01	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band						02:02
	02	With A Little Help From My Friends						02:44
	03	Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds						03:28
	04	Getting Better						02:47
	05	Fixing A Hole						02:36
	06	She's Leaving Home						03:35
	07	Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!						02:37
	08	Within You Without You						05:05
	09	When I'm Sixty-Four						02:37
	10	Lovely Rita						02:42
	11	Good Morning Good Morning						02:41
	12	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)						01:18
	13	A Day In The Life						05:33

Retournez avec nous en 1967, lorsque les fans des Fabs, qui avaient tenu bon malgré Rubber Sou/ et Revolver, allaient être récompensés par une fantaisie musicale. Sgt.Pepper... a passé quinze semaines au som­met du hit-parade, et était encore dans les cinq premiers lorsque Magical Mystery Tour s'est placé à la 1re place six mois plus tard.
En effet, il était d'avant-garde. Depuis les premières notes enthousiastes de McCartney, jusqu'au kaléidosco­pique Lucy in the sky with diamonds de Lennon, et à l'époustouflant A day in the life du duo, chaque chanson est un vrai bijou.
Malgré l'omission de Strawberry Fields forever - le single qui sert de passerelle entre Revolver et Sgt. Pepper l'album reflète tous les éléments de l'univers psychédé­lique :la philosophie orientale (Within you without you de Harrison) et les allusions à la drogue (si Lennon a nié les connotations de Lucy, McCartney, lui, les a reconnues pour Fixing a hole).
Les références au pop art de Sgt. Pepper... sont évi­dentes sur la célèbre couverture. Peter Blake, le graphiste, l'a conçue comme une boîte cadeau, mais a finalement accepté que l'on y glisse des découpages en carton.
L'impact de l'album a été sans précédent. Kenneth Tynan, critique du Times, l'a décrit comme « un moment décisif de l'histoire de la civilisation occidentale ». Cette hyperbole n'est plus d'actualité, mais il reste une musique pop parfaite dont l'ambition et la mélodie tournoient ensemble à jamais.

Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
With Revolver, the Beatles made the Great Leap Forward, reaching a previously unheard-of level of sophistication and fearless experimentation. Sgt. Pepper, in many ways, refines that breakthrough, as the Beatles consciously synthesized such disparate influences as psychedelia, art-song, classical music, rock & roll, and music hall, often in the course of one song. Not once does the diversity seem forced - the genius of the record is how the vaudevillian "When I'm 64" seems like a logical extension of "Within You Without You" and how it provides a gateway to the chiming guitars of "Lovely Rita." There's no discounting the individual contributions of each member or their producer, George Martin, but the preponderance of whimsy and self-conscious art gives the impression that Paul McCartney is the leader of the Lonely Hearts Club Band. He dominates the album in terms of compositions, setting the tone for the album with his unabashed melodicism and deviously clever arrangements. In comparison, Lennon's contributions seem fewer, and a couple of them are a little slight but his major statements are stunning. "With a Little Help From My Friends" is the ideal Ringo tune, a rolling, friendly pop song that hides genuine Lennon anguish, a la "Help!"; "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" remains one of the touchstones of British psychedelia; and he's the mastermind behind the bulk of "A Day in the Life," a haunting number that skillfully blends Lennon's verse and chorus with McCartney's bridge. It's possible to argue that there are better Beatles albums, yet no album is as historically important as this. After Sgt. Pepper, there were no rules to follow - rock and pop bands could try anything, for better or worse. Ironically, few tried to achieve the sweeping, all-encompassing embrace of music as the Beatles did here.