This is a recording packed with loads of good old fashioned Beatle lore.  Paul-is-dead-lore, The Beatles are the next Mozarts lore, The Beach Boys scared the Beatles back into the studios lore (this is true...just ask Sir Paul McCartney, who is of course alive and well, thank you very much, and on his gazillionteenth tour with Lady Heather and baby Bea in tow)...and in the Days of Vinyl it took turns being called "the greatest" along with "Abbey Road".  Being knee-high to a cicadid when the Beatles were at their height, but nonetheless a huge fan, I knew them from AM radio, not albums.  So I never knew which songs were on which lps until high school, when our team-tought humanities instructors (see my "So You'd Like to be a Pseudo-Expert in Western Culture" list) gave their infamous "Sgt. Pepper" Lecture!  Aha, thinks I, This is An Important Record!