Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play

Those were the days...




I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Amazing...

45 years. Jesus...

What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

I remember in 1987 there was a UK tv documentary about the Sgt Pepper Album, it was called "It Was 20 Years Ago Today". That was 25 years ago... how time flies

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I remember in 1987 there was a UK tv documentary about the Sgt Pepper Album, it was called "It Was 20 Years Ago Today". That was 25 years ago... how time flies

Me too, I won my first CD (sgt pepper) from Swedish Radio Broadcast...they had a quiz and you should tell how many Yeah there is in 'It won't be long'...I won...

so already 1987 I bought my first CD-player....those were days...

Released as a single. In 1978. Way to strike while the iron's hot guys.

Who cares for this. Not me....

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Who cares for this. Not me....

I cares for this. Me.

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Me too, I won my first CD (sgt pepper) from Swedish Radio Broadcast...they had a quiz and you should tell how many Yeah there is in 'It won't be long'...I won...

so how many? now you've made us all curious

Sgt. Pepper: 39 minutes of direct-injection mainlined nirvana.

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Who cares for this. Not me....

I cares for this. Me.

I cares too.

Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

I'm glad they were left off. Though that's what you did at the time.
What I find fascinating is that at ages 24-26 (ages of the Fabs at the time of Pepper, unbelievable, really) they were already reminiscing about childhood (which seems to be a theme in UK psychedelia). Maybe I did, too, at that age. I certainly do now.

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

Very cool and very happy for you. I've never been to UK, and would love to go. Perhaps next year.

Have toured through the continent though, on a Eurorail pass for two months 25 years ago this summer. A year after Dirty Work and it was a lull in my love for the Stones.

Have a great trip Tele.

BTW, leaving Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane a bit like leaving off We Love You/Dandelion/Child of the Moon off TSMR or JJF off Beggar's or HTW off LIB.

Would never happen today.

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Released as a single. In 1978. Way to strike while the iron's hot guys.

wonder if they released this as a single to coincide with the movie, which was also released in '78.

I know I'm in the minority, but I really loved the movie lol
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"Doctor please, some more men please,
To Cotchford Farm, out by the pool...

What a drag it is they couldn't revive him"

Brian Jones 2/28/42 - 7/2/69

They actually started a release campaign of Beatles picture sleeves. It was amazing how many re-charted and some great new singles, like Birthday. That was when vinyl was still the master and 45s were stuff collectable.

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

Very cool and very happy for you. I've never been to UK, and would love to go. Perhaps next year.

Have toured through the continent though, on a Eurorail pass for two months 25 years ago this summer. A year after Dirty Work and it was a lull in my love for the Stones.

Have a great trip Tele.

BTW, leaving Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane a bit like leaving off We Love You/Dandelion/Child of the Moon off TSMR or JJF off Beggar's or HTW off LIB.

Would never happen today.

Those Eurorail passes were the bomb. Do they still have those?

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

I'm glad they were left off. Though that's what you did at the time.
What I find fascinating is that at ages 24-26 (ages of the Fabs at the time of Pepper, unbelievable, really) they were already reminiscing about childhood (which seems to be a theme in UK psychedelia). Maybe I did, too, at that age. I certainly do now.

You can feel old at any age. Mick wrote As Tears Go By when he was 20.



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Released as a single. In 1978. Way to strike while the iron's hot guys.

wonder if they released this as a single to coincide with the movie, which was also released in '78.

I know I'm in the minority, but I really loved the movie lol
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I'm sure that's true, and yes, you are in the minority.

Here's the B-side, btw. The single bombed, peaking at #71. How could it not? 1978 was the year of disco.






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They actually started a release campaign of Beatles picture sleeves. It was amazing how many re-charted and some great new singles, like Birthday. That was when vinyl was still the master and 45s were stuff collectable.

They did release a few "new" singles in the 70s, but only Got To Get You Into My Life was any kind of hit, peaking at #7 in 1976. GTGYIMY (with Helter Skelter as the B-side) was released to promote the peculiar "Rock 'n' Roll Music" compilation. Later on in '76, Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, the White Album's "single that never was" was, for no apparent reason, finally released as a single, (B-side Julia) and peaked at #49.



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Yeah, I didn't say they were hits, but it is amazing they were charting when they from albums long since released. Some cool picture sleeves too...

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Me too, I won my first CD (sgt pepper) from Swedish Radio Broadcast...they had a quiz and you should tell how many Yeah there is in 'It won't be long'...I won...

so how many? now you've made us all curious

Hrmmm was it 58 was it? Hard to remember after 25 years....

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

Very cool and very happy for you. I've never been to UK, and would love to go. Perhaps next year.

Have toured through the continent though, on a Eurorail pass for two months 25 years ago this summer. A year after Dirty Work and it was a lull in my love for the Stones.

Have a great trip Tele.

BTW, leaving Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane a bit like leaving off We Love You/Dandelion/Child of the Moon off TSMR or JJF off Beggar's or HTW off LIB.

Would never happen today.

Those Eurorail passes were the bomb. Do they still have those?

Eurorail doesn't work in the U.K. You need a BritRail pass. I actually paid less buying point-to-point tickets, but tell me this: Why is Manchester to Liverpool 11 pounds, but Liverpool to Birmingham (much farther with fewer stops) 9 pounds?

Funny, I don't remember this coming out.

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Who cares for this. Not me....

I cares for this. Me.

I cares too.

Cares is to be spelled without s - should be "I care".

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Hard to believe that Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane were left OFF this album so they could be "saved" for a single! This would never happen today.

I was just in Liverpool for the first time. The shop of the "barber taking photographs" is still there (different owners though). It really was emotional for me to see these places.

Very cool and very happy for you. I've never been to UK, and would love to go. Perhaps next year.

Have toured through the continent though, on a Eurorail pass for two months 25 years ago this summer. A year after Dirty Work and it was a lull in my love for the Stones.

Have a great trip Tele.

BTW, leaving Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane a bit like leaving off We Love You/Dandelion/Child of the Moon off TSMR or JJF off Beggar's or HTW off LIB.

Would never happen today.

Those Eurorail passes were the bomb. Do they still have those?

Eurorail doesn't work in the U.K. You need a BritRail pass. I actually paid less buying point-to-point tickets, but tell me this: Why is Manchester to Liverpool 11 pounds, but Liverpool to Birmingham (much farther with fewer stops) 9 pounds?

Nobody wants to go to Birmingham.

You might have to scrape me off the floor at the end of the tour, but it'll be really good scrapings. - Mick Jagger

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Who cares for this. Not me....

I cares for this. Me.

I cares too.

Cares is to be spelled without s - should be "I care".

Gee, thanks for the English lesson! Because I never would have known how to properly write "I care"..

It should have been obvious that I was making a playful response to the other two posters, if you read the previous quoted posts.

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Nobody wants to go to Birmingham.

After having been there, I can see why. Thankfully it was only one night.

There was also a peculiar rerelease campaign in the UK in the 80s where several key Beatles singles were released after 20 years. Note also the chart placing of "Baby It's You"--no. 7 in 1995, probably to coincide with the BBC compilation.

www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2009/sep/09/beatles-albums-singles-music-rock-band



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