Media Watch June 6, 2007
Wednesday, June 06, 2007
By Richard Anderson
Nothing better
It was 20 years ago (well, 40, actually) today (er, last Friday, in fact) Sgt. Pepper taught his band to play and, really, they’ve been in style ever since. On June 1, the world celebrated the 40th anniversary of the release of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” considered by some to be The Beatles’ best album, if not the greatest rock album of all time. Yeah, yeah (yeah) – you can argue those claims ’til you’re bluer in the face than a Blue Meanie, but a few facts remain.
According to Gracenote, an online music database, The Beatles is the most accessed artist in its sizeable computer banks, and “Sgt. Pepper’s” is the most accessed Beatles album. Not only that, but Gracenote reports that in just the last month the album outranked Christina Aguilera’s “Stripped,” Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape,” The Killers’ “Hot Fuss,” Coldplay’s “X&Y” and Eminem’s “The Marshal Mathers LP.”
While numbers don’t lie, they also don’t always tell the whole story, and other metrics – range of influence, staying power, kick-assed-ness – are difficult to measure precisely. But put the album on. Give it a listen. No one had heard anything like that before June 1, 1967. And we still haven’t heard anything else like it since.
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