“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is the eighth studio album from pioneering British rock band The Beatles released on May 26, 1967. Regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, “Sgt. Pepper” became the precursor to concept albums, prog rock, and the “album era” at large. The artwork was designed by pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth and depicts the Beatles in a tableau alongside a range of celebrities and historical figures. Released on the brink of “the Summer of Love,” “Sgt. Pepper” reflects the Beatles’ musical evolution into the realm of psychedelia, counterculture, and other prominent areas of interest for contemporary youth of the time. Critically regarded as the album that elevated rock music to a respected medium for legitimate art, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” perfectly married the cultural divide between popular music and high art. The album experiments with a variety of styles and sounds including influences from vaudeville, circus, avant-garde, Indian, and Western classical music. In 1968 the album won four Grammy awards including Album of the Year. It spent 27 weeks at the top of U.S. album charts, sold 32 million copies worldwide, and has since gone on to become the best-selling U.K. studio album in history. Experience the album that changed pop culture forever with songs like “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” “A Day in the Life,” and “With a Little Help from My Friends” by streaming the 50th anniversary deluxe edition now on Spotify!