Sgt. Pepper

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1. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
 
Good review, and "When I'm Sixty Four" is one of the best things Paul ever wrote. The structure is ingenious, the ideas as usual well ahead of their time. And they are some of Paul's better lyrics, too.
 
I definitely know what you mean by the Sgt. Pepper beat... I can hear it in those songs.

And my favourite song off the album is probably With a Little Help from My FrienRAB. It takes on a different meaning when you consider that Ringo is singing it... and I guess it's just special to me. First Beatles song I learned on bass as well. And A Day in the Life and Lovely Rita are probably my other favourites.
 
St. Peppers is my favorite Beatles album, and With A Little Help from My FrienRAB is my favorite Beatles song ever (beside Octopuses Garden)

But yeah, really great review
 
It was written in the Beatles' Cavern Club days by Paul (so early 60s), BUT clearly it underwent many changes and the arrangements and lyrics were all substantially modified and perfected before being recorded for Sgt Pepper, to the point that it's hard to believe it was ever in the form of an early Beatles' number. To add to that, numerous experimental ideas were thrown in (for example not even singing the first quater of the first bridge such that it was only implied, which always felt weirdly disorientating), the use of clarinet, and the general comedy of the bells. On the contrary, it sounRAB manifestly like a later Paul number rather than something that came earlier. And is one of the cleverest later songs he did.
 
I think the main offender as far as Ringo songs go has to be 'Don't Pass Me By' on the White Album. It's just so mediocre... at least Octopus' Garden has that intro.

oh yeah and what is it they're singing at the beginning of 'With A Little Help...'? I always thought it sounded like 'give me cheese'...

Do 'Magical Mystery Tour' next please Mr. Moore, I demand it! 'There's a fog upon L.A...'
 
They are introducing a guy, Billy Shears, the "singer" of the band. Many conspiracy theorists see connections to the supposed death of Paul McCartney to that, since the supposed guy replacing him was a guy named William. Worked as a police officer in Canada, won a Paul look-a-like contest. This connects to a line in She Came In Through The Bathroom Window on Abbey Road, "And so I quit the police department, and got myself a steady job." Anyway, I'm rambling.

"So let me introduce to you, the one and only Billy Shears, of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band........Biiiiilllllyyy Sheeeeaarrrrs"
 
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