10 Best Rock Album Closers Ever
2. A Day In The Life - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles' 1967 album is an eclectic collection of songs that showcases the four members' experimental new styles in a charmingly bizarre fashion. Framed around the premise of the titular fictional band, the album is one of the most recognisable records of the 1960s.
With songs such as "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite" and "Within You Without You", it's almost hard to believe that this album was made by the same mop-topped band that had released A Hard Day's Night three years earlier.
The final track of this album, "A Day In The Life", is a strange fever dream of a song that utilises a 40-piece orchestra incredibly well. Producing a track that is not only unlike anything else that the band had attempted before, but also unlike anything that was released afterwards.
Co-written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, the song moves through several different movements and sections, each one more peculiar than the last.
The final moments of the song, where the noise and the intensity of the orchestra keeps rising and rising until the final E chord played on several pianos rings out, still sends shivers down spines five decades later.