occasion was the 25th anniversary of the album
• 2009: 5th place - the occasion was the remastered CD re-release of the album
• 2017: 1st place - the occasion was the 50th anniversary of the album

Single releases

single	Release Date			Best placement in the charts			Label catalog no.
A side / B side	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE	GB	US	DE
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help from My Friends / A Day in the Life	Sep 30 1978	Aug 14, 1978	-	63	71 / -	nv	Parlophone R6022	Capitol 4612	-
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / With a Little Help from My Friends / Within You Without You	-	-	Sep 1978	nv	nv	-	-	-	Apple 1C 006-06838

Homage

In 1988 the tribute album "Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father" was released for the 21st anniversary. a. the number 1 hits "With A Little Help From My Frieds" by Wet Wet Wet and "She's Leaving Home" by Billy Bragg were included.

In 1992 the album was recorded by the American band Big Daddy in the vocal style of the 1950s.

On the occasion of the 50th anniversary in 2017, the Second-Hand Orchestra, founded for this purpose, brought a version in Swiss dialect to the stage. In addition to adaptations of the Pepper album, own songs related to the album were added.

literature

• The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 .
• Everett, Walter: The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology . Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0 .
• Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years . ISBN 0-600-61207-4 .
• Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Chronicle. ISBN 0-600-61001-2 .
• Neville Stannard: The Long & Winding Road . ISBN 0-907080-96-0 .
• Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head . ISBN 978-0-09-952679-7 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide . ISBN 978-3-9809137-1-3 .
• Christoph Maus: The Beatles Worldwide II . ISBN 3-9809137-2-4 .
• Derek Taylor : It Was Twenty Years Ago . Bantam Press, London 1987, ISBN 978-0-593-01269-7 .
• George Martin , William Pearson: With a little help from my friends: The making of Sgt. Pepper . Little / Brown, Boston 1994, ISBN 0-316-54783-2 .
• George Martin, William Pearson: Summer of Love: How Sgt. Pepper came about. Translated from the English by Ulrike Seeberger and Frank Jankowski . Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89487-271-3 .
• Allan F. Moore: The Beatles: Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge / New York 1997. ISBN 0-521-57381-5 .
• Walter Grasskamp : The cover of Sgt. Pepper. A snapshot of pop culture . Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-8031-5171-6 .
• Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band , Companion Book for the Super Deluxe Edition 2017 .

Web links

• Information on Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (official site)
• Information on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (UK)
• Information on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (USA)
• High resolution photo of the cover
• Photos from the cover, with instructions (English)
• Who are They? - Graphics for precise localization of people and objects
• Lyrics and record covers in LyricWiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ Everett, Walter The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology , Oxford University Press 1999. ISBN 978-0-19-512941-0 , p. 123.
2. ^ Ian MacDonald: Revolution in the Head , Chicago 2007, pp. 249 f.
3. ↑ George Martin: Summer of Love: The Making of Sgt.Pepper , London 1994, pp. 1-5.
4. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 237.
5. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 241.
6. ↑ Peter Doggett: Smile. The Big Lost Album in Kingsley Abbott (Eds.): The Beach Boys and Brian Wilson , ISBN 978-3-85445-160-0 , Hannibal, Koch Publishing Group.
7. ↑ ^{a b} The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 253.
8. ↑ MacDonald, Iain. Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties , 1994, p. 171 / edition 2008, p. 350
9. ↑ Norman, Philip. Paul McCartney , 2017, ISBN 978-3-492-05825-4 , p. 304.
10. ↑ 10 Things That 'Sgt. Pepper 'made possible by the Beatles
11. ^ The Beatles Anthology, p. 241.
12. ↑ ^{a b} The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 242.
13. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 254.
14. ↑ Decision not to use Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever for the album
15. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 252.
16. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 253.
17. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 242.
18. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 252.
19. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 253.
20. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 252.
21. ↑ SWR1 Legends of Pop - May 26, 2007
22. ^ The RADIO LONDON Story: Part Six: Peel, Pepper and the final hour In: The Pirate Radio Hall of Fame , accessed May 22, 2017
23. ↑ Multi-platinum award
24. ↑ Official Charts Company / BPI: Top 40 Best Selling Albums 28 July 1956 - 14 June 2009 (PDF; 99 kB, accessed on November 9, 2018)
25. ^ The RS 500 Greatest Albums of All Time . In: Rolling Stone , November 2003.
26. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of the Abbey Road Years . ISBN 0-600-61207-4 , p. 108.
27. ^ Richie Unterberger: The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film. ISBN 0-87930-892-3 , p. 169.
28. ↑ Differences in the mixes of Beatles songs
29. ^ Cover shoot for Sgt Pepper
30. ↑ BBC: Jann Haworth: The forgotten creator of the Sgt. Pepper cover
31. ↑ The Swinging Sixties' Grooviest Art Dealer: In London, Remembering Robert Fraser
32. ↑ Sgt. Pepper Cover Character Search ( Memento of the original from August 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
33. ↑ ^{a b} The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 248.
34. ^ The Beatles: The Beatles Anthology . ISBN 3-550-07132-9 , p. 252.
35. ↑ SLC PEPPER
36. ^ Mark Lewisohn: The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions . Hamlyn, London 1988.
37. ↑ Barry Miles: Many Years from Now. Reinbek near Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1999. P. 393 f.
38. ^ Walter Everett: The Beatles as Musicians: Revolver Through the Anthology. Oxford University Press, New York / Oxford 1999, ISBN 978-0195129410 , p. 122. ( online )
39. ↑ Discovery of an Indian musician after 50 years
40. ↑ Download the Beatles songs
41. ↑ Streaming the Beatles songs
42. ↑ Information about the Anniversary Edition
43. ↑ Interview with Giles Martin about the creation of the Anniversary Edition
44. ↑ 1967 Japanese version: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Red vinyl
45. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Yellow Vinyl
46. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Red Vinyl
47. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Blue Vinyl
48. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-White Vinyl
49. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Violet Vinyl
50. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Green Vinyl
51. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Orange Vinyl
52. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club France-Clear Vinyl
53. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Canada- Marbled Vinyl
54. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Spain-Yellow Vinyl
55. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club USA-Picture Disc
56. ↑ Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club UK-Picture Disc
57. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Netherlands - Yellow vinyl
58. ↑ Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Japan - Red Vinyl
59. ↑ allmusic.com: Big Daddy: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
60. ^ Secondhand Orchestra