"Sgt. Pepper's" Hits "The Beatles: Rock Band" November 17th

Already mastered Abbey Road on The Beatles: Rock Band? As promised, the entire Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band will be available as downloadable content for TB:RB starting November 17th. Sgt. Pepper's title track, "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds," "Getting Better," and "Good Morning Good Morning" were previously included in the game's original release, but the classic LP's remaining eight tracks, including "A Day in the Life," will hit Xbox 360s, PS3s and Wiis next week.

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Depending on what video game platform you own, the Sgt. Pepper tracks will be available separately or as a complete package. As Rolling Stone previously reported, Rubber Soul is the next album slated for a Rock Band makeover, with downloadable content being made available in December. Read RS' review of The Beatles: Rock Band here.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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