<P> Sgt . Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles . Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States , it was an immediate commercial and critical success , spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US . On release , the album was lauded by the vast majority of critics for its innovations in music production , songwriting and graphic design , for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and legitimate art , and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture . It won four Grammy Awards in 1968 , including Album of the Year , the first rock LP to receive this honour . </P>
<P> Sgt . Pepper 's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band the Beatles . Released on 26 May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2 June 1967 in the United States , it was an immediate commercial and critical success , spending 27 weeks at the top of the UK albums chart and 15 weeks at number one in the US . On release , the album was lauded by the vast majority of critics for its innovations in music production , songwriting and graphic design , for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and legitimate art , and for providing a musical representation of its generation and the contemporary counterculture . It won four Grammy Awards in 1968 , including Album of the Year , the first rock LP to receive this honour . </P>
when was sgt pepper released in the uk
when was sgt pepper released in the uk
26 May 1967
26 May 1967