In , British artist Chris Barker did a modern makeover with a cast of much-missed stars who died that year, including Leonard Cohen, Prince , and footballer Johan Cruyff.
Pepper song covers As well as entire albums, Sgt. The process of paying tribute to a 20th-century music masterpiece has continued beyond the effort by Smashing Pumpkins and into the new century.
Pepper on an album that also features Bryan Adams. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Search uDiscover Music. Click to comment.
Leave a Reply Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Continue Reading. You may like. One sailor on board told me about a group that he claimed was going to be bigger than The Beatles. I told him that was impossible. That guy owes me 50 pounds with interest. Ha ha. It was incredible! It was so different from anything anyone else had ever put out.
How time has flown. I was always an artistic type and loved the visual ideas that could be created from the lyrics of songs like Lucy InThe Sky With Diamonds.
This album influenced so many things like: the hippie movement, civil rights movement, Vietnam war protests,sit ins at the universities, fashion, drug use, and it divided a lot of people in the United States into declaring themselves either Hawks or Doves. It was a radical time on a grand scale—and I loved all of it! I loved basically everything The Beatles put out, but I was always a little more partial to the John Lennon songs.
That being said, I still loved Sgt. These ideals and imaginings are embedded in a diverse soundscape that encompasses the carnivalesque and the sober; the flirtatious and fantastical. The inclusion of flanged vocals and notes that seem to echo forever demonstrates this experimentation best.
As a youth culture scholar, it is clear to me that this album speaks a language that translates across the generations. This explosion of musical colour was significant in foregrounding the album as a statement of artistic intent. The creative strides that the Beatles made were an apogee of a larger shift that also saw musicians making use of the studio as a creative tool, not just a place to set down their songs.
Sgt Pepper is, however, also an important illustration of a wider cultural and political context. Changes in education saw the rising influence of art schools , with popular musicians conceiving of what they did as more than just entertainment.
As John Lennon was to put it :. Whatever wind was blowing at the time moved the Beatles too. But the whole boat was moving. In December last year, I purchased a record player for my wife as a birthday present. It had been two decades since I owned one. Buying vinyl is a very different experience from CD: the art counts. The key to vinyl is that we listen to the album the way the artist intends: the order matters to the musical and lyrical story that unfolds.
This was certainly the case when The Beatles released Sgt Peppers. What makes a concept album is a larger meaning that unifies the order and themes of the music.
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