

Producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick helped realise their ideas by approaching the studio as an instrument, applying orchestral overdubs, sound effects, and other methods of tape manipulation. Knowing they would not have to perform new songs live, the band adopted an experimental approach to composition and recording. This would give the Beatles freedom to experiment musically, and as a result, they furthered the technological progression they had made with their previous album Revolver (1966). After recording sessions began in November, he later suggested the band release an entire album representing a performance by the fictional Sgt.

After the band permanently retired from touring in August 1966, member Paul McCartney suggested an idea for a song involving an Edwardian military band that ultimately formed the impetus of the Sgt. It was first released on in the United Kingdom by Parlophone and on 2 June in the United States by Capitol Records. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by English rock band The Beatles.
