The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ Is Being Remixed For Spatial Audio, Again
The current spatial-audio version of the classic 1967 album on Apple Music will soon be replaced, producer Giles Martin tells Rolling Stone
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How Guinness heir Tara Browne's untimely death inspired the album's epic final track.
"It was about his boring life at the time," Paul McCartney later said of song that summed up John Lennon's domestic ennui.
How parking-meter antagonism, a very high Byrd and a certain psychedelic group on the rise played into the Paul McCartney classic.
McCartney wrote "tongue-in-cheek" song on his father's piano at age 16.
Inspired by Ravi Shankar and fed up with being "fab," the band's youngest member composed a hypnotic ode to higher consciousness
"Everything in the song is from that poster," John Lennon said of 1843 ad he picked up in a Kent antique shop.
Melanie Coe looks back on her teenage days as an unlikely Lennon/McCartney muse
Paul McCartney brought a strange guest to the studio in February 1967.
Lennon swallowed the wrong pill the night he was supposed to record backing harmonies for the song. Weirdness – and male bonding – ensued.