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Grammy Hall of Fame Award recipients

  • Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band arrived on the 26th of May 1967, and within days it was playing from open windows across London at six in the morning…
  • Thriller (album)Thriller, the sixth studio album by Michael Jackson, arrived on the 29th of November 1982, and within months it was selling one million copies worldwide…
  • Revolver (Beatles album)Revolver, the Beatles’ seventh studio album, arrived on the 5th of August 1966 with a record cover unlike anything pop music had seen: a tangle of hair…
  • Help! (song)"Help!" is a song that John Lennon would later call one of the most honest things he ever wrote. It arrived in the summer of 1965 dressed as a pop single…
  • Rubber SoulIn August 1965, the Beatles played to over 55,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York. That same month, they met Bob Dylan in New York City and Elvis Presley in…
  • Abbey RoadAbbey Road, the eleventh studio album by the Beatles, ends with a line that Frank Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written: not a Lennon-McCartney…
  • Let It Be (song)Paul McCartney dreamed of his mother Mary Patricia McCartney in 1956 after she had died of cancer. He was fourteen years old at the time.
  • Bohemian Rhapsody"Bohemian Rhapsody" arrived in 1975 as something British radio executives were fairly certain would never be played. Six minutes long, with no chorus, three…
  • The Beatles (album)The Beatles, released on the 22nd of November 1968, arrived in a plain white sleeve with no artwork, no colour, no decoration beyond the band's name pressed…
  • Pet SoundsPet Sounds, the eleventh studio album by the Beach Boys, arrived on the 16th of May 1966, and cost more to make than any rock record before it.
  • Eleanor RigbyEleanor Rigby is a 1966 song by the Beatles, and it arrived on the charts with none of the guitars, drums, or amplified roar the band had built its name on.
  • Strawberry Fields Forever"Strawberry Fields Forever" arrived on the 13th of February 1967, and almost nobody knew what to make of it. Derek Johnson of the NME confessed in print that…
  • I Want to Hold Your Hand"I Want to Hold Your Hand" was recorded by the Beatles on the 17th of October 1963, and within weeks it had upended the American music industry in ways no…
  • A Hard Day's Night (album)The Beatles arrived at EMI Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris on the 29th of January 1964 for their first recording session outside London.
  • Hey Jude"Hey Jude" began as a car journey and a father's absence. In June 1968, Paul McCartney drove out to Weybridge to visit a five-year-old boy named Julian…
  • Act Naturally"Act Naturally" began as a throwaway line and became one of the most traveled songs in country music history. Johnny Russell was in Fresno, California, in…
  • Meet the Beatles!Meet the Beatles! arrived in American record stores on the 20th of January 1964, and within weeks, nothing about popular music would feel the same.
  • Penny LanePenny Lane is a road in a south Liverpool suburb, and it is also one of the most celebrated songs the Beatles ever made.