ho is actually going to show the importance of Sgt Pepper?You can not regard it.You can say it's overrated.But no reasonably informed connoisseur of Rock and Roll can refuse its bone shattering impact.It's like defiantly declaring that Michael Jordan was the greatest basketball player. Well, duh.We all know that.And this man makes it kind of boring to be a Beatles fan.There's nothing really bold about it.But that's just fine.People don't love great music to try to the world how sophisticated and original they are.Well, you do if you're a smug, contrarian jaggoff.No, we enjoy great music because it resonates with our soul.Because it both reflects and defines who we are as a culture and as individuals.Because it floods us with memories both personal and collective.And blessed it, great music just makes us feel good.And make no mistake about it, the Beatles made great music.Let me pay you with a splendid and impossible thought.What if Dr Sam Becket leaped back in time to the 1st week of December, 1980 into the body of the porter at the Dakota apartments in Manhattan.Don't act like you don't get the Quantum Leap reference.You loved that record every bit as much as me.Admit it.Al would explain to Sam that his bill is to search for Mark David Chapman to get John Lennon's autograph the dawn of the 8th and then waste his crazy ass head off at point blank range.Done and done.It would be a short episode.Sam then would leap into the body of a circus performer having marital problems in 1958.But Sam can't walk on a tight rope!What will he ever do?)The tip is, Lennon lives!What would have happened?Well, probably not much for the next pair of years.It's not like the Beatles were planning on touring the summer of 81 or anything.But John would get done the talk show circuit, plugging Double Fantasy (an uneven album but it has half dozen or so songs that are fantastic).He would get through a few tour dates and so taken another few years off to see Sean grow up.In 1985 he would divorce Yoko's crazy ass and marry Connie Chung.John likes them sideways.Then in 1987 he would take a dreadful record.It would be called something like "Electric Kettle Fish" and he would appear on the cover wearing a dear tie and Ray-bans.Sadly, most of the musical greats from the 60's and 70's produced some awful music in the 80's.Touch Of Gray, ring a bell?Kokomo?Say, Say, Say?