Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles (pictured). Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success. After the group retired from touring, Paul McCartney had an idea for a song involving an Edwardian era military band, and this developed into a plan to release an entire album as a performance by the fictional Sgt. Pepper band. Knowing they would not have to perform the tracks live, the Beatles adopted an experimental approach to composition, writing songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" and "A Day in the Life". The producer George Martin's innovative recording of the album included the liberal application of signal processing. The cover, depicting the band in front of a collage of celebrities and historical figures, was designed by the English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth. One of the best-selling albums of all time, Sgt. Pepper is regarded as an important work of British psychedelia and an early concept album. One music scholar has described it as "the most important and influential rock and roll album ever recorded".
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1734:
A black slave known as Marie-Joseph Angélique, after having been convicted of setting the fire that destroyed much of Montreal, was tortured and then hanged in New France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Joseph_Ang%C3%A9lique
1864:
New Zealand Wars: British victory in the Battle of Te Ranga brought the Tauranga Campaign to an end. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauranga_Campaign
1919:
Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttled the German High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow to prevent the ships from being seized and divided amongst the Allied Powers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling_of_the_German_fleet_in_Scapa_Flow
1964:
Three civil rights workers were lynched by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi, US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers%27_murders
2004:
SpaceShipOne completed the first privately funded human spaceflight. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShipOne
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angst: 1. A feeling of acute but vague anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression, especially philosophical anxiety. 2. More commonly, painful sadness or emotional turmoil, as teen angst. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angst
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams. by Carl Jung, quoting --Homer https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Homer