Pepper was so revolutionary in 1967 was because of the way it was recorded. Just about everybody can sing you a verse or two of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds,” “With A Little Help From My Friends” and “When I’m Sixty-Four,” but even with the deeper cuts like “Lovely Rita” and “Good Morning, Good Morning,” once you’ve heard them a time or two, you can’t forget them. John Lennon and Paul McCartney were at a peak of their creative powers in the months that they labored on this album, and the songs reflect that. I did go through an intensive period of listening to it after I first got it on CD in the ’90s, and now I find that its songs have etched themselves surprisingly deeply on my psyche. Pepper it was really as an adult that I first experienced it as an album, and it’s never been among my very favorites. But though I loved some of the songs on Sgt. It would be hard to overstate how important they were to me as a child, an adolescent, and a teenager. This review is for you in that third group. 3 on the Billboard album chart, the first time it’s been in the top 3 since December 1967.)ĭepending on your proclivities, either you’ve already bought at least one version of this set (probably the most deluxe), or you couldn’t care less, or you’re wondering if you really need one more version of a Beatles album that you’ve already bought at least twice, on vinyl and CD. And it’s been released in a variety of packages containing various numbers of discs with new stereo and original mono mixes and a bunch of early takes and outtakes, a book and a DVD. The album has been re-mixed from the original source tapes by Giles Martin, the son and later assistant of Sir George Martin, The Beatles’ original producer.
And unless you’ve been living in a cave (or have been too preoccupied with the intense political goings-on around the world in 2017), you probably know that The Beatles organization has done something special to commemorate that anniversary.
Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released. Somehow 50 years have come and gone since Sgt.
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