the beatles - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band [50th anniversary super deluxe edition]

The use of multi-tracking was also groundbreaking, as Martin helped blend Western music with Indian music, jazz with psychedelic rock and pop (throwing in some Victorian music hall for good measure), into a dizzying collage of voice and instrumentation. The idea that you would carry on recording until a record was finished (instead of hiring a studio for a few days) was a revolutionary concept and helped, said producer George Martin, to re-define “the studio as an instrument.” No wonder production costs at Abbey Road Studios reached a record-breaking £25,000. Pepper between November 1966 and April 1967.

Whereas The Beatles’ first album, Please Please Me, had been recorded in about 10 hours in a single day, an estimated 700 hours of work (according to producer Geoff Emerick) went into recording Sgt.

The production of the record also set new standards in expertise and innovation.

Pepper gave other musicians new ideas and new attitudes to the approach of music. By breaking traditional rules about what a “rock album” should be, Sgt. The Beatles had brought the values of the counterculture into the mainstream. Pepper, my life was never the same again,” said Fripp. Guitarist and producer Robert Fripp said he was inspired to make the groundbreaking prog rock album after listening to John Lennon and the rest of The Beatles on Radio Luxembourg. A year later, King Crimson’s In The Court Of The Crimson King paid direct homage. Other albums shaped by The Beatles came thick and fast, including 1968’s SF Sorrow by British rock group The Pretty Things.

The beatles - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band [50th anniversary super deluxe edition]