Three months after they started the sessions for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles wrapped recording on what would become the final song on their landmark 1967 album.
The first-ever take of the groundbreaking Beatles track “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” has been released from the band’s archive in advance of the upcoming Sgt. Pepper’s reissue.
Critic Richard Goldstein infamously called the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band' “an undistinguished collection of work” – but he wasn’t alone in criticizing the project.