Yep, it's been a whole half century since the Beatles' classic album came out and arguably changed the face of pop music, if not that of popular culture itself. It's hard to imagine if you weren't there at the time what an impact this piece of vinyl had on the world. ( I was 6 months old at the time so wasn't too aware of it... ) Their previous album, Revolver, may have been more innovative, their first step into the unknown, but Sergeant Pepper was The One - the concept album that sound-tracked the Summer Of Love ( baby! ) and brought the world such amazing songs as Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, When I'm Sixty-Four, A Little Help From My Friends and, of course, A Day In The Life. I think I'm contractually obliged to use the phrase "acid-drenched" at this point...
I'm old enough to remember my mother buying it when it was new! Of course it didn't mean much to me until the following year, when the Yellow Submarine film came out and I could relate to the eponymous band as cartoon characters being impersonated by the Beatles...but after that I fell in love and have been listening to it ever since.
ReplyDeleteI have this weird urge to buy it, even though I already own two copies of it.
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ReplyDeleteIt must have been fantastic to be part of those times - a landmark in popular culture.
@Steve
I know what you mean. I've got the album on vinyl and CD but I was seriously eyeing up the new special edition of it in HMV yesterday...
Well, I have expressed my anger at the cost of the new 6 disc set on several blogs! As a loyal fan who has already bought this 4 times already, I expected a better deal!
ReplyDeleteI had to settle for the 2 disc!
:-(
Beatles albums are always ridiculously over-priced so I'm not that surprised. Surely they make enough money off these endless re-packagings that the prices can be lowered to make them more accessible to most people?
ReplyDeleteThey are forcing people to look towards non-legal methods of obtaining these tracks by expecting fans to pay £110 for 6 discs in this day and age!
DeleteAnd MacCa's solo super deluxe packages can be even worse! -£140 for Flowers In The Dirt!!
Grrr!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01MG5AHLP/ref=pe_2443691_199212841_em_1p_0_im
ReplyDeleteWell, Simon, EMI can keep their £110 box set! - Amazon sent me an email "You may be interested in the above?"
Too right, I was!!
BTW, was that a real strat you had or a Squire?
ReplyDeleteHa ha, I wish! Both my guitar and amp came out of the Kay's catalogue ( remember them? ) so were pretty poor quality.
ReplyDeleteYes, I remember them, the missus had one, so it would have been a Squire.
DeleteActually, some of those copies were pretty good! I used to have an Antoria Les Paul copy and it was a beauty! Especially through a Shaftsbury fuzz box! Speaking of which, both Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne used to play nowt else BUT Shaftsburys in the early seventies! My mate had one, but my Antoria was better to play and sounded better!