According to Womack, with "Sgt. Pepper" opening song "the Beatles manufacture an artificial textual space in which to stage their art." The reprise of the title song appears on side two, just before the climactic "A Day in the Life", creating a framing device. In Lennon and Starr's view, only the first two songs and the reprise are conceptually connected. In a 1980 interview, Lennon stated that his compositions had nothing to do with the Sgt. Pepper concept, adding: ""Sgt. Pepper" is called the first concept album, but it doesn't go anywhere ... it works because we "said" it worked."