“I made a suggestion. I said, ‘We need to get away from ourselves – how about if we just become sort of an alter ego band?’ ” From that suggestion by Paul McCartney, an iconic album was born.
Join the discussion with Glen Ellyn Public Library as we present "A Celebration of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band."
In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album #1 in their list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, while Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones recently described it as "rubbish." With the use of audio and visual content, discuss Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band's initial concept, the music, the landmark album cover and the overwhelming world-wide reaction to its release in 1967*.
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/12
Glen Ellyn Public Library
400 Duane St., Glen Ellyn, IL 60137