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Fixing A Hole: 'Sgt. Pepper' Remixed And Reissued For 50th Anniversary

One of the most important records in pop history is getting an appropriately comprehensive reissue.
The Beatles celebrate the completion of <em>Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band</em> at a press conference held at the west London home of their manager Brian Epstein on May 19, 1967.

In the annals of pop music history, the release of ' on June 1, 1967 operated as a fulcrum upon which the scales of rock 'n' roll were tipped forevermore towards ambitious refraction, sonic metaphor and unashamed exploration of the far-afield spaces in our minds. Its 50th birthday, then, is something

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