Why We’re Still Listening to the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’

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🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Our pop music critics are not fans of record anniversaries, but 50 years after the creation of “Sgt. Pepper,” there are still lessons to be learned from the album.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times Popcast, your entry-level psychedelia of music news and
0:07.3	criticism. I'm your host John Caramonica. It was 20 years ago today,
0:15.0	and never to play.
0:22.0	It was 20 years ago today. As Zodje pepper taught the bag to play.
0:25.0	They'd been going in the night to style.
0:27.0	But they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
0:30.0	So may I introduce to you,
0:32.0	the active room for all you gee. So may I introduce to you, and you remember all his years
0:35.0	Sergeant Pepper's Lonely House
0:38.0	Happy.
0:40.0	You know who that is.
0:42.0	It's a little band called The Beatles at Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.
0:46.0	That is the opening track from the album, the 1967 album of the same name,
0:50.0	celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, and I'm here with a man who has been
0:56.1	there for all 50 of those years. I've been listening to this thing for 50
1:00.2	all 50 those years that's John Frelis, chief pop music of the New York Times.
1:04.4	Hi there.
1:05.6	John, anniversaries are...
1:07.7	I hate anniversaries. They're bunk. They're bunk. They're an excuse to mostly trod out familiar ideas, you know, to...
1:15.7	And familiar product.
1:17.2	Familiar product, received wisdom galore.
1:19.8	So I've tended to avoid them.
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