sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band [50th anniversary super deluxe edition] rym

Apart from some relatively modest touches - the colorful uniforms, the opening theme song, the reprise near the end and Ringo’s entertaining turn as “the one and only Billy Shears” in “With a Little Help from My Friends” - the alter egos make no discernible appearances on the album.

Pepper concept was more significant for the psychological escape route it provided the Beatles than for its specific use on the album. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was born.Ĭlearly the Sgt. Already trapped, in their early twenties, the Beatles had to find a way out.

The magnitude of the Beatles phenomenon was starting to encroach on the band - and their experience with psychedelic drugs made that phenomenon seem increasingly surreal. A chasm had begun to open between their growing musical sophistication and the public’s perception of them as lovable mop tops. And removed, essentially for the first time, from the nonstop hoopla of Beatlemania, they also had time to question their identity as Beatles. Pepper its place as the best record of the past twenty years.Īfter the Beatles stopped touring in 1966, they had time to explore in greater depth the possibilities of the recording studio with producer George Martin. The “splendid time” McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr “guaranteed for all” has lasted more than two decades - and that immensely pleasurable trip has earned Sgt. The album he and those other “guys” in the Beatles released in 1967 revolutionized rock & roll. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band earlier this year, and it’s hard to argue with him. That’s how Paul McCartney describes his response to hearing Sgt. I haven’t heard anything this year that’s as inventive.

I just listened to it and said to myself, “God, I really love this album.” Still, today, it just sounds so fresh.

Sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band [50th anniversary super deluxe edition] rym