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Category Archives: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

Senaste nytt om Sgt.Pepper-spelningen hos Lasse i Parken 30/6 2017!

Posted on 22 juni, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Konserter, Nyheter, Nytt i BIC, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Nu är det bara 8 dagar kvar till 50-årsfirandet av albumet Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band hos Lasse i Parken på Södermalm i Stockholm med

GRAND OLD SOFTIES + FRIDA ÖHRN + LITTLE MISS LONELY + OLLE NILSSON

Redan den 27 mars 2017 skrev vi om det kommande Beatlesevenemanget hos Lasse i Parken fredagen den 30 juni 2017. Sedan dess har man kompletterat artistsidan med bl.a. Frida Öhrn!

Frida Öhrn

Frida Öhrn kommer och sjunger Beatleslåtar från 1967!

Olle Nilsson från Beatlestributebandet Liverpool sjunger även han Beatleslåtar från 1967!

Little Miss Lonely sjunger mer än gärna fantastiska Beatleslåtar från 1967!

Tid: Fredagen den 30 juni 2017
Insläpp: Kl. 17.00
Konsert: Från kl. 19.00
Förköp: 200 SEK
Biljetter i dörren: 250 SEK

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Paul berättar om Jimi Hendrix version av Sgt. Pepper!

Posted on 16 juni, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Film/Video, Nyheter, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Bildresultat för jimi hendrix and Sgt. Pepper

 

Paul McCartney var närvarande på London Saville Theatre den 4 juni 1967 när Jimi Hendrix spelade. Jimi passade på att hedra The Beatles med att framförda ett ruffigt gitarrarrangemang av låten Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Och detta bara några dagar efter det att The Beatles hade släppt sitt ikoniska album.

Ytterligare några dagar efter konserten rekommenderade Paul McCartney att Jimi Hendrix borde ingå bland de artister som skulle uppträda på Montereyfestivalen i Kalifornien, USA. McCartneys förslag föll i god jord och på Montereyfestivalen spelade – förutom de redan bokade artisterna – Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buffalo Springfield, The Grateful Dead och Otis Redding.

På festivalen introducerades Jimi Hendrix Experience av självaste Brian Jones från The Rolling Stones. Jimi intog scenen i en räfflad orangefärgad skjorta, röda byxor, en psykedelisk jacka (som hade designats av Mick Jaggers bror Chris!) och en rosafärgad fjäderboa runt halsen och stal hela showen inför en totalt överraskad och förbluffad publik.

Nedan berättar Paul historien om Jimi Hendrix version av Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band och lite till.

 

Paul McCartney svarar på frågor om Sgt. Pepper-albumet!

Posted on 5 juni, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Musik/Skivutgivningar, Nyheter, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Ett av världens mest omtalade skivkonvolut sedan det kom ut den 1 juni 1967.

Med anledning av 50-årsjubileumet av Sgt.Pepper-albumet har Paul McCartney låtit sig intervjuas om tillkomsten av och arbetet med albumet. Här följer några axplock ut intervjun som går under namnet Sgt. Pepper Special. En mer utförlig intervju går att läsa i höstnumret av Beatles Nytt.

Question [Q:] Do you remember coming up with the cover and band concepts? We understand that the original concept came from you doing a doodle on a plane based around an Edwardian military band?

Paul McCartney [PM]: Yeah! Well, what really happened was I was coming back from a trip abroad with our roadie, Mal Evans, just the two of us together on the plane. And we were eating and he mumbled to me, asked me to pass the salt and pepper. And I misheard him. He said [mumbles] “saltandpepper”. I go, “Sergeant Pepper?” I thought he said, “Sergeant Pepper”. I went, “Oh! Wait a minute, that’s a great idea!” So we had a laugh about it, then I started thinking about Sergeant Pepper as a character. I thought it would be a very interesting idea for us to assume alter egos for this album we were about to make.

Bildresultat för mal evans and sgt. pepper

Ringo Starr, Mal Evans (i glasögon) och John Lennon i samspråk i samband med fotograferingen av omslaget till Sgt. Pepper-albumet torsdagen den 30 mars 1967.

So that’s what we did. And yeah, I started doing drawings of how the band might look. I sort of got this military look thing going and one of my ideas was that they were being presented by the Lord Mayor of some Northern town in a park. And in the old days they used to have floral clocks, they called them. It was like a clock that was made out of flowers. So I did drawings of the floral clock and then, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”, AKA The Beatles, getting an award. So they’ve got a big cup and they’re getting some sort of award from the town.

So that’s where the idea came from and then I just talked to all the guys and said, “What do you think of this idea?” They liked it and I said, “It will mean, when I approach the mic, it’s not Paul McCartney. I don’t have to think this is a Paul McCartney song”. So it was freeing. It was quite liberating.

So, you know, we didn’t keep that idea up all the time, but that was the basic idea that we would make something that was very free. Something that this other band might make, instead of doing something that we thought The Beatles ought to make. It originally came from that mishearing of salt and pepper!

 

Q: Had you already started to write the songs for that album?

PM: No, but when I got back I started thinking, “Okay, what would their theme tune be?” So I wrote what became the opening song where they would introduce themselves and then they would introduce another character: Billy Shears, which was Ringo.

 

Q: Was there any reason for the different coloured outfits?

PM: No, we just chose a material. Said, “I’ll have that, he’ll have that”. There was no concept, no. It was just whoever wanted what colour.

 

Q: We understand there were two drum skins created for the cover. Was there any specific reason for that, or was it just to make sure you had different options?

PM: No, I think the drum skins – as I recall – were organised by Peter Blake, who had someone he knew who did painting for fairgrounds. So you see the rides in the fairgrounds – like the Waltzer, or you know, the House Of Fun and all that – it’s always lettered and painted a certain way, which is quite an ancient tradition, apparently. There’s a specific look to it all and there are people who specialise in those, so I think Peter had those done by those people, and I suppose he just had a spare one made as well. I think we probably would have just said, “That one”.

 

Q: We realised in the office that there are some grammar mistakes on the drum skin: a semicolon after ‘Sgt’, and there isn’t an apostrophe in ‘Peppers’. Is that just an accident?

PM: Yeah, that’s an accident! The guy doing it was, as I say, a fairground guy, so all this sort of stuff [Paul points to the logo on the album cover] – the filigree and all these decorative things – are the kind of things you would see on the side of a Waltzer, when you go to the fairground. It’s covered in this kind of stuff.

So I think he will have just been told “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, and instead of putting a dot after the ‘gt’ of ‘Sgt.’ – which I think you might naturally do – I think it just looks better as a composition to be down there. And there’s no particular reason for it being a semi colon. It could have just as easily been two dots, or something. And then no apostrophe? There’s no reason for it. He was asked to do that and he came up with that beautiful design.

Bildresultat för sgt pepper drum skinBildresultat för sgt pepper drum skin

 

 

Två varianter av trumskinn som diskuterades. Det till höger är det som finns med på skivkonvolutet.

 

 

Q: Was there anybody who kind of didn’t make the final collage on the cover?

PM: Oh, yeah! I mean, some, because it was just a fun thing. You know, I think someone brought Hitler. And that was vetoed immediately: “No!” And then Jesus was in there. You know, he was an understandable hero. But there were certain ones that might have offended people.
I mean, Hitler, I think was just a joke. No way he was gonna get on there. Jesus was not so much a joke. He could have been in there but we didn’t want to offend Christians.

 

Q: Do you remember any specific names you suggested?

PM: [Looking at the album cover] I think these were mine: Aldous Huxley, because I had been reading a book by him. H.G. Wells, Fred Astaire. And then there was Dylan Thomas.

There’s a footballer there, I think that’s Dixie Dean. I mean this is all documented exactly who they are. Laurel and Hardy, we liked them. William Morris, Marilyn Monroe, Terry Southern. This is what the floral clock became at the bottom of the cover. And then people thought this was marijuana, which they weren’t. They were just plants! But, of course, in those days everyone read everything into everything we did.

There were certain ones we all liked, like Oscar Wilde. Max Miller was a British comedian. And then there’s Stuart [Sutcliffe], who had been our old bass player, who died. Aubrey Beardsley, the artist. The Bowery Boys, they were a TV series when we were growing up, and there was one of them who wouldn’t do it. One of them wanted money for it.

 

Q: Did that delay the album release?

PM: No. No the cover wasn’t shot. We had the idea… Or it may have been, it may have been actually. Yeah, I think it was shot, but we just had to ask them all.

 

Q: Would you pick different people for the cover today, compared to 1967?

PM: I’m not sure. You know probably, yeah. But just because it wouldn’t be the same time.

Paul, Ringo, George och John gratulerar varandra till att ha åstadkommit ett av världens bästa popalbum på releasepartyt fredagen den 19 maj 1967 hemma hos deras manager Brian Epstein i London.

Q: At the end of the album – following ‘A Day In The Life’ – you have that very high-pitched tone. And then you have the inner groove loop on the record. Where did those ideas come from?

PM: Okay, so the loop thing was that at that time people were partying a lot and getting stoned a lot. And one of the things is you would be in a party with everyone, you’d be playing an album on vinyl and so the record would end. But everybody would be so sort of stoned that the record would just go [mimics the noise of the record player getting stuck in the inner groove]. You’ve all been there! And people would go, “Ahhh… Yeah…” And no one would turn it off!

 

Q: And no one had done that kind of inner groove loop before, is that right?

PM: Yeah, nobody had done it on a loop like that. It’s a silly idea. No one was as silly as we were! But the other thing, that was fascinating: the high-pitched noise [whistles]. We would have great conversations with George Martin in the studio, because he was very swotty, George was. Very mathematics, and he knew the science behind a lot of what we were doing, whereas we didn’t. We just enjoyed it and loved it. But he was talking about frequencies. He said, “There are so many frequencies”. For instance, he said, “Your ears are all younger than mine”. He said, “Let’s do a little test’. So he took a little oscillator that we had and went [whistles from a low to high pitch]. And he got it up to [whistles very high]. And he said, “Can you hear that?” We go, “Yeah…” He goes [whistles higher]. He said, “I can’t hear that, can you?” We go, “Yeah!”

Then he took it higher so even we couldn’t hear it and said, “It’s still there”. The noise, the frequency was still there. He said, “Dogs can hear that. Dogs have a different framework, a different range of hearing”. We went, “Fantastic! We’ve gotta put that on the record!” So when suddenly when everyone’s listening to it, no one can hear it and the dog would perk up. You know, prick his ears up: “What’s that?”

 

Q: And George Martin told you that story?

PM: Yeah, George Martin. This was all one conversation: “The Highs And The Lows” by George Martin. But you know, we took it all in. We loved him. We loved these little chats and we used it all in our music.

 

Q: I’ve always wondered if you guys slowed down ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ because your voice sounds slightly higher?

PM: Sometimes I would just speed things up a bit. Often, when you make a song you record it and then you think, “It’s not quite fast enough!” So rather than do it again, you just lifted the tape. These days you can lift the tape and not lift the pitch, with Logic and a few other machines. But back then you would actually lift the pitch a bit.

Brian Epstein hade bjudit in utvalda personer från media till sitt hem på 24 Chappel Street i London fredagen den 19 maj 1967. Avsikten var att – tillsammans med The Beatles – göra reklam för The Beatles kommande album ’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, som skulle släppas torsdagen den 1 juni samma år. Här håller Paul och John upp fram- och baksidan av skivkonvolutet i bästa PR-stil under överseende av Ringo och George!

Q: So another question we quite often see is, in hindsight, do you wish ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields’ had been included on the album? And if so, where would you have placed them?

PM: No, I was happy. So we won’t even get into placing them! I was happy that it was the precursor to ‘Sgt. Pepper’. And the thing was, you know, we always liked to release things fresh. We had just made those tracks, so the thought of waiting until we had completed the whole album would not have appealed to us. You know, we liked that as soon as it’s made, at the nearest point to the actual making of the song and the record, we would like to put it out. So I was glad how we did it and it was like a fanfare, that single. Another thing we liked about it was it was simple value for money. You really got two A-sides. But it kind of heralded what was to come.

 

Q: Another question we see is: Did you have any kind of idea at the time just how big this album would become?

PM: No, not really. The only thing we knew was that the music press, I’m not sure who it was – it would probably have been The New Music Express or The Melody Maker, the two music papers that were very big at the time – one of them, somebody from one of those music papers said, “Oh, The Beatles have dried up. They’ve finished. We haven’t heard anything from them, you know, they’ve run out of ideas”. So we were quietly tinkering away at Abbey Road knowing we hadn’t run out of ideas and knowing it was gonna be really great to be able to say, “No, we didn’t run out. Check this out!” And give them ‘Sgt. Pepper’ and go – “Take that back!”

In fact, when it did get released, the music critic from The New York Times said it was terrible. And Linda said she met him in the street and said, “You’re crazy, man. It’s a great album! What are you talking about?” And there must have been a lot of people that said it to him that week, because he took it back a week later. He said, “You know what, it’s grown on me. I like it’.

 

Q: And looking back now, what always blows our minds, is that you were only 24 when that album was recorded. That’s quite incredible!

PM: Yeah, I mean there’s quite a few people who feel they’re very grown up when they’re 24. And we did! We’d been doing the group since, well, since we were kinda 19 and 20. So four years at that kind of pace was a long time. And we all smoked Rothman cigarettes. And we had Carnaby Street stuff, so we thought we were pretty hot. So 24 didn’t seem young to us, because we had just been 20!

 

 

Nu är den här! SGT.PEPPER’S Special Anniversary Edition

Posted on 26 maj, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Film/Video, Musik/Skivutgivningar, Nyheter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Så har det ÄNTLIGEN blivit fredagen den 26 maj 2017 – då The Beatles mest spektakulära skivsläpp äger rum world wide med anledning av att albumet Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band firar 50 år!

Giles Martin, Sir George Martins son, är mannen bakom den nya remixen av ’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Det är ju det vi hoppas – att jubileumsutgåvan av Sgt. Pepper-albumet ska falla oss Beatlesfans både på läppen och överraska våra öron med nya hörselintryck som vi inte kunde njuta av för 50 år sedan.

Nedan hittar du några bilder på alla de olika formaten som släpps idag av albumet Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

 

Här är de fem olika formaten av ’Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’  som släpps den 26 maj 2017

Så här kunde mittuppslaget i 1967 års utgåva av ’Sgt. Pepper’ ha sett ut, men man valde i stället en bild där alla tittade rakt in i kameran. Här är en alternativ bild av Ringo, John, Paul och George i sina fantastiska uniformer.

The Beatles är tillbaka i Chiswick House and Gardens

Posted on 24 maj, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Film/Video, Nyheter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Clifton Nurseries var de som tillhandahöll alla blomsterarrangemang som var med på omslagsbilden till albumet Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967.

Nu – 50 år senare och i samarbete med Gavin Jones Ltd. – har de återskapat en blomsterlevande Sgt.Pepper-installation, vilken är placerad i Chiswick House and Gardens. Det var här som The Beatles spelade in videorna till låtarna Paperback Writer och Rain den 20 maj 1966 under ledning av regissören Michael Lindsey-Hogg.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band i blomsterskrud i Chiswick House and Gardens, London 2017

Sverigepremiär den 1 juni på film om Sgt. Pepper!

Posted on 23 maj, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Film/Video, Nyheter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Det mest inflytelserika albumet i pophistorien, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, firar i år 50-årsjubileum den 1 juni. Detta kommer att firas på flera ställen i landet och på många olika sätt.

Ett sätt att fira 50 år med Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band är att ta del av filmen It Was Fifty Years Ago Today. The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper And Beyond, som har premiär på olika biografer i landet just på den aktuella 50-årsdagen den 1 juni 2017.

Dokumentären, som har premiär i England en knapp vecka före den svenska premiären, den 26 maj (samma dag som jubileumsutgåvan av albumet Sgt.Pepper’s  Lonely Hearts Club Band släpps), är en Beatlesfrossa av såväl sällsynt arkivmaterial som nyinspelade intervjuer. Vi får följa det legendariska popbandet mellan 1966 och 1967, när de jobbade med  Sgt. Pepper-albumet i studion på Abbey Road. Detta är en film om The Beatles och skivan som återuppfann rocken, och inledde 60-talets musikaliska revolution.

Tidningen Rolling Stone har som bekant utnämt Sgt.Pepper-albumet till The most important rock & roll album ever made.

Filmen speglar 12 månader av The Beatles liv, från augusti 1966 till augusti 1967, en period då bandet slutade att vara världens mest populära turnéband och i stället blev världens mest uppfinningsrika inspelningsband genom att ständigt utmana gränserna för vad man kunde åstadkomma i en inspelningsstudio. Av en tillfällighet (?) är denna dokumentärfilm faktiskt en fortsättning på Ron Howards dokumentärfilm The Beatles Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years, som slutade med den sista turnén i augusti 1966 och hur bandet gick vidare in i studion för att skriva och spela in det som blev just Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heats Club Band.

Förutom det fantastiska arkivmaterialet har regissören Alan G Parker gjort en rad spännande intervjuer med bland annat originaltrummisen Pete Best, John Lennons syster Julia Baird, Hunter Davies, författare av den första officiella Beatlesbiografin The Beatles – The Authorised Biography, Freda Kelly, sekreterare i The Beatles Official Fan Club i England i hela 11 år! (1962-1973), Ray Connolly, författare som bl.a. har skrivit boken The Ray Connolly Beatles Archive. Bill Harry, skaparen av Liverpools första riktiga musiktidningen Mersey Beat och författare till ett 30-tal böcker om The Beatles, Tony Bramwell, som har arbetat på Brian Epsteins företag NEMS och gick vidare till att bli en av höjdarna inom Beatles bolag Apple, Philip Norman, författare till en del Beatlesböcker, Barbara O’Donnell, Brian Epsteins sekreterare, Tony Crane, grundare och medlem i bandet The Merseybeats, Jenny Boyd, syster till Patti Boyd, som var gift med George Harrison, Andre Barreau, tidigare medlem i tributebandet The Bootleg Beatles.

Filmen, som är producerad av Alexa Morris, går att se på SF-biografer runt om i landet, på Bio Roy i Göteborg och på Bio Rio i Stockholm. Speltid: 1 timme och 53 minuter. Filmen lär också komma ut på DVD och Blu-ray den 3 juli.

Härnedan finns en trailer för filmen. Håll till godo!

Tidningen MOJO:s SGT.PEPPER-SPECIAL

Posted on 11 maj, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Nyheter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Tidningsreportage .

Musiktidningen MOJO Special Anniversary Cover-utgåva med tanke på 50-årsjubileumet av albumet Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band har nu landat även i Sverige!

Tillsammans med tidningen följer en CD kallad Children Of Pepper.
CD:n innehåller 15 artister som har låtit sig inspireras av The Beatles album från 1967. ’Tilläggas kan att det rör sig inte om coverversioner av låtarna från albumet, utan här handlar det om nya låtar som blivit till med hjälp av inspirationen från The Beatles Sgt. Pepper-album.

Som synes har CD-skivan samma vågade tryck som innerpåsen till albumet när det kom 1967.

I övrigt innehåller tidningen hela 18 sidor med information om The Beatles och deras klassiska album.

Nu är den här! – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Anniversary Edition

Posted on 5 maj, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Film/Video, Musik/Skivutgivningar, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

 

Sgt. Pepper: Smakprov från den nya utgåvan!

Posted on 30 april, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Musik/Skivutgivningar, Nyheter, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Eftersom vi firar Valborgsmässoafton idag tycker jag det är lämpligt att få presentera en annan tagning av låten Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band med The Beatles, som ingår på den kommande 50-årsjubileumsutgåvan (släpps den 26 maj). Detta är tagning nr 9, vilken framför allt utmärks av att slutet av låten är helt annorlunda än vad vi är vana vid. Dessutom får vi höra en några synpunkter från både Paul McCartney, John Lennon och  George Harrison på inspelningen.

Värt att veta om Sgt. Pepper: Detta kan du INTE höra!

Posted on 30 april, 2017 by Artillio Bergholtz Posted in Musik/Skivutgivningar, Nyheter, Paul McCartney, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band .

Om en knapp månad (26 maj) kommer Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Bands 50-årsjubileumsutgåva!

Som en del av er redan känner till, finns det något på detta klassiska album som du faktiskt inte kan höra! Det gäller även för de första utgåvorna som släpptes den 1 juni 1967. Men hur kom det sig att beatlarna lade in denna höga frekvens i slutet av skivan? Nedan berättar Paul McCartney lite mer om hur ljudet du inte kan höra kom med på plattan och varför! Kanske tänkte de tillbaka på strofen I’ve Been Working Like A Dog från succélåten A Hard Day’s Night?!

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