
In this 1987 reflection, George Martin looks back on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band—not with pomp or pride, but with a quiet surprise that people still cared. He admits that when they finished it, it was just another record. The idea that it would still be revered two decades later? “Too awesome for words,” he says with a laugh. It’s a rare moment of modesty from the man behind the Beatles’ most ambitious album.