The Act You've Known for All These Years: A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper and Friends (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of The Act You've Known for All These Years: A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper and Friends Sunday, August 23 2009.

• “It was forty years ago today” that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles was released, an LP which changed the face of popular culture and continues to top public and critical polls of the greatest albums ever made. The Act You’ve Known for All These Years reconstructs the life and times of Sgt. Pepper, the cultural backstory of the band and rock's turbulent early adulthood. Weaving the activities of the Beatles in with those of their contemporaries and rivals — notably Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys and Pink Floyd — heralded music critic Clinton Heylin reveals the inspirations and explodes the myths behind this talismanic, iconic album — and "the summer of love" itself. In addition, the book surveys what happened next, telling the history of the LP’s "afterlife" from 1967 to the present day. Featuring interviews both with those who were there at the time and those who followed in the Beatles’ wake, The Act You’ve Known for All These Years is the definitive book on the defining LP of the pop era.

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Act You've Known for All These Years: A Year in the Life of Sgt. Pepper and Friends Friday, July 17 2009.

• Between 28 August, 1964 and 28 May, 1966, the itineraries of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan - the trio of tunesmiths on whom so much of the future direction of Rock would hang - intersected just four times: in August '64 and '65 in Manhattan, when The Beatles were in that bustling borough on tour, and in May '65 and '66, when Dylan returned the favour by blitzing Britain with first an acoustic Martin, then a Fender-induced electrical storm.