Hints and tips:
...The musician I’d most like to collaborate with is Brian Wilson. And I have....
...As an album, Smile doesn’t quite hold together; it’s no Sgt Pepper....
...If the Beatles’ Sgt Pepper, released later the same year, became the friendly example of the rock album as new countercultural art form, the Velvets’ debut influenced the future sound of adventurous rock...
...Odessey & Oracle is a psychedelic record made with clear heads; imagine Sgt Pepper laid down by five young George Martins, not four pill-popping scousers....
...We move uncertainly to Sgt Pepper....
...The Earlies’s music, with its echoes of “Pet Sounds” and “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, is rich in pedigree but it’s also thoroughly of our times....
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