It was 40 years ago today.....

anyone who loves the beatles, can't imagine the excitement that record caused. artists, kids in every community, dj's, the music press and news press,parents, teachers, the film community.....lord, everyone was stunned. the band, the album and its place in history....as well as the original summer of love....its impossible to convey just how far reaching its impact on everyone around the world was. enjoy it my friend...and arrive without traveling.

AMEN....

i envy that you got to experience Sgt Pepper's in "real time." It is my favorite, but it only became so many years after its release.

What pressing will you be listening to/which is your favorite?

Wow! What great memories! I remember my brothers and I listening to Sgt. Pepper all the time that summer; and just being thrilled with what appeared to be (and, actually, was) such creative, exciting, strange, and different music (I think *some* of the appeal is how varied the music is, and *yet* how it "held together" so well). I have memories of how my parents even liked it!! That seemed new and strange to me too - and, truthfully, it was probably primarily "When I'm 64" and "Rita" that they really noticed a lot. Anyway, I was 19, and my brothers were 16 and 14. I'd had my mind blown out in '64 (but not in a car), of course, hearing the first record and seeing them on Ed Sullivan. Even so, this was something entirely new and mysterious.

Thanks for starting this thread.