I’ve not really been into much, lately, but someone suggested the “cool music” I listen to in my pickup. That music is simply a CD of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by The Beatles.

Yeah, it’s old, like me, but I still enjoy it. The music takes me back to high school — not necessarily the greatest time — but the era was one when some of the best popular music ever created was produced.

“Sgt. Pepper” is far more than a collection of what otherwise would’ve been singles. As with most Beatles songs, most are written by and have as the lead singers John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

The album starts with the main Sgt. Pepper song — this CD doesn’t have the skips my old LP had — and blends right into “A Little Help From My Friends,” where we get Ringo Starr singing lead. I read once that Ringo insisted on a lyric change to “would you stand up and walk out on me” from “would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me” because he was concerned over the crazy fans during Beatlemania.

When I hear “Lucy in the Sky (With Diamonds)” I’m reminded that I read once that unlike what some accused John of, it wasn’t about LSD. The song came from a picture his son, Julian, drew at school. John asked, “What’s this?” and Julian told him “Lucy in the sky, and those are diamonds.”

There’s also “Within you, Without You,” one of George Harrison’s early songs where he plays the sitar.

It’s not a favorite of mine, but it is good.

I do like Paul’s “When I’m Sixty-Four” and wonder if he’ll do a reprise of it in a couple years when he turns 84.

Two of my favorites on the album are “She’s Leaving Home” and “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite,” the latter John wrote — or let it write itself — after finding a playbill from the 1840s in an antique shop.

There’s also “Lovely Rita, Meter Maid” and “Good Morning,” with its gaggle of chickens, dogs and other animals singing backup. Then, comes the “Sgt. Pepper” reprise, a fitting bookend to nearly the end of the album that’s concluded with “A Day in the Life,” which John wrote after seeing some news clippings.

I may not be into much, these days, waiting for summer to arrive in Wallowa County, but The Beatles keep me entertained.