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Luminous Library: Periodical of the Day: Beatles, cont.

posted by drew

09.07.11

 "Sgt. Pepper hit a nerve in popular culture as nothing before had.... 'For a brief while,' critic Langdon Winner famously wrote, 'the irreparably fragmented consciousness of the West was unified, at least in the minds of the young.'

This was seen -- and is still remembered -- as a call to community. In some ways, the Beatles had represented this ideal all along: Through them, we witnessed the cultural power that a pop group and its audience could create; with Sgt. Pepper, possibilities of all sorts that felt boundless. Rock & roll became collusive with the social and political disruptions of the 1960s."

--Mikal Gilmore,

Rolling Stone magazine,
The Beatles: The Ultimate Album-by-Album Guide

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