the beatles sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band super deluxe edition (remix)

I’m not sure it was even the reputation that Sgt.

Kite” and “A Day in the Life” most certainly would have felt out of place on “Please Please Me” or “A Hard Day’s Night” for example. I know John Lennon has said in interviews that his songs from the album at least could have gone on any Beatles album but I think that’s really stretching things a bit. This is the one Beatles album that always seemed like it existed in another time, another place or even cosmic inner space for that matter. Kite”) and classical orchestras playing in the park near newspaper taxis (“She’s Leaving Home”, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”), an Indian garden full of incense and flowers (“Within You Without You”), an older couple blowing out birthday cake candles on a bench near the sidewalk (“When I’m Sixty-Four”) and a pensive runaway standing by herself gazing into the sky (“She’s Leaving Home”).Īnd the “piece de resistance” song from the album “A Day in the Life” feels as if you walked out of the park and stumbled into a crazy kaleidoscope of sound that at times feels like a nightmare or at least a tour through Alice’s garden given by the Cheshire Cat.Īt least that’s what it felt like to me listening to this album at the rip old age of ten. There were fairgrounds (“Being for the Benefit of Mr.

I always felt like I was stepping into some sort of Secret Garden or enchanted place whenever I played Sgt. It didn’t seem current yet it didn’t seem old. I know it’s considered by some to be one of the first concept albums but to me it always seemed more like a place then a concept.įrom the moment I first heard the complete album sometime in the mid-1970s I was taken in by the sight of the lavish cover and the far-out sounds on the record.Įven in 1976 the album sounded a bit out of time to me.

The beatles sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band super deluxe edition (remix)