Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles : it was forty years ago today /
The first concept album in the history of popular music, the soundtrack of the Summer of Love or 'Hippy Symphony No. 1': Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is first and foremost the album that gave rise to 'hopes of progress in pop music' (The Times, 29 May 1967). Sgt. Pe...
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Aldershot, Hampshire, England ; Burlington, VT :
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| Series: | Ashgate popular and folk music series.
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Table of Contents:
- Tangerine trees and marmalade skies: cultural agendas or optimistic escapism? / Sheila Whiteley
- Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of Lennon and McCartney / Terence O'Grady
- Sgt. Pepper's quest for extended form / Thomas MacFarlane
- The sound design of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Michael Hannan
- The Beatles and Indian music / David Reck
- The Beatles' psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper / Naphtali Wagner
- Cover story: magic, myth and music / Ian Inglis
- Within and without: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and psychedelic insight / Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc
- The whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference / John Kimsey
- The act you've known for all these years: a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper / Allan Moore
- A lucky man who made the grade': Sgt. Pepper and the rise of a phonographic tradition in twentieth-century popular music / Olivier Julien.
