When the World Stopped to Listen

NOW PLAYING: Forty-five years ago, on June 1, 1967, the Beatles unleashed their legendary album, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Rolling Stone magazine recently called it "the most important rock & roll album ever made, an unsurpassed adventure in concept, sound, sanguinity, cover art and studio technology by the greatest rock & roll group of all time." In this week's vodcast, John Whitehead looks back at the historical moment when the the world stopped to listen.