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p2pnet.net news:- It was 40 years ago today Sgt Pepper taught the band to play ….
Yup. It’s almost the 40th anniversary almost to the day of what’s probably The Beatles’most famous album.
Friday, June 1, will mark the album’s 40th birthday.
Robert Sandall in The Times Online nails it. He writes:
This was the moment when anybody under 25 knew that the value system with which they had grown up was history. Caution, sexual reticence, patient acquisitiveness and all the hallmarks of a decent life, as defined since the Victorian era, suddenly looked bogus. By one of the cosmic strokes of luck that marked their career, the Beatles chose this instant to release an album that straddled the emerging rift. On one hand, Sgt Pepper embraced the tumult of the new, with its swirling psychedelic sound effects, its strangely disconnected stories and a sitar-driven paean to eastern mysticism. In other respects, many of the songs were in love with the past.
When I’m Sixty-Four, She’s Leaving Home, Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite and the title track celebrated Britain in the decades before the Beatles and their swinging pals arrived to shake it inside out. A Day in the Life, still most people’s favourite song, contained a bit of both. Add Peter Blake’s iconic cover, and it’s small wonder that such a miraculously inclusive record has endured better than any other of its era.
Sandall’s write-up is a review of Clinton Heylin’s book, The act you can known for all these years: The Life and Afterlife of Sgt Pepper. Apparently, he’s not quite as enthusiastic about Sgt Pepper as Sandall.
Meanwhile, Oasis, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers and The Fratellis are recording songs from it on a ‘tribute’ album.
Razorlight and James Morrison will also feature in special sessions for BBC Radio 2, says the BBC, and they’ll be recorded by sound engineer Geoff Emerick with the original four-track equipment he used to tape the Fab Four in person 40 years ago.
Sgt Pepper II will be broadcast on June 2 and unfortunately, it’s a good bet that Paul McCartney will find an excuse some kind of personal reprise of the album.
Also See:
The Times Online - The Act You’ve Known For All These Years, May 27, 2007
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