Difference between revisions of "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album)"
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|Released = 1 June 1967 | |Released = 1 June 1967 | ||
| − | |Recorded = 6 December 1966& | + | |Recorded = 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967,<br /> [[Abbey Road Studios|Abbey Road]] and Regent Sound studios, London |
| − | |Genre = | + | |Genre = Pop|Psychedelic Rock |
|Length = 39:42 | |Length = 39:42 | ||
| − | |Label = | + | |Label = Parlophone |
|Producer = [[George Martin]] | |Producer = [[George Martin]] | ||
| Last album = ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]''<br />(1966) | | Last album = ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]''<br />(1966) | ||
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| + | {{cquote|''Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'' is one of the most important steps in this group's career. It had to be just right. We tried and I think succeeded in achieving what we set out to do. If we hadn't, then it wouldn't be out now.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1967}} | ||
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| + | {{cquote|You just have to keep striving for perfection. This LP, I think, is the best we've done, but only the best we could do at that time. The next one ought to be better. That's always got to be the goal. We were born as musicians. That's our gig in life. Whatever your gig is in life, you have to keep trying to improve, and you should improve if you're just soaking up life, and everything that's going on.|quotewidth=500px|George Harrison|1967}} | ||
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| + | {{cquote|'Sgt. Pepper' is Paul after a trip to America and the whole West Coast long-named group thing was coming in. You know, when people were no longer the Beatles or the Crickets-- they were suddenly Fred And His Incredible Shrinking Grateful Airplanes, right? So I think he got influenced by that and came up with this idea for the Beatles.|quotewidth=500px|John Lennon|1980}} | ||
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| + | {{cquote|It was an idea I had, I think, when I was flying from L.A. to somewhere. I thought it would be nice to lose our identities, to submerge ourselves in the persona of a fake group. We would make up all the culture around it and collect all our heroes in one place. So I thought, A typical stupid-sounding name for a Dr. Hook's Medicine Show and Traveling Circus kind of thing would be 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' Just a word game, really."|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1984}} | ||
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| + | {{cquote|We were fed up with being Beatles. We really hated that fucking four little mop-top boys approach. We were not boys, we were men. It was all gone, all that boy shit, all that screaming, we didn't want anymore, plus, we'd now got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers... then suddenly on the plane I got this idea. I thought, 'Let's not be ourselves. Let's develop alter egos so we're not having to project an image which we know. It would be much more free.'|quotewidth=500px|Paul McCartney|1994}} | ||
[[Category:Beatles Albums]] | [[Category:Beatles Albums]] | ||
Revision as of 10:56, 1 January 2010
| Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band | ||||
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| Studio album by The Beatles | ||||
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| Released | 1 June 1967 | |||
| Recorded | 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967, Abbey Road and Regent Sound studios, London |
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| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 39:42 | |||
| Label | Parlophone | |||
| Producer | George Martin | |||
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| “ | Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is one of the most important steps in this group's career. It had to be just right. We tried and I think succeeded in achieving what we set out to do. If we hadn't, then it wouldn't be out now. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1967 |
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| “ | You just have to keep striving for perfection. This LP, I think, is the best we've done, but only the best we could do at that time. The next one ought to be better. That's always got to be the goal. We were born as musicians. That's our gig in life. Whatever your gig is in life, you have to keep trying to improve, and you should improve if you're just soaking up life, and everything that's going on. | „ |
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—George Harrison, 1967 |
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| “ | 'Sgt. Pepper' is Paul after a trip to America and the whole West Coast long-named group thing was coming in. You know, when people were no longer the Beatles or the Crickets-- they were suddenly Fred And His Incredible Shrinking Grateful Airplanes, right? So I think he got influenced by that and came up with this idea for the Beatles. | „ |
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—John Lennon, 1980 |
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| “ | It was an idea I had, I think, when I was flying from L.A. to somewhere. I thought it would be nice to lose our identities, to submerge ourselves in the persona of a fake group. We would make up all the culture around it and collect all our heroes in one place. So I thought, A typical stupid-sounding name for a Dr. Hook's Medicine Show and Traveling Circus kind of thing would be 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.' Just a word game, really." | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, 1984 |
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| “ | We were fed up with being Beatles. We really hated that fucking four little mop-top boys approach. We were not boys, we were men. It was all gone, all that boy shit, all that screaming, we didn't want anymore, plus, we'd now got turned on to pot and thought of ourselves as artists rather than just performers... then suddenly on the plane I got this idea. I thought, 'Let's not be ourselves. Let's develop alter egos so we're not having to project an image which we know. It would be much more free.' | „ |
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—Paul McCartney, 1994 |
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