In a 1976 article for "The Village Voice", Christgau revisited the "supposedly epochal Works of Art" from 1967 and found that "Sgt. Pepper" appeared "bound to a moment" amid the year's culturally important music that had "dated in the sense that it speaks with unusually specific eloquence of a single point in history". Christgau said of the album's "dozen good songs and true", "Perhaps they're too precisely performed, but I'm not going to complain." In his 1981 assessment, Simon Frith described "Sgt. Pepper" as "the last great pop album, the last LP ambitious to amuse "everyone"".