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The return of 'Sgt. Pepper,' Bob Dylan's gospel-years trove, Metallica's deluxe 'Master of Puppets' and more.
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Subscribe NowThe return of 'Sgt. Pepper,' Bob Dylan's gospel-years trove, Metallica's deluxe 'Master of Puppets' and more.
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John Lennon was the 'North Star' for 'Rolling Stone' since the magazine's earliest days, and his interviews made news around the world.
In 1967, the Beatles were at a crossroads — they quit touring, experimented with drugs and set out to change rock & roll forever.
How Guinness heir Tara Browne's untimely death inspired the album's epic final track.
An expanded new edition helps us rediscover the band's 1967 masterwork.
"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