The Beatles : Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Genre: Pop/Rock	Dates: 1966

Critic Langdon Winner: "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week Sergeant Pepper's was released." An audacious claim, particularly since the Beatles made (in my humble estimation) at least five better full-length records; taken out of their context, these songs are a pretty light lot. In terms of significance in the course of American music, however, it's hard to argue its merits, since, with Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited, it broke the history of rock in two by positing the music as art. Some smart people think that it also ended rock's innocence, and they're not far wrong, but the glories of the record's engineering and integrated compositions (regardless of their relative weightlessness) opened doors no one knew were there. Album release as cultural event—another first.

Playlist:

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

Donated by Dr. Christian Reed