40th anniversary

It's been four decades since the release of the Beatles' monumental and influential Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Here in 2007, 40 years later, it might not be obvious to some how important this album was (and is), and how much impact it had on the music and social scene of the 1960s and the Summer Of Love.

Though it's not my favourite Beatles LP, I still think this is one heck of a record. I wrote about it in my album spotlight last year. As I said then, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is so much a statement of its time, yet it still reverberates through the world of music four decades after its debut."