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"etymology_text": "First applied to the albums Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Their Satanic Majesties Request, both released in 1967.",
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"ref": "1967 December 9, “New Stones LP ‘Landmark’”, in Record World, →ISSN, page 22",
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"ref": "1996, Edward Macan, Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture, page 13",
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"ref": "2010, Marianne Tatom Letts, Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album, page 19",
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"roman": "ḳonceṗṭualuri albomi",
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"Their Satanic Majesties Request"
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"text": "[…] while the consistent use of lengthy forms such as the programmatic song cycle of the concept album and the multimovement suite underscores the hippies' new, drug-induced conception of time.",
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},
{
"ref": "2010, Marianne Tatom Letts, Radiohead and the Resistant Concept Album, page 19",
"text": "Moore relates the concept album to the ideals of progressive rock in the 1970s, building on Sgt. Pepper 's appeal to unity at the album level (through packaging, characters, and a simulated stage performance) and articulating a \"desire to establish a degree of aesthetic [that is, musical] unity greater than that of the individual song,\"[…]",
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