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June 1 was the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967).

When I first heard Sgt.Pepper's by the Beatles it was one of those albums that jump started my inspiration and interest in music. The orchestral arrangements, sound scapes and phenomenal melodies (not to mention the cool outfits of the Fab four) kept me transfixed. I must have listened to it at least 2-3 times a day for months. Few things in life have this kind of impact on us. This was one for me.

What event or... captivated and inspired you as a child?

Here's great article about the making of :

http://www.riprense.com/sgtpepper.htm

It begins: Many critics, I think, have forgotten that “Pepper” was a kind of pinnacle of genre, a new sort of music that had never exactly existed before. You no more dismiss its importance and achievement than you dismiss Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony because it’s 19th century orchestral music. Continuing that analogy, you don’t evaluate the Ninth Symphony as a collection of movements that have no particular relationship to one another, and you do not evaluate “Sgt. Pepper” as a bunch of songs that happened to appear together on a vinyl disc. This album is a piece. Though not conceived as a whole, it was executed as one---the product of a single gigantic and intense series of recording sessions. It also bears remembering that there were no hits from “Pepper,” no singles. The whole damn thing was a hit, and the biggest of its time, if not all time. In the summer of 1967, in many cities, you could not walk the length of a block without leaving earshot of this record. Humanity’s collective jaw was agape, its ears full of iridescent, irresistable sounds of a kind it had never heard before.