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Album

Wolff Clark Dorsey Play Sgt. Pepper

By Leon Lee Dorsey

Label: Jazz Avenue 1 Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: With a Little Help from My Friends; Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds; A Day in the Life; She's Leaving Home; Within You Without You; Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band; Lovely Rita; When I'm Sixty-Four.

Video

Wolff Clark Dorsey play Sgt. Pepper

Featuring the music of Leon Lee Dorsey
Duration: 1:15
August 26, 2020

It was 53 years ago today, May 26, 1967, when the Beatles released the seminal Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. It has been hailed a milestone ("a joyful revelation," “the definitive Beatles album"), considered one of their best at the time of its release, and ranked “the greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone's list of the top 500 rock and roll recordings."

So, when bassist extraordinaire Leon Lee Dorsey and drum legend Mike Clark were tossing it back and forth one night, they got to musing about that incredible time period and what recordings represented the essence of the time and place, and the Beatles’ place in that time. It was the summer of love and Sgt. Pepper exhibited a profound optimism. “It's getting better all the time,” while recognizing the gravity, present and coming, “it can't get much worse." Continue...