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Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a musical fragmentation grenade, exploding with a force that is still being felt. It grabbed the world of pop music by the scruff of the neck, shook it hard, and left it to wander off, dizzy but wagging its tail. As well as changing the way pop music was viewed, it changed the entire nature of the recording game — for keeps. Nothing even remotely like Pepper had been heard before. It came at a time when people were thirsty for something new, but still its newness caught them by surprise. It certainly caught me on the hop! [...] With Sgt. Pepper The Beatles held up a mirror to the world. And in this looking glass the world saw a brilliant reflection of its kaleidoscopic 1967 self. It saw not the shambolic and often absurd cavortings of the hippie movement, but its perfect image — an elegant ideal; not the sordid gutterland of drug addiction, but the intriguing possibility of creative substance abuse.

—George Martin, 2006

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was a musical fragmentation grenade, exploding with a force that is still being felt. It grabbed the world of pop music by the scruff of the neck, shook it hard, and left it to wander off, dizzy but wagging its tail. As well as changing the way pop music was viewed, it changed the entire nature of the recording game — for keeps. Nothing even remotely like Pepper had been heard before. It came at a time when people were thirsty for something new, but still its newness caught them by surprise. It certainly caught me on the hop! [...] With Sgt. Pepper The Beatles held up a mirror to the world. And in this looking glass the world saw a brilliant reflection of its kaleidoscopic 1967 self. It saw not the shambolic and often absurd cavortings of the hippie movement, but its perfect image — an elegant ideal; not the sordid gutterland of drug addiction, but the intriguing possibility of creative substance abuse.

—George Martin, 2006

Magical Mystery Tour
Studio album by The Beatles
Released 27 November 1967 (US)
Recorded 24 November 1966 – 7 November 1967, Abbey Road Studios and Olympic Studios, London
Genre Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Pop
Length 36:49
Label Capitol
Producer George Martin
The Beatles chronology
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
(1967)
Magical Mystery Tour
(1967)
The Beatles
(1968)
Singles from Magical Mystery Tour
  1. "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever"
    Released: 13 February 1967 (US)
  2. "All You Need Is Love"/"Baby, You're a Rich Man"
    Released: 17 July 1967 (US)
  3. "Hello, Goodbye"/"I Am the Walrus"
    Released: 24 November 1967 (US)
Alternate cover
1971 German MMT LP with every track in true stereo
Magical Mystery Tour
EP (Double EP) by The Beatles
Released 8 December 1967 (UK)
Recorded 25 April – 7 November 1967, Abbey Road Studios and Olympic Studios, London
Length 19:08
Label Parlophone
Producer George Martin
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