Post by Eggman on Aug 26, 2003 12:26:19 GMT
THE "SGT. PEPPER REPRISE" -- WHO CAME UP WITH THE IDEA?
DEREK TAYLOR: Neil Aspinall, first and senior road manager of the Beatles, school friend, and still working with the surviving ex-Beatles and Big Brother, their holding company Apple, retains detailed memories of the Sgt. Pepper days as of all other minutiae of their lives as musicians, artists, stars, colleagues and fellow-travellers through this vale of tears and laughter. Uninterviewed until now, and even now only in brief and guarded bursts, Neil Aspinall is loath to claim any credit for any ever, but it is uncommon knowledge that he put to Paul the suggestion that Sgt. Pepper song should be reprised, in part, as the penultimate song on the album, to the dismay of his close friend and fellow road manager Mal Evans, who always liked complete songs. As suggested by Neil the reprise would only be a part-song leading into what became 'A Day in the Life'. Neil remembers John (told of the suggestion by Paul) saying to him later with a wicked smile: 'Nobody likes a smart-ass.' That was in February, as the world waited and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Penny Lane' were prepared for release. Neil doesn't see the removing of those songs for a single as a loss to 'the concept' of the album.
Before Paul's death, Neil Aspinall never put his hands on a Beatles album.... I think
DEREK TAYLOR: Neil Aspinall, first and senior road manager of the Beatles, school friend, and still working with the surviving ex-Beatles and Big Brother, their holding company Apple, retains detailed memories of the Sgt. Pepper days as of all other minutiae of their lives as musicians, artists, stars, colleagues and fellow-travellers through this vale of tears and laughter. Uninterviewed until now, and even now only in brief and guarded bursts, Neil Aspinall is loath to claim any credit for any ever, but it is uncommon knowledge that he put to Paul the suggestion that Sgt. Pepper song should be reprised, in part, as the penultimate song on the album, to the dismay of his close friend and fellow road manager Mal Evans, who always liked complete songs. As suggested by Neil the reprise would only be a part-song leading into what became 'A Day in the Life'. Neil remembers John (told of the suggestion by Paul) saying to him later with a wicked smile: 'Nobody likes a smart-ass.' That was in February, as the world waited and 'Strawberry Fields Forever' and 'Penny Lane' were prepared for release. Neil doesn't see the removing of those songs for a single as a loss to 'the concept' of the album.
Before Paul's death, Neil Aspinall never put his hands on a Beatles album.... I think
