In 1993, "Sgt. Pepper" was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and ten years later it was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry, honouring the work as "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2003, "Rolling Stone" placed it at number one in the magazine's list of the "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", a ranking it retained in the revised list of 2012, and described the album as "the pinnacle of the Beatles' eight years as recording artists". The editors also said that "Sgt. Pepper" was "the most important rock 'n' roll album ever made", a point to which June Skinner Sawyers adds, in her 2006 collection of essays "Read the Beatles": "It has been called the most famous album in the history of popular music. It is certainly among the most written about. It is still being written about." On "Rolling Stone"s third such list, published in September 2020, "Sgt. Pepper" appears at number 24.