Post by Eggman on Aug 28, 2003 22:16:16 GMT
Extracted from The Beatles at Abbey Road, by Mark Lewisohn, 1987
SGT PEPPER MYSTERY AND RECORDINGS
Some people say there is a secret, mysterious meaning behind 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band'. This album holds behind it a haunting tale of death. However this album revolutionized rock n' roll.
The year was 1967. The Beatles had just stopped touring and had been working nine months on one of the greatest albums of all time. The Beatles were beyond money, they were at a point where they could do no wrong. So the question was what do you do?
Experiment.
And experiment they did. The mastered arrangements of this album speak for themselves.
Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, knew the dark side of Beatlemania
. Brian had noticed that the Beatles were growing farther away from him.
Epstein soon began to do more and more drugs. One night Epstein became very upset, and over dosed on drugs. Sgt.Pepper's was haunted by death. When Epstein's body was found so was a note, a reminder. It read, Tell John to release Sgt. Pepper's in brown paper bags. as if it were something so horrible that it was not to be seen until you got home.
What you see here is the grave of the Beatles (a name which none of them really liked anyways) and standing over it is the Beatles reincarnated into a twenties marching band. In the back of them are who they call they're "friends". The grave is covered with belongings and upon it a patch of marijuana!
If the album cover is horrifying, the lyrics are even more so. They're friends are mostly people who ended up dying horrible deaths . On the side is a doll covered in blood reading:
"Welcome the Rolling Stones"
The lyrics are even stranger. In Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" (the song), the Beatles actually ask us to go to the grave with them. Then the Beatles welcome Billy Shears, the British grave digger in "With a Little Help from my Friends".
"Pepper" finishes off with a bang. "A Day in the Life" is true genius by John Lennon. At the height of the war, this song sums it up with the "Oh Boy!"
It doesn't represent my thoughts about the album but it's really a strange view.
The most strange for me is the quote about Brian Epstein.
That's all folks!!!! ;D ;D
Eggy
SGT PEPPER MYSTERY AND RECORDINGS
Some people say there is a secret, mysterious meaning behind 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band'. This album holds behind it a haunting tale of death. However this album revolutionized rock n' roll.
The year was 1967. The Beatles had just stopped touring and had been working nine months on one of the greatest albums of all time. The Beatles were beyond money, they were at a point where they could do no wrong. So the question was what do you do?
Experiment.
And experiment they did. The mastered arrangements of this album speak for themselves.
Brian Epstein, the Beatles' manager, knew the dark side of Beatlemania
. Brian had noticed that the Beatles were growing farther away from him.Epstein soon began to do more and more drugs. One night Epstein became very upset, and over dosed on drugs. Sgt.Pepper's was haunted by death. When Epstein's body was found so was a note, a reminder. It read, Tell John to release Sgt. Pepper's in brown paper bags. as if it were something so horrible that it was not to be seen until you got home.
What you see here is the grave of the Beatles (a name which none of them really liked anyways) and standing over it is the Beatles reincarnated into a twenties marching band. In the back of them are who they call they're "friends". The grave is covered with belongings and upon it a patch of marijuana!
If the album cover is horrifying, the lyrics are even more so. They're friends are mostly people who ended up dying horrible deaths
. On the side is a doll covered in blood reading:"Welcome the Rolling Stones"
The lyrics are even stranger. In Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" (the song), the Beatles actually ask us to go to the grave with them. Then the Beatles welcome Billy Shears, the British grave digger in "With a Little Help from my Friends".
"Pepper" finishes off with a bang. "A Day in the Life" is true genius by John Lennon. At the height of the war, this song sums it up with the "Oh Boy!"
It doesn't represent my thoughts about the album but it's really a strange view.
The most strange for me is the quote about Brian Epstein.
That's all folks!!!! ;D ;D
Eggy
