Sgt. Pepper released
June 1, 1967
The Beatles released an album that was less a collection of singles than a concept, a record you played whole from a sunlit sleeve full of cardboard cut-outs. It was pop music reaching for high art. Within weeks it was playing in every dormitory and commune on both sides of the Atlantic. The Summer of Love had its soundtrack.
In context
Also in 1967 (5 other events on record)
- Six-Day War · Middle East · War
- Biafran War begins · Africa · War
- First heart transplant · Africa · Science
- Che Guevara killed in Bolivia · South America · Politics
- Detroit rebellion · North America · Politics
Before and after in Europe
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.