The song was the first track recorded during the sessions for the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and was intended for inclusion on the album. Instead, with the group under record-company pressure to release a single, it was issued in February 1967 as a double A-side with  Penny Lane .
Nebula Award Winners and Hugo Award Winners for Best Novel. The Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards are the traditional yardsticks for fantasy and science fiction writing and have been for decades. Winners are guaranteed a place in literary history and first editions of these acclaimed novels have become highly collectible.
The CWA International Dagger, which is awarded for crime, thriller, suspense or spy novels translated from their original language into English, was won by Fred Vargas for The Chalk Circle Man, which was translated from French by Sian Reynolds.