Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today

Contents

• Contents: Preface
• 'Their production will be second to none': an introduction to Sgt. Pepper, Olivier Julien
• 'Tangerine trees and marmalade skies': cultural agendas or optimistic escapism?, Sheila Whiteley
• Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of Lennon and McCartney, Terence O'Grady
• Sgt. Pepper's quest for extended form, Thomas MacFarlane
• The sound design of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Michael Hannan
• The Beatles and Indian music, David Reck
• The Beatles' psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper, Naphtali Wagner
• Cover story: magic, myth and music, Ian Inglis
• Within and without: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and psychedelic insight, Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc
• The whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of interference, John Kimsey
• The act you've known for all these years: a re-encounter with Sgt. Pepper, Allan Moore
• 'A lucky man who made the grade': Sgt. Pepper and the rise of a phonographic tradition in 20th century popular music, Olivier Julien
• References
• Index of names
• Index of songs, albums, films and musical works.