Surveying the Summer of Love that birthed Sgt. Pepper, there were certainly albums of equal (or greater) challenge to be found in Cream’s Disraeli Gears, Love’s Forever Changes, Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow, the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Are You Experienced, the Velvet Underground & Nico’s eponymous debut and Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding. In comparison, the … Continue reading Essential New Music: The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary Edition”