The Beatles album George Harrison called “boring”
For more than 50 years, The Beatles’ album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band has been regarded as the pinnacle of popular music, a benchmark for all other albums to aspire to. It encapsulated the previous five decades of culture, reframing it through a vibrant, carnival-like perspective, and ultimately produced what many consider the greatest album of all time.…so said the critics, so said the writers, so said the public, and so it became. But as the tides of popular culture keep turning, Sgt. Pepper continues to fall out of favour with some. Not out of the canon, per se, but it has been steadily tumbling from its place as the undisputed top of the musical mountain. It is becoming increasingly rare to find those who might consider it the greatest album of all time, or even the greatest Beatles album, or occasionally even the greatest album of 1967, with the Velvet Underground, Love, and even The Beatles themselves all offering stiff and ever-stiffening competition.
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