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1.6.07
It was twenty years ago today...

...that it was another twenty years ago today, that Paul McCartney sang that it was twenty years ago today. Yes, the all-time second best-selling album in the UK, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released forty years ago today. As well as the CD version which I own, we have a vinyl version at my Mum's which still has the bonus sheet of cardboard cut-outs in the sleeve. I wonder how much it's worth?

BBC 6 Music is celebrating the fortieth anniversary all day today.

A whole load of artists have covered the album's tracks, on Radio 2 tomorrow at 16:30.

You can even attend an academic conference about the album later this month.

Trivia: The album includes 'When I'm Sixty-Four' sung by Paul McCartney, who currently is 64. My Mum, who was born on McCartney's first birthday, will be 64 on the 18th of this month.

More trivia: The run-out groove at the end of the album includes a whistle which is only audible to dogs.

Opinion: The fantastic film 'Prick Up Your Ears', about Joe Orton, ends with the orchestral cacophony from 'A Day In The Life' from Sgt. Pepper's, in what Chig believes to be one of the best uses of pop music in a film ever, ever, ever.

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