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Sgt. Pepper
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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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.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.
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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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.