Sgt. Pepper

[andy-hughes]

A recent TV documentary about this album prompted me to play it again, after a long absence.

Given the limited (four tracks!) recording equipment and editing facilities available at the time, re-listening only re-enforces my view held since I first heard the album - 

This is a work of genius on all levels.

No wonder on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the Top One Hundred Albums, it is Number One.

Anyone else as big a fan as I am? 

[davebro3]

Yes - it's great. I like all the Beatles later stuff. I think the big change came with Rubber Soul - not to everyone's taste but a distinct departure from their earlier rock & roll. 

[retrocop]

No.Too phsychedelic. I bought the LP for my wife though and her brother is quite the authority on the Beatles. He went into purdah for about a month when Lennon was assassinated. The only song I liked was Eleanor Rigby. Must of been the violins.

[10ClarionSt]

I didn't buy it. I could have gone to see The Beatles in 1962 at our local Co-op Hall for 1/6. I bought a ticket but none of my mates would go, so I sold it to one of my sisters' friends. Hey ho! I bought lots of Beatles stuff in the early years but I didn't particularly like Sgt Peppers, so didn't buy it. Having said that, I've got three copies of it here; one belonging to Mrs Clarion; one that was my sisters' and one that was my brothers'. I never played it and couldn't tell you all of the tracks, only a couple. I don't think I missed anything.

[Prudie]

Not really (Revolver was my favourite) but when I was a student surrounded by intellectuals (which I'm not) that and the double white album were THE albums to admire.

[ImLostAgain]

Agree with Prudie re the Revolver album. That said Sgt P wasn't far behind. Brilliant both of them.

[andy-hughes]

Once The Beatles knew that they would never have to write songs with a view to playing them on stage, the sky was the limit. 

And boy did they reach for it !

[jno]

possibly the best known album ever issued anywhere, any time, by anyone. So eclectic too. They could have had a hit singing the phone book (and did singing a circus poster).

[andy-hughes]

Pure genius. It never ages, it never looses it's appeal.

[237SJ]

I saw Paul McCartney and Bono sing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Live 8.  I seem to remember that at the time it was said the backing band were wearing the original suits - not sure if that is just a fact that has got lost in the mists of time though.

[Togo]

Rubber Soul for me   ...   just. Sgt Pepper probably had a more immediate effect on issue, and I still play the following track in the car on my Ipod, but somehow Rubber Soul takes me back to where it all began and I am in Tiko in Newcastle U Lyme holding the brand new L.P.  "I'm Looking Through You"  was how I felt as a 17yr old who had just realised that it I needn't do as everyone else wanted me to. I still put on Abbey Rd, Sgt Pep, Rubber Soul and The White Album(occasionaly). I play this for fun and it is the remastered version.

&ab_channel=TheBeatles-Topic

[Togo]

Seeing as how I mentioned the track. It is here. Again the Remastered version. Incidently they did a great job, and saved the tracks as they were; for posterity; when they did the hard grind of remastering the Beatles tracks. Recommended.

&ab_channel=TheBeatles-Topic 

[andy-hughes]

Togo - The Tiko in Newcastle, was that the one near the bus station?

[Togo]

Yes. 

[Togo]

It was closed down and moved to the Sheridan shopping centre in the 70s(I think) after I had moved to N. Wales. The bus stops were further up towards the May Bank roundabout then and I think Tiko was on Hassel St. 

[Togo]

Stewie from Canada would remember. He was born and raised thereabouts. Wonder how he is. 

[ynnafymmi]

Nah,their best LPs were Greatest Hits-1962-1966 and Greatest Hits -1967-1970.Two Double LPs,both crammed full of the best music ever made.

[jourdain2]

I saw The Beatles perform live twice - once  in Bradford when they had just begun (my then husband saw them in Bradford when they were a warm-up group for Roy Orbison ) and the second time in Manchester.  This was quite a trip with my sister and friend and we'd all had to save-up!

Sis and I used to order the albums to arrive by post after the early ones.  I remember being a bit disappointed by Sgt. Pepper.  It grew on me, but then their music went a bit weird.  I loved and still love 'Eleanor Rigby'.  Did you know that the lyrics for that are (or were) included in GCSE poetry?

Like others 'Rubber Soul' was my favourite.

[pastafreak]

I'm siding with others here, and am split between Revolver and Rubber Soul.

I just listened to a track called Dr Robert...and have no recollection of it. ?? Too many other memorable ones.

[tomus42]

I don't think it's the best Beatles album musically, but it's the most important and groundbreaking one.

[Togo]

Another track from Rubber Soul that still means something to all who were there in the 60s. 

&list=PLg5pp7nrH0IqPGI0VUZ8TTynXkomhyVaD&index=11&ab_channel=TheBeatles-Topic