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“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a song credited to Lennon/McCartney, and first recorded and released in 1967, on the The Beatles’ album of the same name. The song appears twice on the album: as the opening track (segueing into “With A Little Help From My Friends”), and as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”, the penultimate track (segueing into “A Day In The Life”). As the title track, the lyrics introduce the fictional band that performs in the album.

Authorship and recording

In November 1966, on the flight back to England after a holiday, McCartney conceived an idea in which an entire album would be role-played, with each of The Beatles assuming an alter-ego in the “Lonely Hearts Club Band”, which would then perform a concert in front of an audience. The inspiration is said to have come when roadie Mal Evans innocently asked McCartney what the letters “S” and “P” stood for on the pots on their in-flight meal trays, and McCartney explained it was for salt and pepper. This then led to the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band concept, as well as the song. According to producer George Martin, the song was recorded before the album, but he also said that it started the idea of a concept album based around the main Sgt. Pepper character.

The group’s road manager Neil Aspinall suggested the idea of Sergeant Pepper being the compère, as well as the reprise at the end of the album.
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  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
    The Beatles Play
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  • Love
    The Beatles Play
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  • 1967-1970 (disc 1)
    The Beatles Play
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  • Golden Beatles
    The Beatles Play
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  • zoso8899

    this is not the Beatles :(

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  • WWOMENN

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  • StereoGirl95

    I love the way it links to the next song!

    last month

  • KISSastrophe

    I wanna meet Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band...

    last month

  • 2morrowww

    Oh God I feel like puking rainbows just from the intro

    March 2012

  • oldiesfanjohn

    what would you think if I sang out of tune...the rest is history!

    January 2012

  • ravenclaw94

    Awesome.

    January 2012

  • oldiesfanjohn

    <3<3<3 Ringo aka Billy Shears

    December 2011

  • Junior_Lins

    hino

    November 2011

  • CelioGouveia

    Mítica !

    October 2011

  • crawlpalmetto

    The first time I heard this album I was captivated from start to finish. Nothing I'd heard before had had that effect on me.

    October 2011

  • BarneyJWY

    This song is too short

    September 2011

  • TheDarkSide73

    I get a little bit high with my friends...

    September 2011

  • Suuuuuuuuu

    we're sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band, we hope you will enjoy the show!

    September 2011

  • FreeOrDead

    yeah yeaaaah

    June 2011

  • Knifymoloko

    " I always feel a bit left out when the crowd laughs. What are they laughing at? " The circle-jerk commencing in the foreground.

    June 2011

  • super-chicken

    "The first Neutral Milk Hotel Song"? lol, omg.

    May 2011

  • Nakkinak

    The first Neutral Milk Hotel Song

    May 2011

  • El_Salvador7

    I always feel a bit left out when the crowd laughs. What are they laughing at?

    April 2011

  • ilia_shnurok

    Матвей, поддерживаю :)

    March 2011
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