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‘A Day in the Life’ was the first song the Beatles recorded for what was originally going to be a concept album about the band’s childhood in Liverpool. This concept, of course, eventually morphed into a pseudo band via an Edwardian psychedelic marching outfit.

From the album artwork to the schizophrenic nature of the record, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band encapsulated the collage-like fever of the summer of love. All the bands by the late 1960s were simply trying to survive and understand what was going on around them at the time. They were supposedly caught up amidst a counter-cultural revolution, one that was based on free love, protest against authority, and a liberation from the conventionality of the previously stifled and stuffy generation.

In 1965, The Beatles had redefined what it meant to be a rock ‘n’ roll band. They stopped touring and began exploring in the recording studio. The Fab Four were, believe it or not, more of the intellectual type of group. Whereas the Rolling Stones exhibited sex as an idea, the Beatles proposed a philosophical conversation surrounding love as a life-changing concept.

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