In the spring of 1967, The Beatles released their eighth album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, unofficially kicking off what would later be known as the “Summer of Love.” The hippie movement, fueled by psychedelics and the slogan, “Make love, not war,” became the dominant youth movement in the Western world.

The Beatles, now wearing mustaches and bright clothing, spent 400 hours in the studio crafting an album that was their most musically and thematically complex. Because they didn’t have to worry about reproducing it for the stage, it incorporated a wide variety of influences including vaudeville, music hall, avant-garde orchestrations, Western classical, and Indian music.

Jimi Hendrix covered ‘Sgt. Pepper’ a few days after its release

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