Fact #105887
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Short story:
Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles enters the UK album chart at No1.
Full article:
Sgt Pepper's iconic status leaves it beached above rock's high water mark. Speak its name to any well-schooled rock critic or fan and, within seconds, a Pavlovian 'greatest album ever made' or 'not as good as Revolver' will spurt forth. Assuming there's anybody over the age of two who doesn't already know half the songs, the only first approach must be to ditch objectivity, get stuck in and, more than likely, fall in love. If nothing else, the kindly old duffer Pepper is surely a British stereotype as enduring as Jeeves or Alf Garnett, Lucy In the Sky is everybody's idealised psychedelic girlfriend and When I'm Sixty Four is a pub standard on a par with Down At The Old Bull And Bush.
Johnny Black
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Paul McCartney : After Pepper was finished, I thought it was great. I thought it was a huge advance, and I was very pleased because a month or two earlier the press and the music papers had been saying, "What are The Beatles up to? Drying up, I suppose." So it was nice, making an album like Sgt Pepper and thinking, "Yeah, drying up, I suppose. That's right." It was lovely to have them on that when it came out. I loved it. I had a party to celebrate - that whole weekend was a bit of a party, as far as I recall.
'I remember getting telegrams saying: "Long live Sgt Pepper. " People would come round and say, "Great album, man".
'It certainly got noticed. It was released on the Friday, and on the Sunday Jimi Hendrix opened with "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when we saw him at The Saville Theatre. That was the single biggest tribute for me. I was a big fan of Jimi's, and he'd only had since the Friday to learn it.
John was very pleased with the album. It fitted with what we were doing, and he certainly had some great tracks on it. Day in the Life is a classic.
John Lennon: People just have this dream about Sgt. Pepper. It was good for then, but it wasn't that spectacular when you look back on it. I prefer some tracks off the double album and some tracks off Abbey Road. When you think back on Pepper, what do you remember? Just A Day In The Life. You know, I go for individual songs, not for whole albums.
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Johnny Black
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Paul McCartney : After Pepper was finished, I thought it was great. I thought it was a huge advance, and I was very pleased because a month or two earlier the press and the music papers had been saying, "What are The Beatles up to? Drying up, I suppose." So it was nice, making an album like Sgt Pepper and thinking, "Yeah, drying up, I suppose. That's right." It was lovely to have them on that when it came out. I loved it. I had a party to celebrate - that whole weekend was a bit of a party, as far as I recall.
'I remember getting telegrams saying: "Long live Sgt Pepper. " People would come round and say, "Great album, man".
'It certainly got noticed. It was released on the Friday, and on the Sunday Jimi Hendrix opened with "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" when we saw him at The Saville Theatre. That was the single biggest tribute for me. I was a big fan of Jimi's, and he'd only had since the Friday to learn it.
John was very pleased with the album. It fitted with what we were doing, and he certainly had some great tracks on it. Day in the Life is a classic.
John Lennon: People just have this dream about Sgt. Pepper. It was good for then, but it wasn't that spectacular when you look back on it. I prefer some tracks off the double album and some tracks off Abbey Road. When you think back on Pepper, what do you remember? Just A Day In The Life. You know, I go for individual songs, not for whole albums.
(Source : not known)