Sgt. Peppers or Sgt. Pepper’s

[d6jg]

Here’s a question for my fellow musos.

Which is correct?
Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Or
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Grammatically it’s the latter and that’s what you will generally find in places like Wikipedia, AllMusic etc but look carefully at the cover art.

I found I had both variants in my library recently.

[KeBul]

They used Peppers on the band logo, on the drum kit and in the original album package, there was a "cut outs" sheet included which used the logo several times all with Peppers... the edge of the cover also used Peppers.

But... the track listing and lyrics on the rear of the cover it's Pepper's and on the original vinyl, album title and track listing on the centre of the record it was Pepper's

There's an original 1967 mono album on ebay UK at the moment with pictures.

So I'd go with Pepper's myself

Kev

[w3wilkes]

I agree with @KeBul. Pepper's is how Allmusic has it and whatever DBPoweramp uses to populate tags.

[Shozzer]

Spare a thought for those of us trying to correctly tag classical music!

[d6jg]

Spare a thought for those of us trying to correctly tag classical music!

Why? 😀
I’m joking.
It came to light when MAI didn’t bring back an album review. Closer examination showed CD versions were Pepper’s but my vinyl rips - a 70s copy and a deAgostini 180g - were Peppers.

[Grumpy Bob]

I can take or leave the apostrophe. I don't have any Beatles albums! (I don't really care for them).

Robert the iconoclast

[RobbH]

It's always "Pepper's" in my tags.

But in some cases it's "Sgt." while one instance is just "Sgt".

I suppose that one never stops, fully.

[whitman]

My friend Bob, who was worryingly deep into fish, used to call it Sturgeon Kipper's Bony Carp's Chub Band. I'm pretty sure with those two apostrophes.