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andy-hughes | 12:49 Mon 11th Mar 2024 | Music
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A recent TV documentary about this album prompted me to play it again, after a long absence.

Given the limited (four tracks!) recording equipment and editing facilities available at the time, re-listening only re-enforces my view held since I first heard the album - 

This is a work of genius on all levels.

No wonder on Rolling Stone Magazine's list of the Top One Hundred Albums, it is Number One.

Anyone else as big a fan as I am? 

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Yes - it's great. I like all the Beatles later stuff. I think the big change came with Rubber Soul - not to everyone's taste but a distinct departure from their earlier rock & roll. 

No.Too phsychedelic. I bought the LP for my wife though and her brother is quite the authority on the Beatles. He went into purdah for about a month when Lennon was assassinated. The only song I liked was Eleanor Rigby. Must of been the violins.

I didn't buy it. I could have gone to see The Beatles in 1962 at our local Co-op Hall for 1/6. I bought a ticket but none of my mates would go, so I sold it to one of my sisters' friends. Hey ho! I bought lots of Beatles stuff in the early years but I didn't particularly like Sgt Peppers, so didn't buy it. Having said that, I've got three copies of it here; one belonging to Mrs Clarion; one that was my sisters' and one that was my brothers'. I never played it and couldn't tell you all of the tracks, only a couple. I don't think I missed anything.

Not really (Revolver was my favourite) but when I was a student surrounded by intellectuals (which I'm not) that and the double white album were THE albums to admire.

Agree with Prudie re the Revolver album. That said Sgt P wasn't far behind. Brilliant both of them.

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Once The Beatles knew that they would never have to write songs with a view to playing them on stage, the sky was the limit. 

And boy did they reach for it !

possibly the best known album ever issued anywhere, any time, by anyone. So eclectic too. They could have had a hit singing the phone book (and did singing a circus poster).

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Pure genius. It never ages, it never looses it's appeal.

I saw Paul McCartney and Bono sing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band at Live 8.  I seem to remember that at the time it was said the backing band were wearing the original suits - not sure if that is just a fact that has got lost in the mists of time though.

Rubber Soul for me   ...   just. Sgt Pepper probably had a more immediate effect on issue, and I still play the following track in the car on my Ipod, but somehow Rubber Soul takes me back to where it all began and I am in Tiko in Newcastle U Lyme holding the brand new L.P.  "I'm Looking Through You"  was how I felt as a 17yr old who had just realised that it I needn't do as everyone else wanted me to. I still put on Abbey Rd, Sgt Pep, Rubber Soul and The White Album(occasionaly). I play this for fun and it is the remastered version.

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Seeing as how I mentioned the track. It is here. Again the Remastered version. Incidently they did a great job, and saved the tracks as they were; for posterity; when they did the hard grind of remastering the Beatles tracks. Recommended.

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Togo - The Tiko in Newcastle, was that the one near the bus station?

Yes. 

It was closed down and moved to the Sheridan shopping centre in the 70s(I think) after I had moved to N. Wales. The bus stops were further up towards the May Bank roundabout then and I think Tiko was on Hassel St. 

Stewie from Canada would remember. He was born and raised thereabouts. Wonder how he is. 

Nah,their best LPs were Greatest Hits-1962-1966 and Greatest Hits -1967-1970.Two Double LPs,both crammed full of the best music ever made.

I saw The Beatles perform live twice - once  in Bradford when they had just begun (my then husband saw them in Bradford when they were a warm-up group for Roy Orbison ) and the second time in Manchester.  This was quite a trip with my sister and friend and we'd all had to save-up!

Sis and I used to order the albums to arrive by post after the early ones.  I remember being a bit disappointed by Sgt. Pepper.  It grew on me, but then their music went a bit weird.  I loved and still love 'Eleanor Rigby'.  Did you know that the lyrics for that are (or were) included in GCSE poetry?

Like others 'Rubber Soul' was my favourite.

I'm siding with others here, and am split between Revolver and Rubber Soul.

I just listened to a track called Dr Robert...and have no recollection of it. ?? Too many other memorable ones.

I don't think it's the best Beatles album musically, but it's the most important and groundbreaking one.

Another track from Rubber Soul that still means something to all who were there in the 60s. 

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