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Pete Paphides, The Times, 17 March 2006

IN THE SIXTIES, when record companies thought nothing of squeezing two albums a year from their artists, the music industry benefited rampantly productive artists. As such, it didn’t seem incredible to anyone that, during a six-month period in 1967, the Beatles released the 'Strawberry Fields Forever'/'Penny Lane' double A-side, 'Sgt Pepper' and 'All You Need is Love'.

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