Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Album, the Beatles, and the World in 1967

As an attractively-designed coffee table book with the remit of a basic overview, the expectations are perhaps not on the same level as Southall’s well-researched The Rise & Fall of EMI Records, but the immediate impression this book leaves is that there was no budget for an editor nor a proofre......more

When I see a book about one album, I expect the book to really be dedicated to that album, providing a lot of behind-the-scenes info that wasn’t common knowledge. You get some of that here, but it amounts to about a quarter of the book. The rest of the book is about the Beatles in general, from begi......more

The B-side is kind of weak. The A-side, about how the album was made, is excellent, but the B-side, about history, has more of a puff-piece feel, with only a sentence or two about each topic. It's heavily focused on the music industry, with The Rolling Stones, The Monkees, The Jimi Hendrix Experienc......more

I am not sure there is a lot of new information here that I haven’t already learned in other books. The photographs are interesting, depicting what was going on in the world in ‘67 when Sgt. Pepper became such a part of the culture. It just not an easy read organization wise. In an attempt to make t......more