It was 45 years ago today (almost) Sgt. Pepper hit the charts to stay.

In honor of what he names as “one of the greatest albums of all time,” Park Peters, owner of Audio Park recording studio in Arvada, is throwing a party to celebrate the 45th birthday of the Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

The album was released June 1, 1967. Not only is it hailed as one of the best-selling albums of all time, spending 15 weeks on the US Billboard 200 and winning four Grammys in 1968, but it also changed the way music is recorded.

In the ‘60s, when recording equipment was not as refined as it is today, bands generally recorded albums in one or two days, Peters said. Only 15 hours were allotted by most studios for sessions that would turn into albums. Artists and bands had to be able to perform in that short time frame, and without much audio enhancement.

“I would like to challenge most groups now to do that,” Peters said.

Peters and John Lane, who is also in the recording business and a Beatles fan, are throwing a party on Friday, June 1, to celebrate the anniversary of the album’s release. The free event will be at Peters’ studio, 5603 Yukon St. It will begin at 7 p.m., with Peters playing tracks that didn’t make it onto the Beatles’ albums. Lane will make video and powerpoint presentations that explain the making of Sergeant Pepper’s.

Peters said the Beatles decided to take a break from touring and performing in August 1966. After spending some time away from each other to pursue other interests, they got together again in December to spend 120 days in the studio making this historical album, which inspired the then-9-year-old Peters to pursue recording music. Peters was born, blind, in Coffeeville, Kan. His parents decided to relocate to the Denver area when he was six months old because Denver’s public schools had more programs in place for blind children.

Growing up, Peters had top-of-the-line recording machines and tape players to help him with his schooling. He was also a musician and singer, and like many young musicians, decided record himself since he had the equipment available.

“That prompted me to be the whiz kid on the block when it came to recording and music,” Peters said.

He and friends would spend hours playing records, and dissecting music and recording techniques that studios were using at the time. Sgt. Pepper’s had one of the greatest impacts on him. When he was studying recording engineering at the University of Colorado at Denver, he picked up the album again, and his love was reborn when he discovered the intricate details he hadn’t noticed as a nine-year-old.

Among those details, he realized, was that all the songs were in sequence by the key they were played in.

“They clearly gave some thought to making all of that work,” Peters said.

Peters has been running his own recording studio in Arvada since April 2005. He works with musicians to record albums and with major corporations on commercial spots. He also records books on tape, along with many other types of projects.

Posters of the Beatles line the hallways of his studio, and according to Peters, that is how it should be in every recording studio, since the Beatles had such a big influence on the industry.