1967: The Beatles Release ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’
The Beatles expanded their song palette and their psychedelic appetite with this album, which was familiar, but truly wild in concept and design. With this album, the group went from endearing entertainers to revolutionary artists. Three days after the album’s release, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr went to London and caught Jimi Hendrix playing at a small theater. They were beyond astonished when Hendrix opened his set with his own version of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s.’
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Paul McCartney recalled the event, saying “To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it because normally it might take a day for rehearsal, and then you might wonder whether you’d put it in, but he just opened with it.”