Not sure if I'd go so all-out on it, though. In of itself, yes, it's impressive...but coming as it does in the wake of the amazing 1965-67 'arc' of three albums, it just doesn't seem to have the same strength as those. Granted, we ARE talking about albums such as "Revolver", etc here...even God Almighty would be hard-pressed to top albums like that!
But yes, stacked up against 99.5% of the pop output of the ages, "Sgt. Pepper" can hold its own. It's just in sort of an 'unfortunate' position in The Beatles' output.
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