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Abbey Road cover band plays The Beatles A Day In The Life from 1967 album Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band on Beatles vs. Stones Tribute Concert at the House Of Blues, West Hollywood, CA Nov 7, 2013. "A Day In The Life", the last track on the album and written by Lennon/McCartney, is often cited by music critics and reviewers as maybe the first ever progressive rock song, due to its complex arrangement, structure and sound that was unheard of in rock music at the time. Phil Collins, drummer of the prog-rock band Genesis has said this of Ringo's playing on the song: "Ringo Starr is vastly underrated. The drum fills on the song 'A Day in the Life' are very complex things. You could take a great drummer today and say, 'I want it like that.' He wouldn't know what to do. "A Day in the Life", includes the phrase "I'd love to turn you on". The BBC banned the song from airplay on the basis of this line, claiming it could "encourage a permissive attitude toward drug-taking". Both Lennon and McCartney denied any drug-related interpretation of the song at the time, although McCartney's later comments in The Beatles Anthology documentary regarding the writing of the lyric make it clear that the drug reference was indeed deliberate.