Celebrating 50 years since The Beatles released Sgt Pepper album

[Right_in_Virginia]

Celebrating 50 years since The Beatles released Sgt Pepper album
Sky News, Jun 1, 2017

For many, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is The Beatles at their best.

When it came out on 1 June 1967 it was unlike anything that had come before it. Experimental and immersive, it pushed musical boundaries.

Half a century on, it remains one of the most influential albums of all time, as Beatles author Steve Turner explains: "It was artistically aspirational at a time when most of their contemporaries were still playing beat music of some kind or another.

"They had these great ambitions. Paul was starting to go to the theatre, George was listening to Indian music, and all these new interests came in and affected the album."

Fans around the world clambered to get hold of a copy; Peter Blake's iconic artwork on the cover meant it immediately stood out. But the real revolution was how it sounded.

It was one of the very first rock and roll concept albums - 13 tracks about an imaginary world in which a fictional concert is taking place, led by a character called Sgt Pepper.


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[pookie18]

[truth_seeker]

And the other "artistically aspirational" album that year, was "Good Vibrations," by The Beach Boys. 

The Beatles acknowledged their respect for the other group.

[Gefn]

You have to admit it was a cool cover.

I buried Paul.

[EasyAce]

And the other "artistically aspirational" album that year, was "Good Vibrations," by The Beach Boys. 

The Beatles acknowledged their respect for the other group.

Actually, "Good Vibrations" was a Beach Boys single from fall 1966. The album that the Beatles
had loved (Paul McCartney in particular) was Pet Sounds.

[EasyAce]

You have to admit it was a cool cover.

I buried Paul.

@Freya

If you look to the far left at the third image up from the front row, it's one-time Beatle bassist
Stuart Sutcliffe, who left the group to stay in Hamburg, marry his photographer girl friend,
and study art full time, before he died of a brain hemorrhage in early 1962.

Further Pepper trivia: When Beatles manager Brian Epstein thought he was going to die
in a plane crash a month or so before he did die in 1967, he scratched out a note to be given
to the Beatles as his final wish: Brown paper bags for Sgt. Pepper. He didn't crash and
the Beatles didn't learn until after his actual death how much he disliked the Pepper
cover art.