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A defining album in the history of Rock music was Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, released by The Beatles in 1967. In fact, the album was recently ranked #1 on Rolling Stone magazine’s “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.� According to the editors of Rolling Stone, one of the main reasons that the album was so influential, and thus deserving of number one of all time, was that it was innovative in a number of ways. It brought new recording techniques to the forefront of popularity, it changed the way all future album covers were designed, and most importantly, it helped to transform rock music from something which people danced to, to music which was perceived publicly as a more serious art form. This more serious music appealed to listeners with a new musical attitude. This attitude is what Professor John Covach calls, the “hippie aesthetic.� The Beatle’s transformation from a mere pop band, albeit a very talented one, to a band with such a......

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