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...“I sit here at your feet, patiently,” he mournfully ends, “waiting . . . ” Between 1965 and 1968, at the summit of their fame and creative power — Sgt....
...Here, in reaction to the polished excellence of Sgt Pepper, were The Beatles unplugged, unadorned, at their most relaxed, relying on intuition and spontaneous inspiration to carry them through....
...He plays an excerpt of McCartney and Harrison talking through a “hand clap” track of “Penny Lane” (like “Strawberry Fields Forever”, not included on Sgt. Pepper, but part of the same sessions)....
...Bright Phoebus has been compared to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for its originality, variety, cast of strange imaginary characters and evocation of a magical Britain....
...Yet one could teach a lot through the prism of The Beatles and not just modules on George Harrison and the sitar in 1960s culture....
...Musically, however, the band are immensely skilled as they recreate sequences broadly describable as “moptops”, “Shea Stadium”, “Sgt Pepper” and “Abbey Road” (complete with barefoot Paul)....
...Selected by Fraser and The Beatles as well as Blake and Haworth, they range from James Dean, Marlene Dietrich and Marlon Brando to Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud and Indian gurus admired by George Harrison....
...“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is at #10, behind Abbey Road (#5) and the so-called White Album (“The Beatles”), appropriately enough at number 9....
...These are very rare, although a George Harrison guitar has sold for $500,000. At the more affordable level the market is now quite mature, with prices rising gently for the stock items....
...The Vedic sage, known just as the Maharishi, became one of the leading inspirations for the flower power generation when in August 1967, shortly after releasing Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the...
...In spite of speculation that the Beatles could put their music online for the first time this summer, to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the release of Sgt....
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