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InterviewVisual Arts
Artist Jann Haworth: ‘Sgt Pepper’s is just a record cover and I don’t think that’s very important’
...After divorcing Blake in 1979, Haworth and writer Richard Johnstone moved into “a huge, shambling, beautiful farmhouse” outside Bath, Haworth says, where their children could roam....
June 5, 2023
InterviewMusic
Guitarist Steve Hackett on early Genesis: ‘It sounds better and better with time’
...“I’d never previously heard anything that was long-form from a band before that, apart from Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” he continues....
August 4, 2022
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Masterpiece London 2022
Masterpiece fair’s Lucie Kitchener: ‘We encourage people to discover things they weren’t expecting’
...Sgt Pepper was revolutionary; it could easily have bombed.” The last three years — “It could not have been a worse time” — have certainly required gutsy decisions, as well as a steady hand....
June 24, 2022
FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
London walks: a rock tour of Camden and Kentish Town
...Beyond that is William Ellis, a boys’ school formerly home to assorted members of Madness, as well as Richard Thompson, once of Fairport Convention, Hugh Cornwell, once of The Stranglers, the producer Clive...
July 19, 2020
Design
Peter Blake, the beatniks and their lost Pop Art furniture
...Mark recalls a Pop Art painting of Richard Nixon’s face, possibly by Blake, turned into a table, now lost, but visible in contemporaneous photographs....
February 7, 2020
ReviewBiography and memoir
When Words Fail by Ed Vulliamy — soundtrack of salvation
...On the eight-hour drive back to Belgrade afterwards, he and his companions filled the silence in the car by singing as much of The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as they could remember....
November 2, 2018
FT Live
FTWeekend Festival
Where the FT Weekend paper comes to life
Saturday, 7 September London, UK
Life & Arts
Bright Phoebus: rebirth of a magical vision of Britain
...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....
August 1, 2017
News in-depthSpace industry
2020: A Space Station odyssey
...“The market in space real estate is just waiting to be captured,” says Richard Rocket, chief executive of NewSpace Global, which tracks the private space industry....
February 25, 2017
ReviewLife & Arts
‘The Manchurian Candidate’, Ordway Music Theater, St Paul, Minnesota — review
...Kevin Puts’s new opera is based on Richard Condon’s novel but thoughts of the film are unavoidable for anyone who has seen it, and not just because in Kevin Newbury’s production the manipulative Eleanor...
March 13, 2015
Luxury goods
Luxury hotels becoming fine art spaces
...Richard Prince’s painting “The Horse Thief” is in the reception area....
October 22, 2015
Life & Arts
‘A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense’, Pace Gallery, London
...Mayfair art dealer Robert Fraser is immortalised handcuffed to Mick Jagger, in custody after a drugs bust, in Richard Hamilton’s silkscreen “Swingeing London 67”....
February 6, 2015
ReviewLife & Arts
Let It Be, Prince of Wales Theatre, London
...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)....
September 25, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Peter Blake and Pop Music, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
...An equally fervent love of jazz followed soon afterwards, when he joined the Rhythm Club in nearby Dartford (the Kent town where a certain Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were growing up)....
July 3, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Rufus Wainwright, Lyceum Theatre, London
...Certainly, its parping brass was not as Sgt Peppery as on the new record, more a nutty showtune with a meltingly soft centre....
May 1, 2012
ReviewLife & Arts
Rolling Stones at 50
...I was blown away by Revolver and Sgt Pepper but it was the Stones that made me really happy (and still do). If you put a gun to my head, I’d be a Stoner. The reason couldn’t be simpler: dancing....
July 13, 2012
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Life & Arts
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Roundhouse Studio Theatre, London
...Wearing a Sgt Pepper -y naval jacket and trilby with a feather, Lennon exchanged droll repartee with his other half, the epitome of boho chic in her knitted beret....
October 15, 2010
ReviewLife & Arts
The vinyl countdown
...The Velvet Underground and Nico, Are You Experienced, Sgt Pepper, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow – those are just from 1967....
August 8, 2009
Life & Arts
The Zombies, Shepherds Bush Empire, London
...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....
March 10, 2008
Work & Careers
Cover story that leaves authors out of picture
...Amanda Ross, the producer of Richard & Judy who selects titles for its Oprah Winfrey-style book club, has become a powerful force in the industry....
June 21, 2007
Life & Arts
Blake’s progress
...We move uncertainly to Sgt Pepper....
June 8, 2007
Life & Arts
High anxiety
...That makes the sign on the back window of a Ford Explorer stand out. ”Welcome Home Sgt Adcock” it reads in white paint....
April 6, 2007
Life & Arts
‘I’m a sort of weekend rock star’
...Keith Richards bought one, too.” But how did this riot of colour and creativity flow amid the pettifogging rules of a public school in the damp English countryside?...
June 1, 2007
Terrorism
Very modern complex
...Art, music and collage collided in popular culture in the 1960s with The Beatles’ Sgt....
February 20, 2006
World
Abu Ghraib abuse hearings attract the media circus
...Sgt Joyner boomed. Sgt Joyner regaled the court with stories of how he nicknamed the prisoners Spiderman, Count Dracula, Leon Spinks (?because he was missing some teeth?)...
August 6, 2004

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