It was 50 years ago that The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's been called the beginning of the album era. In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked it #1 on their "500 Greatest Albums of All Time." It is the best-selling album of the 1960s.
Deconstructing "Sgt. Pepper's" is a filmed lecture by musicologist Scott Freiman. Freiman joins Colin and Hartford's favorite local musicologist Steve Metcalf for the hour.
GUESTS:
- Scott Freiman - A musicologist, a composer, and a producer, and the lecturer behind the Deconstructing The Beatles series
- Steve Metcalf - Director of the University of Hartford's Presidents' College, and WNPR's Metcalf on Music columnist
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Colin McEnroe and Betsy Kaplan contributed to this show, which originally aired April 4, 2017.