Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released in June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 22 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.Regarded as an early concept album, Sgt. Pepper continued the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases while advancing the use of extended form in popular music. It is often described as one of the first art rock albums, aiding the development of progressive rock. An important work of British psychedelia, the multigenre album incorporates diverse stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, Western and Indian classical music. Following the Beatles' August 1966 retirement from touring and the ensuing three-month break from Abbey Road Studios, they endeavored to improve upon the production quality of their prior releases. The group adopted an experimental approach to composition and the producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album's tracks, such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life", included the liberal application of signal processing and the use of a forty-piece orchestra. The album cover was designed by the English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth from a sketch by Paul McCartney that depicted the band posing in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures.In 2003 the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry, preserving the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2005 Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. As of 2014 it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The music scholar David Scott Kastan described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".. }
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- Sgt._Pepper's_Lonely_Hearts_Club_Band abstract "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released in June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 22 weeks at the top of the UK Albums Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. It won four Grammy Awards in 1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour.Regarded as an early concept album, Sgt. Pepper continued the artistic maturation seen on the Beatles' preceding releases while advancing the use of extended form in popular music. It is often described as one of the first art rock albums, aiding the development of progressive rock. An important work of British psychedelia, the multigenre album incorporates diverse stylistic influences, including vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, Western and Indian classical music. Following the Beatles' August 1966 retirement from touring and the ensuing three-month break from Abbey Road Studios, they endeavored to improve upon the production quality of their prior releases. The group adopted an experimental approach to composition and the producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album's tracks, such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life", included the liberal application of signal processing and the use of a forty-piece orchestra. The album cover was designed by the English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth from a sketch by Paul McCartney that depicted the band posing in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures.In 2003 the Library of Congress placed Sgt. Pepper in the National Recording Registry, preserving the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2005 Rolling Stone magazine ranked it number one in its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. As of 2014 it has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling albums of all time. The music scholar David Scott Kastan described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".".