Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a multi-platinum double album produced by George Martin, featuring covers of songs by The Beatles. It was released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The release made history as being the first record to “return platinum”, with over four million copies of it taken off store shelves and shipped back to distributors. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the album ended up being destroyed by The Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO). The company itself experienced a considerable financial loss and the Bee Gees as a group had their musical reputation tarnished