Comments on: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

By: Mr. Kite

Mr. Kite — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 18:42:20 +0000

Do the Beatles sing “cheese” in the bridge to “Little Help”?

By: Teddy Salad

Teddy Salad — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 21:06:25 +0000

Apple Records said…? In 1965? To paraphrase from above, getting the facts straight is important if you want your comments to be taken seriously.

That said, I also heard that it was originally called Dr. Pepper’s LHCB, but that the band had NEVER EVEN HEARD of the American drink and it was changed to avoid legal trouble. Chances are, neither story is right.

By: dgw28

dgw28 — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 22:57:15 +0000

Sebastian, eight years late, sorry, but reading this thread, I really appreciated how you tried to explain your position with dignity against the pretty spiteful tone of Mr Brush. Thank you for your detailed analysis.

By: John Pepper

John Pepper — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:49:35 +0000

You’ve got it! According to Emerick, John played bass in the rhythm track.

(Just like they did with Fixing a Hole – which originally had John on bass, George on maracas, Paul and G. Martin on the harpsichord and Ringo on drums).

By: Sgt. Pepper 67

Sgt. Pepper 67 — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 01:31:41 +0000

Ringo sings vocals during the bridge

By: nickotina

nickotina — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 21:19:00 +0000

Hi, I read about this “rare studio outtake” with some additional lead guitar parts during the horns overdub.
However, with the release of the super deluxe edition it’s very hard to find that video on YouTube (there’s tons of rare outtakes out there now!).

Does anybody know what that was? I’m really curious to hear it!

By: Ted A Sobel

Ted A Sobel — Tue, 09 May 2017 00:58:47 +0000

This is the REAL story of how the Beatles got the name Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart's Club Band--from the L.A. Radio legend Dave Hull---AKA '5th Beatle' (a nickname he never liked). Check out this video and his story about this specifically starts at about the 4 minute mark. Enjoy!

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 23 Apr 2017 02:16:15 +0000

I beg to differ. Message boards are meant to share ideas and information. Perfect spelling would be nice but why shy away from creating a comment if you can’t spell the exact word you need to state your thought precisely? This is a message board not the Scripps Spelling Bee.

By: Mary Davis

Mary Davis — Sun, 16 Apr 2017 21:08:45 +0000

And… I think you are wrong. Spelling matters because it is communication – the purpose (ostensibly) for you writing in the first place. The easier something is to read, the better chance readers will linger, think, comment and contribute – isn’t that the purpose of having comment boards in the first place?

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 13:20:24 +0000

Darren-You nailed it! Thanks.

By: John Pepper

John Pepper — Sun, 06 Nov 2016 00:31:45 +0000

George Martin is playing organ on this song. 0:22-0:42 for example. It’s sort of whacking along with the bassline, but in the left-middle channel. It drops out during the orchestral break and returns afterwards. Also, the last chord (1:58–)

By: John Leper

John Leper — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 15:44:49 +0000

There’s actually a whole lot of guitars on this one. The lead guitar solo in the intro was played by Harrison (who plays rhythm, right channel).
The lead guitar in the left in the intro, barely audible, is definitely Paul. There’s a third guitar, played by Paul, playing rhythm throughout the song (mixed between the middle and left channel).
There’s some lead guitar overdubs, by McCartney, and finally, Lennon appears to be playing rhythm as well (only heard on some isolated tracks).

By: greg

greg — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 20:10:57 +0000

I recently heard Jimi Hendrix’s “Love or Confusion” from the BBC album, and it was broadcast before SPLHCB. The Beatles took his riff and changed it a little

By: Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro — Wed, 25 May 2016 18:39:29 +0000

There are 3 guitars. One is the lead guitar solo in the intro, very distorted. The other is a rhythimc guitar more treble tuned. And there is the third which is low-tuned , accompanying the bass notes.

By: DarrenS

DarrenS — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 16:15:51 +0000

Sorry Joe. Request withdrawn. You are absolutely correct. My apologies.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 14:00:29 +0000

Actually, I’d really prefer it if this discussion could be kept to Sgt Pepper, rather than discussing one person’s opinions on McCartney. Otherwise this comments section risks going even more off-topic than it already has. Thanks.

By: DarrenS

DarrenS — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:51:25 +0000

Johan – Could you please name one song, song fragment, or any other thing related to the Beatles that was Paul McCartney’s creation that you like? I’m just curious. You don’t like Yesterday, you think Hey Jude and Let It Be are boring, and you comment in virtually every song about how the good parts must have been John’s contribution.

The song (which this page is about) is a nice little song, with a great lead part and a nice rock and roll vocal. Personal opinion, of course.

And I’m not a stalker, but sometimes it’s hard to read certain things and just grin and bear it.

By: Johan cavalli

Johan cavalli — Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:42:48 +0000

The Beatles most overrated album. The reason why it became so famous is this, as I see it. The establishment and the elder generation didn´t discover The Beatles when they made their breakthrough in 1963.It was the youth. The Beatle music was too bluesy or expressive for the elder. The establishment and the elder generation preferred pop music resembling Irwing Berlin´s songs in the 1930s. But then came McCartney´s Yesterday 1965, a song without drums, and with strings. Now the establishment and the elder generation “discovered” The Beatles. They – not the youth — controled the media and got the prerogative. The establishment didn´t know that Lennon was the dominant composer 1963-1965, and judged McCartney to the “Composer in The Beatles”. After Yesterday the establishment followed the Beatles albums with more and more interest. But actually, they only understood the ballads in the albums. So it was a natural development that the establishment´s interest was very high, when the album Sgt Pepper was released 1 June 1967. And the critics or the establishment became so enthusiastic! Or, they believed they must be enthusiastic?
But the critic Richard Goldstein in New York Times was not impressed, it´s “ a soft and messy piece of work” and “there is nothing beautiful on Sgt. Pepper”.
I think there are too many mediocre McCartney compositions, and too few exciting or daring Lennon compositions, even though Lennon´s compositions here are the best – most of A Day In The Life, Being For Mr. Kite and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds. Two songs are among the worst songs Beatles have ever made: The title track, and Lovely Rita. When the work with the album was almost finished, they recorded a Harrison composition It´s All Too Much, very good. It would have been much better as the title song. The problem with McCartney´s compositions is that they cannot age, opposed to Lennon´s music that always is growing. And that despite McCartney´s and George Martin´s ever PR for the album. In the book The Mammut Book Of The Beatles, from the year 2000, Sean Egan writes about Sgt Pepper: The album has fallen down the esteem scale, in recent years.
I think the melodies in the album A Hard Day´s Night from 1964 are both more innovative and powerful, without symphony orchestra. 10 of the 13 songs are composed by Lennon.

By: Solomon

Solomon — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:50:38 +0000

I always played around with the idea that Sgt Pepper started off as ‘salt and pepper’, which became ‘sultan pepper’, and morphed into sergeant pepper.

By: John Pepper

John Pepper — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 03:09:25 +0000

The Beatles from their inception were a British Intelligence asset. John Arthur Reed Pepper was “Sgt. Pepper”. He was in reality the head of British Security Coordination, the MI6 cover organization run by The British Passport Control Office in New York City. It was part of Winston Churchill’s and US plan to “to mobilize pro-British opinion in the US.” The CIA and British Intelligence were in control of EMI records in the US and Britain. They used these pop groups to spread bourgeois mass culture and divert people and angry anti-war protesters, especially Communists/Socialists, away from social action and towards self gratification, individual concerns, personal stories about love and Solipsism (Buddhism).

John Lennon wanted out so he and the CIA/British Intelligence and the media faked his death. Lennon is alive, most likely in Ontario. They made a film called Let Him Be, produced by the CIA, because he blew his cover. But it backfired.