It was twenty years ago today,
Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play,
They've been going in and out of style,
but they're guaranteed to raise a smile.
So let me introduce to you,
the act you've known for all these years,
Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band!
Today is the fortieth anniversary of the release of this album by the Beatles. OK, it was June 1 in the UK and June 2 in the US, but as I am typing this it is still June 1 by GMT. So let's just celebrate the Beatles for two days, that would seem to be the fab thing to do. I have this album sitting on my desk at work. It is still an extraordinary piece of work, growing in stature over the years rather than diminishing.
If you have it, take it out and play it today. If you don't, you must buy it and listen to it.
4 comments:
I listened to the album again, as you instructed Gordon and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Rarely listen now, as it goes on happily in my head, wihout having to use CDs.
Although there is something romantic about my original record, though now it is rather battered, I never understood the folk who prefer records over CDs, except for the covers.
Sgt Pepper was such a great gatefold, though at least there was an effort made to create an interesting CD booklet with this album, if not for the other ones when thy were transported to CD.
To my ears, the digital sound is much better than the old gramaphone.
I do miss the scratches at times, however, and the 2 places that The Beatles double album jumped and the one place Abbey Road skipped a beat.
Great music, but I'm sorry about the drug-taking The Beatles encouraged, even as recently as their Anthology DVDs. Seeing what the marijuana has done to some folk, and one in particular, is very unnerving.
I celebrated by listening to Revolver a number of times.
G'day Neil and Gordon and you other geezers.
I was a Beatles fan from 1964. I eagerly awaited the arrival of each single [didn't know a lot abotu the albums].
My friend, Paul [whom I met at Christian Endeavour sports days. We were the kids sitting eating lollies while the other kids were running around.] invited me over to listen to Beatles For Sale.
It is a much-maligned album, but I lvoed it, and I must admit that part of this is because I listened to it with Paul. Even if you like Beatles For Sale, you are supposed to say "But I don't like Mr Moonlight".
But I did. I thought that conga drum and John's raver vocals and the organ were terrific.
Dunno how, but I missed Revolver. I heard Eleanor Rigby and Yellow Submarine, but never knew that there was an album released in 1966 until 1968.
One day I saw a copy in a department store and wondered how I'd ever missed it.
Revolver is a superb album. Remember listening to it at Duncan's place in Belmont North.
But Greg's folks had a record player [3-in-one jobbie, I think] which had a big bass speaker, and when you heard the first notes of Taxman, after the little bit of studio chatter [added on later for effect], that low D boooomed.
Hey David, Neeeeill;
Revolver. Good call. It is a great album, and in some ways more shocking than Sergeant Pepper's, which is the fruit of the root... Tomorrow Never Knows, Eleanor Rigby
I agree with you about the drug taking, David, and I would add the fooling around with Indian spirituality as something in which the lads did neither themselves nor their fans any favours. I don't know whether people might argue that it made them more creative. Or maybe it just made them forget their sources! George Harrison's My Sweet Lord unconsciously ripped off from the Chiffon's He's So Fine being a case in point.
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