![]() ![]() A model of Jesus was planned for inclusion but didn’t make it, (the LP was released only a few months after Lennon’s Jesus statement, and they didn’t want to stir that one up again). Over 60 famous figures feature on the cover, from musicians, actors, politicians and writers. You could write an article on the sleeve itself! The cover was created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake who won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover, in 1968. (On certain versions of vinyl and even CD pressings, if you listen with the balance turned to just one speaker, you hear ‘Pepper’ like you’ve never heard it before, missing backing vocals, no drums and guitars missing from the mix). The idea was to included all the songs from the album set to music in video style scenes, again The Beatles were well ahead of their time, but the plans were shelved and the footage eventually surfaced in The Beatles Anthology documentary.Īnother hard to believe fact is that the album was mixed in mono because very few people in 1967 had stereo record players, (stereo was strictly for hi-fi nuts) and to prove the point, none of the Beatles attended the sessions for the stereo mixes. ![]() The orchestral recording sessions for “A Day in the Life”, was filmed by six cameramen, the footage was planned to be used for a Sgt. Together, John, Paul and Ringo with the help of assistant Mal Evans hammered the keys on the pianos to create the effect. The thunderous piano chord that concludes the album, was produced by assembling three grand pianos in the studio and playing an E chord on each simultaneously. Kite!”, were inspired and re-worked from a Victorian circus poster for Pablo Fanque’s circus, which Lennon had bought at an antique shop in Kent when he was taking a break from filming the promotional clip for “Strawberry Fields Forever”.Īnd what of the closing track, “A Day in the Life”. The lyrics for Lennon‘s song “Being for the Benefit of Mr. One of Harrison’s bitterest Beatle songs, it was a dig at the band’s publishing company, and the ostensible concept (an album of ‘northern songs’) McCartney hoped to impose on the project. The quiet one’s “Only a Northern Song”, was intended for inclusion right up to the moment that McCartney decided to reprise the title track. George Harrison has only one song on the album, “Within Without You”, but there should have been a second. ![]() When the album was released, both the press and fans insisted the song was instead about Lennon’s many LSD trips, after all the title gave it away. The picture, which was of a little girl with lots of stars, was his classmate – Lucy O’Donnell, who also lived in Weybridge, and attended the same school as Julian. Lennon’s “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” was inspired by a drawing his 3 year-old son Julian returned home from school with one day. The song which was first hatched during The Beatles days in Hamburg was supposedly reworked that autumn by Paul because his father was approaching – 64. The songs: “When I’m 64” became the first track to be recorded for the album, with the first session taking place on 6th Dec 1966. So, what can be said about Pepper that hasn’t been said before? Lets dig deep and see if we can unearth some of the lesser-known facts that helped make-up this masterpiece. Peppers blew our minds when released in June of 1967 it captured British culture, flower power and the feelings of a young and exited generation. Pepper is undoubtedly one of the greatest albums of all time and saw The Beatles rising to new peaks of songwriting. But that’s just my view and one thing is for sure, Sgt. I would argue that Revolver is a better album, as is Abbey Road. The greatest album ever? The best Beatles album? Well that’s all subjective, and we’re all entitled to our own opinion, but in mine, it is neither. ![]()
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