The South Bank Show - The Making of Sgt Pepper part 1

On the 25th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper, The South Bank Show produced this episode about the making of the album. The three remaining Beatles and George Martin go through each song, explaining how it was created, the origins of the work, the era, influences and so on…. The result is 50 minutes with the greatest album ever made.
In 1967, the Beatles were at a crossroads — they quit touring, experimented with drugs and set out to change rock & roll forever. In late 1966 and early 1967, the group would make the most important album in rock history: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. When the Beatles finished Sgt. Pepper in late April 1967, they had spent four months and S75,000 on the project and they knew that what they had created was something different from anything they had done before. But nobody was prepared for what would happen with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The record sold 250,000 copies in Britain in its first week (500,000 by the end of June) and 2.5 million in

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S1992E02 - The South Bank Show - The Making of Sgt Pepper part 2