The Beatles‘ music changed a lot over the decade they were in the public eye. The Liverpudlian group started out playing skiffle music, but ended up exploring new music styles in a more psychedelic style. The first time this happened was in 1967 after the release of their seventh studio album, Revolver.
In 1966 the Fab Four started work on their eighth album, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Once it was released in 1967 the record reached number one in the UK Albums Charts and was later awarded a Grammy Award for Best Album (the first rock record to achieve this award). But the road to writing and recording the album started when the band first encountered psychedelic drugs.
Years later, the band’s producer George Martin asked Paul McCartney what inspired the record, and his answer was surprising.
At the time Martin was producing a TV show on the Sgt Pepper’s album. McCartney recalled Martin asking him: “Do you know what caused Pepper?”
He remembered: “I said: ‘In one word, George, drugs. Pot.’ And George said: ‘No, no. But you weren’t on it all the time.'” McCartney then…
