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Thing. you drop the needle on it and you would hear a crackle and be taken away on this journey. ♪ >> sergeant pepper was our opera. it sounded unlike anything we were used to. >> the 60s, lyrics are generally infantile and its noise, not music. but the sergeant pepper album was brilliant, signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained. it really caught the moment. >> this music is crucial to todays art, and its crucial that it should remain art, and its crucial that it should

Best. crystal, did you love that or what? that little pink number. >> it was, you know, of the time period. >> no, it wasnt. but this class warfare thing, you make a big deal out piece. >> nancy was seen as very wealthy because she had patrician looks. i mean, she looked like she came from money. in fact, she was blue collar. and tanya, you know, she really was from poverty. to nancy got vera wang outfis and tanya had homemade outfits that looked a little sergeant pepper like. and this avs a big...

Those kinds of services in communities are less and less and less. i worry about lets run toward legalization, lets lift the ban on this, without having some support in place for young people who struggle. >> much like alcohol, what support systems do we have in place for 17-year-olds drinking every week end not enough. >> i agree. i think it is great that all of us, im sure david brooks would agree, incarceration is not a viable option, treatment should be available. i enjoyed the david brooks ...

Underground music scene. instrumental freakouts along with strange and colorful lyrics. essentially british pop dipped in lsd. while the group was laying down the album the beatles were working on sergeant pepper in the studio right next door and to this day the piper at the gates of down is still considered one of the best psychedelic albums of the 60s and pink floyd first took a trip to the studio 46 years ago today. i like the new theme music. now, you know the you news for this thursday, feb...

Joe." the former president of capital records, joe smith and the man whos signings include jimi hendrix, van morrison and the eagles during joe smiths four decades in the music business he worked with some of the biggest names in the industry and got them to share their thoughts with him for his 1988 book "off the record" an oral history of popular music. joe is now donating more than 230 hours worth of audio clips from those interviews to the library of congress and he joins us now to share som...

Possibly the greatest album of all time. >> take a listen. >> that was one hell of a period, completely different like another lifetime. we were like different people by then. cause the drugs thing, you have to remember in the 60s, there was this new thing which had always been there with musicians, the jazz musicians and stuff, but wed just become introduced to it through the sort of the hippie kind of thing that was happening then. and sergeant pepper owes a lot to drugs, to pot and stuff. we ...

>> follow that kind of stuff? >> i do. >> check on that. >> i thought youll appreciate this, i thought the moment of the season was -- >> the revolver thing. >> revolver, where she takes out -- dons wife takes out revolver, the second i saw it, im thinking this is the album that split the 60s down the middle. >> and split the beatles career. the moment when the turn came. you could argue about possibly being the best of all the beatles albums, but a huge moment in the 60s that moment when lsd su...

These boys were 17. now i have a 21-year-old daughter. and i just think, you know -- >> i didnt realize they were that young. >> they were young. >> they were little boys. >> babies. >> makes me feel really old. >> my childhood. >> i was just going to say, its a coincidence we also have with us here today the person known throughout the 1960s as the fifth beatle, larry kudlow. >> thats what i was thinking. >> larry introduced them to dylan, marijuana, and of course he is here celebrating 50 year...

He was actually on lsd from 1967 to 1969. >> exactly. and paul was exploring the cutting edge arts scene and really getting into the sort of very edgy material. >> but you look at the stuff that the critics still go crazy about 50 years later, and it is sergeant pepper that he and george martin put together. also the backside of abby road, which people still consider probably the greatest backside of any album. and it was all mccartney. and of course, lennon, a genius, but, you know, the beatles...

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