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Considered by many fans and critics alike to be the first "concept album," Sgt. Pepper helped raise rock and roll above its pop background. The record contained numerous hits, including "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "With a Little Help From My Friends" and "A Day In The Life...
Martin said the record was revolutionary because it was intended to be listened to as a cohesive album and not just a collection of songs...
...Beatles Anthology is billed as the Beatles' own "permanent written record." Essentially, it is an attempt by the surviving Beatles--Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr--and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono to write the story of the band before somebody else writes it for them...
...Neiman Marcus department store in Beverly Hills, offers quieter pleasures: a delicate portrait of people inflicting subtle pain on others and themselves, and an appeal to the intelligent heart. Sitting in a restaurant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, Martin muses that if you were to tape-record someone reading his book in an otherwise silent room, then play back the tape, you'd hear "maybe a little sniffle...
...could trust her to provide you with bread and beef through the winter" got the committee laughing. And the essay's touching conclusion - "she taught me how to improve from a mistake and still like myself" - sent them straight for the admit stamp. Otherwise, the student's B record would not have...