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Reviewing every UK number one album from 1956 to now


#49 The Beatles- Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
You might have heard of this one... (Parlophone) Released: 26 th May 1967 Producer: George Martin Topped the chart: 4 th June 1967 (for 23 weeks) 19 th November 1967 (for 1 week) 17 th December 1967 (for 2 weeks) 28 th January 1968 (for 1 week) 8 th June 2017 (for 1 week) 28 weeks total Here it is then: the Big Boy of 60s music. A new level of artistic statement from a pop group, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is credited with this new fangled “rock” music bein
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#48 The Monkees- More of the Monkees
More can sometimes mean less… (RCA Victor) Released: 9 th January 1967 Producer: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Carole Bayer Sager, Neil Sedaka, Michael Nesmith, Jeff Barry, Jack Keller, Gerry Goffin, Carole King Topped the chart: 7 th May 1967 (for 1 week) 21 st May 1967 (for 1 week) 2 weeks total A proper Ronseal album this one. More of the Monkees is, well, you can probably figure it out. More of the music that The Monkees recorded for the first season of their television
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#47 The Monkees- The Monkees
Hey hey! Who needs to play on their albums anyway? (RCA Victor) Released: 10 th October 1966 Producer: Tommy Boyce, Bobby Hart, Jack Keller, Michael Nesmith Topped the chart: 29 th January 1967 (for 7 weeks) 7 weeks total For a shiny, happy pop band put together for a TV show, the history of The Monkees isn’t half complicated. In-fighting, rebellion, scandal and the love of the era’s luminaries all feature, but generally history remembers them with a single word: “manufactu
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