Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band & Basically a Paul's idea

The Beatles - 1967

The Beatles were on their first break since 1963, they could separated in a moment of exhaustion. On that time the bands did not have such a thing as a break, besides they decided to did no concerts anymore, so lets think this, if you were on 1966 would you believe it was the end of The Beatles?
George traveled to India for his spiritual way, Paul traveled to San Francisco and Africa, Ringo spend his time partying hard and the Lennon had a breakdown with this temporary separation, it was hard for Lennon as you can see.

But for our sake! All of them found some kind of inspiration on that break. Paul was moved for the hippie movement of the time, George was writing amazing songs with Indian influence (it sound amazing by the way), Lennon met Yoko Ono and somehow she gave him the inspiration he needed to continue and Ringo...well He was and is amazing with the drums.

They return only as recording artists, no more concerts for the people.

"We were fed up with being the Beatles. We really hated that four little mop-top boys approach. We were not boys, we were men. It was all gone, all that boy stuff, all that screaming, we didn't want any more, plus, we'd now got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers.", that were the words of Paul McCartney when they returned to the music.

Paul said that the idea came suddenly on a plane, he thought that an alter ego of the Beatles might give to them the freedom they needed for their next album and so it happened. Sgt. Pepper lonely Hearts Club Band took out a deluxe edition a couple months ago for  it 50th anniversary and for the joy of all their fans the album reached the number one after a half-century of its release. 

With 13 songs worked in five months this album show to us all the influences that each of the Beatles bring to this revolutionary album, the Indian music of George, Paul with psychedelic melodies, the orchestra and the lyrics full of LSD from Lennon made this album ahead of its era. It is the most sold and acclaimed for the media the best album ever.

Random Fact! this was the first album that printed the songs lyrics on the back.

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