The Counterculture 

Movement

"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" is the Beatle's eighth studio album. It was an immediate success when it was released. The album stayed on the United Kingdom's top albums chart for 27 weeks and it spent 15 weeks on the United State's number one album spot. When the album was written, the Beatles were on a permanent break from touring and holding live shows. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" became the anthem for the Summer of Love and later a symbol for the counterculture era.

The success of the album was because of the progressive style and ideas in the music. Young people felt that the album coincided with the revolution of their thinking and beliefs. Many people believed tracks from the album referred to recreational drug use so those tracks were banned from some radio stations in the United Kingdom. 

The reason why this album is so important is because it expressed all of the feelings that hippies and young students were feeling and it became the soundtrack for their generation. It is also one of the most successful albums in the history of music selling 32 million copies worldwide.