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...once trampled eight of its own rushing to get the last installment of The Old Curiosity Shop off the boat from England. The critics took years, however, to catch up with the mobs in enthusiasm and to discover what lay beneath Dickens' charismatic storytelling. The remarkable thing about Sgt. Pepper is that it received both popular and critical acclaim instantly. So great today is the pressure to appreciate that critics rushed to hail the album as "entertainment verging on art" or as "art," period...
...Sgt. Pepper, however, is a legitimate hunting ground for Beatleologists, and if Tolstoy was right in saying that the key to art is the "wee bit," never was there a more artistic pop album. It is loaded with every significant little touch that the Beatles could fit into three months of recording. Under the same pressure of inspiration that throws other pop groups into violent convulsions, the Beatles remain gentle, ironic, subtle, innocent and, above...
...clincher in the argument for Sgt. Pepper's artistic standing is the fact that the album is not just a collection of singles, but a whole. It is structured much like a musical comedy, and it is a study of all the lonely people and where they have all come from...
Also, the song introduces the album's theme. "Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely," it repeats, and so is nearly everyone else in the Beatle cosmos...
Crazy Stop. Except for a few spiritual gurus and swamis, the hippie movement is leaderless and loose. The Beatles-forerunners of psychedelic sound and once again at the forefront with their latest album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band-are the major tastemakers in hippiedom. (Beatle Paul McCartney admits to taking acid trips.) Yet another guru, Indian Sitar Virtuoso Ravi Shankar, who now has a burgeoning music school in Los Angeles, is dead set against drug use as an enhancement to music. He recently lectured the Monterey Pop Festival audience, chiding them for being stoned while listening...