{"id":28904,"date":"2024-02-29T18:04:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T18:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-29-1968-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-wins-album-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T18:04:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T18:04:23","slug":"on-this-day-february-29-1968-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-wins-album-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-february-29-1968-the-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-wins-album-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, February 29, 1968: The Beatles\u2019 ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ wins Album of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On This Day, February 29, 1968 \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The Beatles<\/strong>\u2019 <\/span>Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/span><\/em> won Album of the Year at the 10th annual Grammy Awards.\u00a0The record was the first-ever rock album to win in the coveted category.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sgt. Pepper’s<\/span><\/em>\u00a0also won Grammys for Best Contemporary Album and Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical, while the album\u2019s iconic cover took home the award for Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the course of their career, The Beatles won seven Grammy Awards and received 23 nominations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Released in May 1967, <\/span>Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/span><\/em>\u00a0spent 15 weeks at #1 in the U.S. and\u00a027 weeks on top in the U.K. It featured such classic Beatles tunes as the title track, “With a Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” and “When I’m Sixty Four.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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On This Day, February 29, 1968 \u2026 The Beatles\u2019 Sgt. Pepper\u2019s Lonely Hearts Club Band won Album of the Year at the 10th annual Grammy Awards.\u00a0The record was the first-ever rock album to win in the coveted category. Sgt. Pepper’s\u00a0also won Grammys for Best Contemporary Album and Best Engineered Recording,Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}