Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth
studio album by the English
rock band
the Beatles. Released on 1 June 1967, it was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending 27 weeks at the top of the albums chart in the United Kingdom and 15 weeks at number one in the United States.
Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music" and the
New Statesman praised its elevation of
pop to the level of fine art. It won four
Grammy Awards in 1968, including
Album of the Year, the first rock
LP to receive this honour.