Beatles Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Limited Edition Sealed Picture LP

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Sealed never opened in record picture frame. GOOD LUCK BIDDING ;^ )>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles. Released in June 1967, the album included songs such as "With a Little Help from My Friends", "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", and "A Day in the Life". Continuing their artistic maturation on Revolver (1966), Sgt. Pepper further departed from the conventional pop rock idiom of the time and incorporated balladry, psychedelic, music hall, and symphonic influences.During the Sgt. Pepper sessions, the group improved upon the quality of their music's production while exploring experimental recording techniques. Producer George Martin's innovative approach included the use of an orchestra. Widely acclaimed and imitated, the album cover design by English pop artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth was inspired by a sketch by Paul McCartney that depicted the band posing in front of a collage of some of their favourite celebrities.Sgt. Pepper was a worldwide critical and commercial success, spending a total of 27 weeks at the top of the UK Album Chart and 15 weeks at number one on the US Billboard 200. A seminal work in the emerging psychedelic rock style, the album was critically acclaimed upon release and won four Grammy Awards in 1968. It is considered the most influential and most famous rock album of all time, and with an estimated 32 million copies sold, it is one of the world's best selling albums. Sgt. Pepper has been named the greatest album of all time by both All Time Top 1000 Albums and Rolling Stone. Sgt. Pepper won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, the first rock album to do so, and Best Contemporary Album in 1968. Sgt. Pepper is one of the world's best selling albums,YearWinnerAward1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandAlbum of the Year1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandBest Album Cover, Graphic Arts1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandBest Engineered Recording, Non-Classical1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandContemporary AlbumGrammy Award nominationsYearNomineeAward1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandGroup Vocal Performance1968Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandContemporary Vocal Group1968"A Day in the Life"Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)Side one1."Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" McCartney2:022."With a Little Help from My Friends" Starr2:443."Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" Lennon3:284."Getting Better" McCartney2:485."Fixing a Hole" McCartney2:366."She's Leaving Home" McCartney with Lennon3:357."Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" Lennon2:37Side two1."Within You Without You" (George Harrison)Harrison5:042."When I'm Sixty-Four" McCartney2:373."Lovely Rita" McCartney2:424."Good Morning Good Morning" Lennon2:415."Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" Lennon, McCartney and Harrison1:196."A Day in the Life" Lennon and McCartney5:39Track list information according to Graham Calkin, Mark Lewisohn and Ian MacDonald.According to Mark Lewisohn and Alan W. PollackThe BeatlesJohn Lennon – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; piano and Hammond organ; harmonica, tape loops, sound effects and comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine and maracasPaul McCartney – lead, harmony and background vocals; lead and bass guitars; piano, Lowrey and Hammond organs; handclaps; vocalizations, tape loops, sound effects and comb and tissue paperGeorge Harrison – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; sitar; lead, harmony and background vocals; tamboura; harmonica and kazoo; handclaps and maracasRingo Starr – drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, handclaps and tubular bells; lead vocals; harmonica; final piano E chordAdditional musicians and productionNeil Aspinall – tamboura and harmonicaGeoff Emerick – recording and mixing engineer; tape loops and sound effectsMal Evans – counting, alarm clock and final piano E chordMatthew Deyell – tambourineGeorge Martin – producer and mixer; tape loops and sound effects; harpsichord (on "Fixing a Hole"), harmonium, Lowrey organ and glockenspiel (on "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"), Hammond organ (on "With a Little Help from My Friends"), and piano (on "Getting Better" and the solo in "Lovely Rita"); final harmonium chord.Session musicians – four French horns (on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"), (Neil Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall),[82] arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; string section and harp (on "She's Leaving Home"), arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin; harmonium, tabla, sitar, dilruba, eight violins and four cellos (on "Within You, Without You"), arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin; clarinet trio (on "When I'm Sixty Four"), as arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; saxophone sextet (on "Good Morning, Good Morning"), arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon; and forty-piece orchestra (strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion) (on "A Day in the Life"), arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney and conducted by Martin and McCartney