It will be the upset of the still-young century if, this June, we don’t find ourselves drowning in coverage of the 50th anniversary of two milestones in pop music (and pop culture): The release of The Beatles’ game-changing “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album (June 1) and the equally epochal “Summer of Love,” during which the hippie counterculture exploded in a purple haze of sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll.
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