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Continuing my trip up Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time... ...OK - another change of format. I was going to transfer to single album write-ups at some point anyway, but this album has forced my hand somewhat earlier than expected on account of there just being so much to say about it - I suspect most people will have heard of it at some point in their lives. #24 : Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles (1967) For the Beatles, it was a decisive goodbye to screaming crowds, world tours, and assembly-line record making. “We were fed up with being Beatles,” Paul McCartney said decades later. “We were not boys, we were men … artists rather than performers.” Sgt. Pepper christened the Summer of Love with the lavish psychedelic daydream “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the jaunty Ringo Starr-sung communality anthem “With a Little Help From My Friends,” the album-closing multilayered masterwork, “A Day in the Life,” and the title track, which introd