Quoted from Bobber

Revolver was never played on stage and as you know, was released before Sgt Pepper.

Right, the were close with Paperback Writer ...
But as this one was

Quoted from raxo

[...](their first one) not played on stage by them (they stopped touring) [...]

then the press confences (mentioned above) were needed ...
I hope it's better now?

That's hardly readable.

Quoted from Bobber

That's hardly readable.

Excuse my handwristing then.

Quoted from harihead

George!!!!!!!  

why bonjour (I warn in advance I may be functioning poorly due to wine and tiredness I may regret this postage but worth it it is fpr I am celebrating sgt pepper 40th anniversaire beaucoup) As I am tired I am posting having not thoroughly read the rest of the thread however I endeavor to read it tomorrow

I ust wanted to ask if anyone is watching that program on Channel 4 now about Mr Sgt. Peppercorn himself. Well about recent bands like the kaiser chiefs and bryan adams and their attempts to recreate pepper tracks using the old stuff- 4 track recording. I watched a bit but due oncemore to my tiredness I endeavor to watch the rest tmorrow as my televisoin is using its recording function.

So what do we think of these attempts of Beatles tracks? I only saw the Kaiser Cheifs and I say poor show but at least they tried eh?

happy birthday SEARGANT you legendary vinyl you

Good night good people

MODIFY MODIFY I just saw a brief snippet of Bryan Adams covering Sgt Pepper- not bad not bad good voice but by golly is he looking old
it is grand to see some beatles recognition on the screen of modern TV for once

Quoted from tangerine

Good night good people

Good night tangerine.......

Golden slumbers fill your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.

Sleep, pretty orange fruit, do not cry........

Quoted from Hello Goodbye

Good night tangerine.......

Golden slumbers fill your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.

Quoted from Flaming Pie in the Sky

Sleep, pretty orange fruit, do not cry........

heehee! thank you both!  


Hmf. as I predicted I do slightly regret that rambling spiel I posted!
But I watched the rest of that program and it was quite good. Interesting to see modern bands struggling with the old 4-track technology- shows what an accomplishment Pepper really was for its time So no one else saw the program?

All we got here was 2 minutes on BBC World News.

I saw the Pepper tracks re-created by them bands .
It was good but nothing can touch Pepper as it is!!

I can't say there was much of celebration here. We had a small article in the papers all mainly about "the story behind LSD" (the song, naturally). Really now, they could have done a little better.   So we just listened to the cd.

Quoted from tangerine

I ust wanted to ask if anyone is watching that program on Channel 4 now about Mr Sgt. Peppercorn himself. Well about recent bands like the kaiser chiefs and bryan adams and their attempts to recreate pepper tracks using the old stuff- 4 track recording. I watched a bit but due oncemore to my tiredness I endeavor to watch the rest tmorrow as my televisoin is using its recording function.

So what do we think of these attempts of Beatles tracks? I only saw the Kaiser Cheifs and I say poor show but at least they tried eh?

I really enjoyed it, and thought they all did a good enough job (especially since they were only given a day to record on the same machines The Beatles did take after take on, and they obviously hadn't done a lot of rehearsing. Stereophonics were good, considering they'd learnt the wrong song! I was especially impressed with The Fray and their take on Fixing A Hole.

The BBC did an excellent 90 minute documentary on the anniversary of Marley's Exodus album last night, so I withdraw my previous snide remarks about Auntie's unhealthy obsession with Pepper.

I loved Travis's version of Lovely Rita on the Pepper doc.
the acoustic sound they got was really nice.

I'm beginning to move back to the old position that Pepper is their greatest album--even with when I'm 64 and not Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane.

I realized that the album has a consistent theme: of self and self-lessness, fame and nothingness--that's why the cover's so important, it connects to the everyday lives in the songs about the unfamous.  The famous and the unfamous are ultimately the same as live goes on "within you and without you."  

Very profound, very focused thematically.  The trippy songs (Mr Kite, Lucy, Fixing a Hole) all undermine the solidity of the temporal selfhood.   The other songs show that the mundane is not so mundane if you're "turned on" whether through drugs or consciousness.  

The Beatles, the biggest band in the world, become the not-Beatles, the fictional Sgt Peppers (a fiction of a fiction since the Beatles weren't really "The Beatles" as they'd been mythologized, by themselves and others).

In this album the whole is more than the sum of the parts.  And "A Day in the Life" has to have those two parts stuck together and finally mashed in the final Stockhausen apocalypse because it reinforces the duality of self/not-self, Being/not-being, which is the theme of the album.  The nostalgia songs conflicts with the bracing Here-and-now of "he blew his mind out in a car" or or the mundaneness of "Good Morning."

Those dummies on the cover are dummies.  The funeral is a flowerbed.  

I think Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane dichotomy is replicated on a larger scale by Sgt Pepper and probably why they should have been included in the album.  Although, maybe they aren't necessary after all.  

I like what Michelle Revolution had to say.  Too bad she left.  If she's reading, she ought to come back.