Side note: “Younger & Dumber” was on Obama’s year-end favorite songs list. Are we meant to believe he is also a fan of long emo walks?? 4. boygenius –the rest3. boygenius –the record Julien, Phoebe, and Lucy really did the indie world a gigantic favor by reuniting and puttin...
A few years earlier, Stigwood had produced aBroadway adaptationofSgt Pepper's. The movie took the stage production as a jumping-off point and expanded on it. The plot, what little there was of one, is told via Beatles songs – not justSgt. Pepper's tracks, but a selection of hits fr...
1970:US album release: McCartney by Paul McCartney 1969:Recording, mixing: I Want You (She’s So Heavy), Oh! Darling 1966:Recording, mixing: And Your Bird Can Sing, Taxman 1965:Filming: Help! 1964:Mixing: A Hard Day’s Night 1964:Filming: Paul McCartney’s unused sc...
He asked the others to list their choices for the photographs; the original list, complete with misspellings, was given to Fraser and Blake: Yoga’s; Marquis de Sade; Hitler; Neitch; Lenny Bruce; Lord Buckley; Alistair Crowley; Dylan Thomas; James Joyce; Oscar Wilde; William Burroughs; Robe...
and a paradigm-shifter in terms of what albums could do. Most albums before that were essentially collections of singles. The idea of a concept album – in which all the songs were unified symphonically, all pieces fitting together to form a whole – was rare pre-Pepper. Sinatra’s smoky...
Within the track list on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, only a few songs explicitly reference the alter ego concept. In the opening track, McCartney introduces the Beatles as “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and refers to the band’s fictional leader, a character called...