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The Beatles Release Sgt. Pepper’s

26th May 1967

On this day, The Beatles, released their eighth studio album, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. The album is considered one of the first art-rock LPs and a progenitor to progressive rock, incorporating a range of styles such as vaudeville, circus, music hall, avant-garde, and Western and Indian classical music. Sgt. Pepper’s release was a defining moment in pop culture, heralding the album era and the 1967 Summer of Love, and at the same time achieving full cultural legitimisation for popular music and recognition for the medium as a genuine art form. In 1968, it won four Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honour, and in 2003, it was inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Today, it still remains one of the best-selling albums of all time.

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Oscar Wilde Sentenced to Prison

25th May 1895

On this day, the well-known Irish author, poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, was convicted of ‘gross indecency’ and sentenced to two years’ hard labour. Wilde’s unsuccessful attempt to prosecute the Marquess of Queensbury for defamatory libel had had a boomerang effect and had led to Wilde himself being prosecuted for homosexual liaisons. The prison sentence was devastating for London’s most popular and influential playwright of the period, and on his release Wilde sailed the same evening for Dieppe in France, never to return to England. While in France he wrote, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol‘, a poem highlighting the brutality of the punishment that all convicts share. Towards the end, sick and dejected, and more or less confined to his hotel, Wilde joked, on one of his final trips outside, “My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.” He died soon after.