Ur revolver reaction vis is goat'ed & made my very bad day better... But yeah, for the Sgt Pepper 80% of the songs are all sort of connected up. They all flow into one another without pause. So yeah, you might be able to do another reaction to this. Because it will definitely hit you differrntly all flowing & linked up together. When all the songs are connected up like they are, it was one of the first albums to do that. The first sight of marvin gay's what's going on album is like that too but that was four years after this album... Whatever you do definitely listen to it by yourself in order because that's sort of the whole point to this one... You always do great reactions but the being out of order thing is Unfortunate for you not for us we like What you do but yeah i'm sad you didn't get to hear it in order that's for sure... Great reaction regardless benji: ).... This is one of those crazy albums where even if you paused in between each song to give an opinion you should probably rewind twenty seconds to the previous song so you can hear it flow into the next one.... Yeah this album's crazy like that, You wouldn't just back up the If you paused it mid song You would back up the Start of Of the next Into the previous song... I don't know, I hope that made sense LO.L
Paul told once that the album was released on Friday. On Sunday he attended to a concert of Jimi Hendrix and the very first thing he played was the song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I’m 70 now , when the album came out we took our LSD - put the album on and watched as the color and the sound would oze out of the speakers , and the vocals and music would transport you into the world of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts club and into the magical world of Lucy who lived where rocking horse people ate marshmallow pies . Hung on to the album’s lyrics and sound until - a day in the life with the longest sustained note we ever heard . When it ended we all sat in silence contemplating where we had gone .
A Musicologist once said that the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was the biggest turning point in Rock's brief history! Music, graphic design, culture, attitude, all changed drastically after The Beatles made and released this album!
The Record hit big. I could be walking the neighborhood and could hear this being played all over. It was a magic summer. Everyone had a copy. My folks had a fantastic stereo system, when the folks were out I use to crank it with my friends. It sounded great. The album was a natural high. a little weed with it didn't hurt either. It was a psychedelic time. I was 19 when it came out and had been following the Beatles since , A Hard Days Night. Each album a revelation.
I really appreciated how much you liked "She's Leaving Home." The song is so visual... the image of her mother finding and reading the letter is so beautifully crafted. I often feel like it's overlooked. Again, excellent video, even with the technical issues.
It came out on vinyl record. When this album came out, it changed music forever. Really! Ask any band at the time. It raised the bar to the stratosphere! This album was being played everywhere you went. EVERY SONG on this album was being played on the radio. Brian Wilson, main songwriter of The Beach Boys, another very popular band, was said to have spent the next two years listening to this album over and over, and wouldn’t leave his bedroom or his house…because he said he couldn’t write better than those songs! His album was at the top of the charts at that time and this album knocked his album out of the number one spot and stayed there forever. How was it received? It was Number one album on the charts in the UK for 27 weeks and in the U.S. for 15 weeks. It won 4 Grammy awards including Album of the Year. It was the first album to print the lyrics to each song on the back of the album. There were also inserts inside the sleeve….another first. Things you could hang on your wall. The Beatles knew they had a masterpiece. They requested that the sleeve that it came in be made out of heavier cardboard because it was going to get played a lot! He was right. I have owned 3 Sgt Pepper vinyl albums in my life because listening to it is a joy! You can wear it out! You also get more out of it every time you listen to it. And….no computer technology was used. No such thing! Your ears cannot process all the sounds at once. You have to listen to these songs multiple times. And every album made after this was also as excellent as Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt Pepper’s albums.
The next album that was recorded after Sgt Peppers was Magical Mystery Tour. You should listen to that album next. Why? Because some of the songs they were working on for Sgt Peppers didn’t make it on this album…it went onto that next album. All the songs on that album were great, too. Plus, they made a film to go with Magical Mystery Tour. There is a music video of Sgt Peppers, by the way. The Beatles were the first to do music videos because they just stopped touring. They never toured again because the fans were so crazy for them, screaming so loud, they couldn’t hear themselves play…and their security was often in jeopardy, too! So when they made a record, every song had to be their best work. And it was!
My favourite Beatles album, no question. The first lp I ever bought aged 14, and the one that I have probably listened to the most even though within a very short time I became a massive Hendrix fan and that was me for life. Whatever I've heard and loved since I can always find time to listen to Sgt Pepper a couple of times a year. I will always love it. It makes me cry to think how amazing When I'm 64 sounded now that I am 71...
Thanks for pumping out these Beatles reactions. Us fans can’t get enough of these videos🙏 No problem not reacting in order. It will be cool for you to hear some of their past stuff to see where they started after hearing where they finished. Also, John Lennon has a more nasally voice.
from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road, the Beatles were on the most incredible roll in music history, so for me, my favourite album is the most recent one I listened to
at first when you said you didn't listen in order I thought you meant the tracks not the albums, I nearly had a heart attack! listening to the tracks of this out of order is a crime, lol. This is one of my top 5 albums.
Loved your reaction to Being for the benefit for Mr Kite, your head went to overload when it came to the psychedelic circus music. She's leaving home is a masterpiece and its based on real events, you'll find there's fascinating stories behind most of their songs. Damn it you missed out Lovely Rita , which incidentally is my ringtone. Magical mystery tour next.
Yes, this was the album on which I began to notice the musical bass on Beatle records - like it had been rightly moved forward, as a significant component of the sound.
There are rock legends that have described sitting down and listening to this album at the time it came out and being totally blown away from front to back. Left them speechless and emotional as some have admitted to crying on the spot that it was so moving…the first concept album…..
The Beatles influence on rock music and integrated conceptuality in albums definitely laid the blueprint for the music that came next, but Sgt. Pepper’s is not the first concept album. Folk singers such as Woody Guthrie made conceptual albums long before its release, and the members of the Beatles themselves have said that both Beach Boys and Frank Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention had a huge impact on pushing their creative limits, both creating concept albums before the Beatles ever did. Take a listen to Pet Sounds and Freak Out! if you haven’t already, and if jazz is your cup of tea, Charles Mingus wrote pieces which were all tied in to a poem on his avant-garde album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - which came out even earlier during the 60’s.
Mr. Kite sounds like a long ad for a circus performance. One of the instruments in the background during the bridge sections is a calliope, which were commonly played at circuses.
Each album's release was a major celebration for my generation. I was 10 when this album came out and I and my three best friends came to my house and we played the album on my old record player probably 3-4 times thru straight before dad yelled, "that's enough!"!
26:40 Mr Kite was based on... The Beatles went to Knole Park just outside Sevenoaks in Kent to film the video fror Strawberry Fields, and in Sevenoaks they found an antiques shop and it had an old poster from the 19th century advertising a circus, and the song was inspired by that.
I remember picking up Sgt. Pepper at the local record store, going home, and listening, in amazement. Especially how the songs ran into each other. That was never done before.
I was about seven years old when Sgt. Pepper came out so it took me a few years to discover my parents copy of the album. I remember loving several of the songs from the album (Sgt. Pepper, Liittle Help, Lucy in the Sky, She's Leaving Home, When I'm 64) but didn't really fall in love with the album and the remaining songs until dozens of listens much later in life. Ironically, I don't even remember A Day in the Life going back to my teen years, but now it is my favorite Beatles' song and quite possibly my favorite song of all time.
LEAD VOCALS: Sgt. Pepper (Paul), With a Little Help from My Friends (Ringo), Lucy in the Sky (John), Getting Better (Paul), Fixing A Hole (Paul), She's Leaving Home (Paul w/ John in choruses), Mr. Kite (John), Within You Without You (George), When I'm 64 (Paul), Lovely Rita (Paul), Good Morning (John), Sgt. Pepper (Paul with John and George), A Day in the Life (John in the A section, Paul in the B section).
The thing that is hard for someone who didn't live through the time of the Beatles is how different this music was from what was on the radio at the time. Yes, the songs are good, and they hold up pretty well over time. But there have been plenty of good songs since the Beatles. What the Beatles did was constantly point in the direction that pop/rock music was to go. Album after album. When it came to music, fashion and coolness, the Beatles were the tip of the spear for several years. There was nothing like it before. Yes, there were Frank Sinatra and Elvis, but they didn't write and perform their own songs, they didn't tap into the era nearly as deeply as the Beatles did. The Beatles made it cool to be British. They made it cool to play guitar. They made it cool to write mysterious songs. They made it cool to create music that was rock, folk, classical, psychedelic and pop... sometimes all at once.
Such a shame we never heard your response to A Day in the Life - my all time fav song by the Beatles. When I first heard the orchestra all hitting E, I was blown away - I think I was about ten when I first heard and it still sends shivers down me. Loving your enthusiasm for the band. Worth watching a documentary about them, it’s an amazing story and history. White album next 🤪🎉
My favourite Beatles song too, then Strawberry fields forever and In my life. Bet you've guessed that John was my favourite. My " working class hero ". However they were all very special and without them I often wonder how boring and non inventive the music world would have been.
@@blackboybenjii you asked how this album went down when it came out? 27 weeks at No.1 in the UK and 15 weeks in the US. This is the soundtrack of the Summer of Love!
It is so great seeing your reactions and hearing this great music for the first time! I'm 62 years old, born in 1962 (30 March, so I'll soon be 63), but my Daddy bought me my first record player around 1969, so I was around 7 years old, and he had 2 albums he had gotten for me: one had just came out, it was Johnny Cash at San Quenton prison, and Sergeant Pepper! Now talk about 2 albums that are nothing alike; except they both have great music on them, and I wore out the Sergeant Pepper album! Yes, The White Album!
i just recently found your channel and this was actually my first beatles album and I'm glad you enjoyed it! its a little different than some of their other stuff but, this opened up a whole new world of music for me when I first got it with a cd Walkman.
Mate enjoying ure honest reactions reminds me of being a 15 year old boy in Glasgow and discovering the albums week by week we didn't have streaming then so u listened on vinyl or audio cassette! U wont be aware there were singles released with all of these albums whuch in most cases were not on the albums. U will find all of the missing tracks on past masters 1 and 2. Next listen? I recomend Rubber Soul and the double A sided single which came grom same sessions We can work it out/Day tripper. Album before Revolver not only chsnged there music but blew the minds of other famous musicians most famously Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. Enjoy the journey ure life will nevef be the same again now uve discovered the"Fabs"! All the best Stevie from Glasgow.
John sings Lucy in The Sky... Paul sings Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Ringo sings With a Little Help From My Friends. George sings Within You Without You. You'll get to know their voices by the time you're done with the Beatles rabbit hole. And we listened to everything on vinyl in the 60s and early 70s because that's all there was beside the radio or Top of The Pops.
Vinyl I was only eleven. I persuaded my mom to buy it for me when we were out shopping. Whenever I put the album on, it magically transformed the room I was sitting in, and with that, my state of mind.
When this shit dropped! It really was a wow moment! Nobody put together anything like this. The alter ego band, thematic, psychedelic, production, it still is insane that this came out in 67
I don't know if anyone has already said this. In your past Beatles reactions, people, including me, have spoken of George Martin's contributions to the band's music. On the "Mr Kite" song, John was having difficulty with the instrumental ending... he just couldn't "get it right". So, Martin told an engineering assistant to go to the vault and find "so many feet" of caliope music (what you hear when on a merry-go-round) and bring it into the studio. Martin then cut the tape into small pieces, tossed them around and then told the assistant to "splice them back together at random". When the resulting audio was played, Lennon was absolutely delighted because it was exactly what he wanted! And that's what you hear at the close of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite". I swear to you, if the Beatles had been signed to Decca and not EMI, the history of popular music would be so different today as to be unrecognizable.
Monumental album in its day as it took something like 720 hours to record it. Their first album took somewhere from 9 to 11 hours. When we used to listen to albums we also had the huge album cover with the lyrics on the back.
Yes, album sleeves became really part of the whole package during the Sixties! Look at the glossy front (often more inside), and read the lyrics and credits on the back! That aspect diminished with the move to CDs - and now, totally absent in streaming. We lost a lot. Sure, steaming is amazing... but do we appreciate music so much, when we don't have ownership? A thing to look at, admire, be proud to own...? To show and share with your friends!
Within you, whitout you is written by George, performance with indians instruments like sitar and tablas. Traditional culture, meditation, yoga, etc., that's why you feel transported.
Sgt. PEPPER blew the music world away, it changed everyone's conception of what a Rock song and album was and could be. Played it on my phonograph until the grooves wore out 😂😂!
Johnny Rivers sang: Everybody kept on playing Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. (Summer Rain) About sums it up. It was an LP. Only later was it on tape, disc or any other way to listen. Side ONE and Side TWO like god™ intended. Mr. Kite was the last song on side one.
@@mooghead He asked what Sgt. Peppers did in youth society and the US in general. And I replied that it was so everywhere and so popular that it got mentioned in another pop hit. th-cam.com/video/Xa9vWVEYojg/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=jriversmusic Just the pepper ref: th-cam.com/video/Xa9vWVEYojg/w-d-xo.html
Really liked your reaction, brother. As a general rule, the beatle who sang it wrote it. The exception is Ringo who didn't write most of the songs he sang. You should find a list of which beatle sang it the next time. Lennon and mccartney always credited their work to both but in the latter years they rarely wrote together.
I'll admit it, when I heard of your technical difficulties I just thought "What a shame", and just passed up looking at it. Glad that I came back, though! The voice/visual lack of synchronization is not too distracting, and the greatness of your reaction to this album comes through. Would you consider reacting to albums by other artists besides the Beatles?
My first LP when it came out 10yo. Light in my life adults often darkened. To me this album WAS the Beatles. The pinnacle of psychedelic’60s. Made the album an art form in itself, not just a collection of songs.
A curious fact is that "Lucy" is the fossil that rewrote the history of human evolution. She was named by Johanson because, as the team recounted when announcing the discovery, they were listening to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
The intro on Within you Without you is indian sitar and sung by George Harrison who was a devotee of the Sitar master Ravi Shankar. Indian raga style drums comprise the backing track
Sgt. Pepper, released in June 1967, was given to me for Christmas 1974, when it was 7,5 years old (me myself was 14,5 years old). And it was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. Awesome album from start to finish. Back in the day it was equally unheard of. How did they, The Beatles, do it? This album was the start of progressive rock, unless you consider In the Court of the Crimson Kung by King Crimson the ultimate kick off for the prog movement.
Just recently discovered your videos and have been loving your Beatles reactions. And now I learn you're an Arsenal supporter too. I'm an even bigger fan of yours now ❤️🤍
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Beatles, but growing up at the time, about 10 years old when this album was released, they were the only band where I knew the name of every member. Mid teens I picked music from optional subjects at secondary school, and started to appreciate the Beatles as an example of what working class kids can do with just a basic education. Lucky to have an English teacher who thought the lyrics of Elenor Rigby worth a mention alongside Wordsworth’s Daffodils in the context of describing loneliness v being alone. Elenor Rigby was buried along with her name, she never got to wander lonely as a cloud.
Thanks for sharing despite the difficulties. Lucy In the Skies With Diamonds - LSD. Listen again, it all makes sense, or does it? The comments are fire!
EVERY song in the Beatles catalog I is a really big song! That being said, yes A Little Help from my Friends is one of their bigger songs although it was never released as a single. It was covered by Joe Cocker who is one of the few to successfully re interpret a Beatles song. Ringo sings the lead in the song.
Just to add to this, Joe Crocker's version of A Little Help was used as the theme song for The Wonder Years, so anyone who was young then or caught the reruns later (like myself) would probably recognise the song from that.
18:42 There were actually a couple ways to listen to music in '67. Though very few used them yet it was available on cassette, it was on 8-track as well. If you fancied yourself an audiophile with money you might get the reel to reel tape. But pretty much everyone just bought the album. We didn't say vinyl, they were records. From there though there really was discussion on music consumption, especially amps and speakers. More power, bigger speakers, with strong bass. That carried over to the car as well.
You have to check out Joe Cocker’s version of “With a little help from my friends” from the 1969 Woodstock concert. You will not be sorry. It’s the best cover of any Beatles song ever.😊
Benjii, I love your reactions, bruv! I love ALL Beatles albums but I grew up and, basically, discovered music/Rock & Roll through the Beatles, back when I was a young lad. My older siblings had a lot of albums around the house, and I listened to those, from about 1968 onwards. I started with the early U.S. albums like "Meet the Beatles", "Something New", and "Beatles '65" (and the Help! Soundtrack!). So, I am more bonded with those albums, as you can imagine. It looks like you are starting with late-Beatles, which is great. But, the earlier, "Beatlemania"-era albums are fantastic too! What you should keep in mind when listening to those albums (the ones from 1963 to 1965) is that A) the recording technology wasn't great and the albums were meant to be heard in Mono, rather than stereo. That is, we had Stereo versions of the albums, but Mono was the 1st iteration and sounded the best, because stereo production was in its infancy. B) keep in mind that the sound The Beatles made was TOTALLY new! If you search on Hit songs from 1962 and 1963, they are good, catchy, Pop-y, but when the Beatles came out everything else was just blown off the map! That's because they were leading with guitars, incredible Rock & Pop vocals and a HUGE Rhythm section! They just completely changed the music landscape for all time, once they hit in 1963 and again, in America, in 1964! So, enjoy those early albums, at some point. You'll probably listen to the UK/EMI versions, such as "With the Beatles", "A Hard Day's Night", and "Beatles For Sale", but don't forget about the singles they put out from this time, which are consolidated on EMI releases called "Past Masters Part 1 & 2". Enjoy!
The order of this album is important. This was one of the earliest concept albums. Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Paul McCartney had a friendly rivalry that inspired them to write some of the greatest music of all time. This album and the Beach Boys' album "Pet Sounds" really fed the rivalry. And were a result of it, as well. They are considered two of the greatest albums of all time. I am really enjoying this series of reaction videos.
For many years, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was widely regarded as the greatest album of all time, a status that seemed untouchable and firmly entrenched in music history. However, over time, this iconic record has often been relegated to the background, increasingly overlooked and even disrespected, especially on contemporary "best albums of all time" lists. It seems that, as musical tastes evolved and newer generations of music listeners emerged, people began to grow tired of calling Sgt. Pepper's the definitive masterpiece. Despite its undeniable historical significance and groundbreaking influence, the album now faces a wave of reconsideration, as many argue that it no longer holds the same cultural weight it once did. This shift is particularly evident when you see that it wasn't even included in Apple's recent list of the best albums of all time:(
Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite was inspired by a vintage poster John saw advertising a circus. I have a copy of it on my wall. It names Mr Kite, the Hendersons and a dancing horse amongst other acts. 😊
this was the first album that they knew they wouldn't support by touring, so they really put more effort into production. some songs they never played in public live because they were practically created with a lot of editing (eg strawberry fields, lucy in the sky) if ypu are interested, Elton John did a great cover of Lucy in the sky
When you cant tell who's singing, it's usually Paul, he has a few singing voices. Paul has a soft voice, Johns is sharp, sings through his noise and sounds raspy
Favorite story around that album can be seen in Jimi Hendrix biopic when Jimi buy the album which just came out and decide to open his show with Sgt Pepper with the Beatles in the room
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Ur revolver reaction vis is goat'ed & made my very bad day better... But yeah, for the Sgt Pepper 80% of the songs are all sort of connected up. They all flow into one another without pause. So yeah, you might be able to do another reaction to this.
Because it will definitely hit you differrntly all flowing & linked up together. When all the songs are connected up like they are, it was one of the first albums to do that. The first sight of marvin gay's what's going on album is like that too but that was four years after this album... Whatever you do definitely listen to it by yourself in order because that's sort of the whole point to this one... You always do great reactions but the being out of order thing is Unfortunate for you not for us we like What you do but yeah i'm sad you didn't get to hear it in order that's for sure... Great reaction regardless benji: ).... This is one of those crazy albums where even if you paused in between each song to give an opinion you should probably rewind twenty seconds to the previous song so you can hear it flow into the next one.... Yeah this album's crazy like that, You wouldn't just back up the If you paused it mid song You would back up the Start of Of the next Into the previous song... I don't know, I hope that made sense LO.L
PLEASE LISTEN TO THE BEATLES LOVE ALBUM AFTER YOU LISTEN TO ALL THE ALBUMS
@@blackboybenjii Don't forget all the singles that were never on albums.
You should listen to Pet Sounds next by The Beach Boys. It influenced the Beatles during that time period.
You asked, "what was the reaction when this album originally dropped?"... my friend, it changed popular music forever ...
Absolutely.
Paul told once that the album was released on Friday. On Sunday he attended to a concert of Jimi Hendrix and the very first thing he played was the song Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
@@ottocarsona recording of that performance exists, It’s pretty stellar.
@@kiramead4133 OMG would love to hear that!
This music was like it came from another planet at the time. And it's still relevant and great today. Never gets old.
I’m 70 now , when the album came out we took our LSD - put the album on and watched as the color and the sound would oze out of the speakers , and the vocals and music would transport you into the world of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts club and into the magical world of Lucy who lived where rocking horse people ate marshmallow pies . Hung on to the album’s lyrics and sound until - a day in the life with the longest sustained note we ever heard . When it ended we all sat in silence contemplating where we had gone .
I love it. Together..
Love to you, from a 22yo who loves 60s fashion, music, and its movements 🩵✨
Took LSD on the 90s and had a break. Took some 6 months ago and it was awesome 👌 Keep it real
I love the Beatles, u are so cool man, love it
A Musicologist once said that the Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album was the biggest turning point in Rock's brief history! Music, graphic design, culture, attitude, all changed drastically after The Beatles made and released this album!
The Record hit big. I could be walking the neighborhood and could hear this being played all over. It was a magic summer. Everyone had a copy. My folks had a fantastic stereo system, when the folks were out I use to crank it with my friends. It sounded great. The album was a natural high. a little weed with it didn't hurt either. It was a psychedelic time. I was 19 when it came out and had been following the Beatles since , A Hard Days Night. Each album a revelation.
Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite was created by John pretty much entirely from a 19th century circus poster he purchased at an antique shop.
I really appreciated how much you liked "She's Leaving Home." The song is so visual... the image of her mother finding and reading the letter is so beautifully crafted. I often feel like it's overlooked.
Again, excellent video, even with the technical issues.
Incredibly beautiful song, in my opinion.
It was hailed as a masterpiece when it came out. And it still is.
It came out on vinyl record. When this album came out, it changed music forever. Really! Ask any band at the time. It raised the bar to the stratosphere! This album was being played everywhere you went. EVERY SONG on this album was being played on the radio. Brian Wilson, main songwriter of The Beach Boys, another very popular band, was said to have spent the next two years listening to this album over and over, and wouldn’t leave his bedroom or his house…because he said he couldn’t write better than those songs! His album was at the top of the charts at that time and this album knocked his album out of the number one spot and stayed there forever.
How was it received? It was Number one album on the charts in the UK for 27 weeks and in the U.S. for 15 weeks. It won 4 Grammy awards including Album of the Year. It was the first album to print the lyrics to each song on the back of the album. There were also inserts inside the sleeve….another first. Things you could hang on your wall. The Beatles knew they had a masterpiece. They requested that the sleeve that it came in be made out of heavier cardboard because it was going to get played a lot! He was right. I have owned 3 Sgt Pepper vinyl albums in my life because listening to it is a joy! You can wear it out! You also get more out of it every time you listen to it. And….no computer technology was used. No such thing! Your ears cannot process all the sounds at once. You have to listen to these songs multiple times. And every album made after this was also as excellent as Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt Pepper’s albums.
The next album that was recorded after Sgt Peppers was Magical Mystery Tour. You should listen to that album next. Why? Because some of the songs they were working on for Sgt Peppers didn’t make it on this album…it went onto that next album. All the songs on that album were great, too. Plus, they made a film to go with Magical Mystery Tour. There is a music video of Sgt Peppers, by the way. The Beatles were the first to do music videos because they just stopped touring. They never toured again because the fans were so crazy for them, screaming so loud, they couldn’t hear themselves play…and their security was often in jeopardy, too! So when they made a record, every song had to be their best work. And it was!
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This IS the album that left everyone in the dust. They changed music (again).
My favourite Beatles album, no question. The first lp I ever bought aged 14, and the one that I have probably listened to the most even though within a very short time I became a massive Hendrix fan and that was me for life.
Whatever I've heard and loved since I can always find time to listen to Sgt Pepper a couple of times a year. I will always love it. It makes me cry to think how amazing When I'm 64 sounded now that I am 71...
Thanks for pumping out these Beatles reactions. Us fans can’t get enough of these videos🙏
No problem not reacting in order. It will be cool for you to hear some of their past stuff to see where they started after hearing where they finished.
Also, John Lennon has a more nasally voice.
Precisely - those early years will blow him away after this stuff too. Yeah, no worries about the order. They’re all the best songs in the world 😊
from Rubber Soul to Abbey Road, the Beatles were on the most incredible roll in music history, so for me, my favourite album is the most recent one I listened to
This is considered to be the best rock album. (By fans and critics)
I like abbey rd better
at first when you said you didn't listen in order I thought you meant the tracks not the albums, I nearly had a heart attack! listening to the tracks of this out of order is a crime, lol. This is one of my top 5 albums.
Loved your reaction to Being for the benefit for Mr Kite, your head went to overload when it came to the psychedelic circus music. She's leaving home is a masterpiece and its based on real events, you'll find there's fascinating stories behind most of their songs. Damn it you missed out Lovely Rita , which incidentally is my ringtone. Magical mystery tour next.
Paul wrote When Im 64 before he was a Beatle at about the age of 16! TALENT!
With the same chord sequence as Tiger Rag, lol! It's okay to steal chord sequences, though, and Tiger Rag was probably stolen from someone else.
This album changed music from that time.. The Beatles were always innovative
The lead singer of Lucy is clearly John
Paul's bass on this LP is awesome!
Yes, this was the album on which I began to notice the musical bass on Beatle records - like it had been rightly moved forward, as a significant component of the sound.
My younger years. So great and amazing music. I'm so lucky.
Another magic album from the Beatles! Imagine being 10 years old and hearing this music! It was great growing up in the 60s!
Paul singing lead on Getting Better, Fixing a Hole and She's Leaving Home.
ive been trying to watch all your beatles reactions love the series, cheers mate
There are rock legends that have described sitting down and listening to this album at the time it came out and being totally blown away from front to back. Left them speechless and emotional as some have admitted to crying on the spot that it was so moving…the first concept album…..
The Beatles influence on rock music and integrated conceptuality in albums definitely laid the blueprint for the music that came next, but Sgt. Pepper’s is not the first concept album. Folk singers such as Woody Guthrie made conceptual albums long before its release, and the members of the Beatles themselves have said that both Beach Boys and Frank Zappa’s band The Mothers of Invention had a huge impact on pushing their creative limits, both creating concept albums before the Beatles ever did. Take a listen to Pet Sounds and Freak Out! if you haven’t already, and if jazz is your cup of tea, Charles Mingus wrote pieces which were all tied in to a poem on his avant-garde album The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - which came out even earlier during the 60’s.
She’s leaving home. 10/10. Total agreement here. Love the Beatles reactions!
We listened on radio or Vinyl. No WWweb. That's why radio was so popular otherwise you had to buy the vinyl. Welcome to the 60's.
My music teacher had us sing When I’m 64 when I was about 10. In 10 years’ time, I will be 64 ❤
Imagine Paul McCartney now 82?
I am 64 in 2 weeks time 🥸
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Mr. Kite sounds like a long ad for a circus performance. One of the instruments in the background during the bridge sections is a calliope, which were commonly played at circuses.
Each album's release was a major celebration for my generation. I was 10 when this album came out and I and my three best friends came to my house and we played the album on my old record player probably 3-4 times thru straight before dad yelled, "that's enough!"!
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26:40 Mr Kite was based on... The Beatles went to Knole Park just outside Sevenoaks in Kent to film the video fror Strawberry Fields, and in Sevenoaks they found an antiques shop and it had an old poster from the 19th century advertising a circus, and the song was inspired by that.
I remember picking up Sgt. Pepper at the local record store, going home, and listening, in amazement. Especially how the songs ran into each other. That was never done before.
I was about seven years old when Sgt. Pepper came out so it took me a few years to discover my parents copy of the album. I remember loving several of the songs from the album (Sgt. Pepper, Liittle Help, Lucy in the Sky, She's Leaving Home, When I'm 64) but didn't really fall in love with the album and the remaining songs until dozens of listens much later in life. Ironically, I don't even remember A Day in the Life going back to my teen years, but now it is my favorite Beatles' song and quite possibly my favorite song of all time.
I feel better EVERYTIME I listen to the Beatles...they put a smile on my face, i want to dance and twirl and sing along EVERYTIME! Win Win situation.
You really should do this one over again. I'd love to hear the whole album with you.
LEAD VOCALS: Sgt. Pepper (Paul), With a Little Help from My Friends (Ringo), Lucy in the Sky (John), Getting Better (Paul), Fixing A Hole (Paul), She's Leaving Home (Paul w/ John in choruses), Mr. Kite (John), Within You Without You (George), When I'm 64 (Paul), Lovely Rita (Paul), Good Morning (John), Sgt. Pepper (Paul with John and George), A Day in the Life (John in the A section, Paul in the B section).
Thank you for this!
Good Job.Except John is singing his opinion to Paul’s lead on Getting Better.
I was in shock when it came out. I wanted The Beatles to be The Beatles. I was ten years old and didn’t want them to Be Sergeant Pepper’s!
She Leaving Home has an interesting backstory if you want to google it.
The thing that is hard for someone who didn't live through the time of the Beatles is how different this music was from what was on the radio at the time. Yes, the songs are good, and they hold up pretty well over time. But there have been plenty of good songs since the Beatles. What the Beatles did was constantly point in the direction that pop/rock music was to go. Album after album. When it came to music, fashion and coolness, the Beatles were the tip of the spear for several years. There was nothing like it before. Yes, there were Frank Sinatra and Elvis, but they didn't write and perform their own songs, they didn't tap into the era nearly as deeply as the Beatles did. The Beatles made it cool to be British. They made it cool to play guitar. They made it cool to write mysterious songs. They made it cool to create music that was rock, folk, classical, psychedelic and pop... sometimes all at once.
Such a shame we never heard your response to A Day in the Life - my all time fav song by the Beatles. When I first heard the orchestra all hitting E, I was blown away - I think I was about ten when I first heard and it still sends shivers down me. Loving your enthusiasm for the band. Worth watching a documentary about them, it’s an amazing story and history. White album next 🤪🎉
The Beatles all hit the E around Revolver...
My favourite Beatles song too, then Strawberry fields forever and In my life. Bet you've guessed that John was my favourite. My " working class hero ". However they were all very special and without them I often wonder how boring and non inventive the music world would have been.
When it dropped this is what took pop music to be music to listened to and changed pop music forever
That was actually John singing lead vocal (double-tracked) on Good Morning, Good Morning.
Great reaction Man, really enjoyed, thanks. :)
Thank you :)
@@blackboybenjii you asked how this album went down when it came out? 27 weeks at No.1 in the UK and 15 weeks in the US. This is the soundtrack of the Summer of Love!
It is so great seeing your reactions and hearing this great music for the first time!
I'm 62 years old, born in 1962 (30 March, so I'll soon be 63), but my Daddy bought me my first record player around 1969, so I was around 7 years old, and he had 2 albums he had gotten for me: one had just came out, it was Johnny Cash at San Quenton prison, and Sergeant Pepper! Now talk about 2 albums that are nothing alike; except they both have great music on them, and I wore out the Sergeant Pepper album!
Yes, The White Album!
i just recently found your channel and this was actually my first beatles album and I'm glad you enjoyed it! its a little different than some of their other stuff but, this opened up a whole new world of music for me when I first got it with a cd Walkman.
In the 60s we put a record (vinyl) on a record player. Our an 8track cassette in an 8 track player. And of course the radio- both AM & FM
Mate enjoying ure honest reactions reminds me of being a 15 year old boy in Glasgow and discovering the albums week by week we didn't have streaming then so u listened on vinyl or audio cassette! U wont be aware there were singles released with all of these albums whuch in most cases were not on the albums. U will find all of the missing tracks on past masters 1 and 2. Next listen? I recomend Rubber Soul and the double A sided single which came grom same sessions We can work it out/Day tripper. Album before Revolver not only chsnged there music but blew the minds of other famous musicians most famously Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. Enjoy the journey ure life will nevef be the same again now uve discovered the"Fabs"! All the best Stevie from Glasgow.
This album introduced me to classic rock - I used to root through my dads vinyl collection as a kid in the 80s
Music that puts a smile on your face.
This is the first album when they all knew music.
Good morning good morning was all John singing, and Paul playing a great guitar solo
John sings Lucy in The Sky... Paul sings Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Ringo sings With a Little Help From My Friends. George sings Within You Without You. You'll get to know their voices by the time you're done with the Beatles rabbit hole. And we listened to everything on vinyl in the 60s and early 70s because that's all there was beside the radio or Top of The Pops.
Vinyl
I was only eleven. I persuaded my mom to buy it for me when we were out shopping. Whenever I put the album on, it magically transformed the room I was sitting in, and with that, my state of mind.
When this shit dropped! It really was a wow moment! Nobody put together anything like this. The alter ego band, thematic, psychedelic, production, it still is insane that this came out in 67
Great reaction as always!!!
Magical Mystery Tour please!
Thanks man! Coming right up 🙏🫡
I don't know if anyone has already said this. In your past Beatles reactions, people, including me, have spoken of George Martin's contributions to the band's music. On the "Mr Kite" song, John was having difficulty with the instrumental ending... he just couldn't "get it right". So, Martin told an engineering assistant to go to the vault and find "so many feet" of caliope music (what you hear when on a merry-go-round) and bring it into the studio. Martin then cut the tape into small pieces, tossed them around and then told the assistant to "splice them back together at random". When the resulting audio was played, Lennon was absolutely delighted because it was exactly what he wanted! And that's what you hear at the close of "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite". I swear to you, if the Beatles had been signed to Decca and not EMI, the history of popular music would be so different today as to be unrecognizable.
Monumental album in its day as it took something like 720 hours to record it. Their first album took somewhere from 9 to 11 hours. When we used to listen to albums we also had the huge album cover with the lyrics on the back.
Yes, album sleeves became really part of the whole package during the Sixties! Look at the glossy front (often more inside), and read the lyrics and credits on the back! That aspect diminished with the move to CDs - and now, totally absent in streaming. We lost a lot. Sure, steaming is amazing... but do we appreciate music so much, when we don't have ownership? A thing to look at, admire, be proud to own...? To show and share with your friends!
I love the way you looked totally confused when listening to Mr kite 😁
I played this album to someone who said they hated the Beatles. Instantly converted her 😃
Within you, whitout you is written by George, performance with indians instruments like sitar and tablas. Traditional culture, meditation, yoga, etc., that's why you feel transported.
Paul wrote the melody for When I'm Sixty Four when he was about 14 years old!
Why am I not surprised?
Wow! 🤯
Sgt. PEPPER blew the music world away, it changed everyone's conception of what a Rock song and album was and could be. Played it on my phonograph until the grooves wore out 😂😂!
Johnny Rivers sang: Everybody kept on playing Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
(Summer Rain)
About sums it up. It was an LP. Only later was it on tape, disc or any other way to listen.
Side ONE and Side TWO like god™ intended. Mr. Kite was the last song on side one.
What?
@@mooghead He asked what Sgt. Peppers did in youth society and the US in general. And I replied that it was so everywhere and so popular that it got mentioned in another pop hit.
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Really liked your reaction, brother. As a general rule, the beatle who sang it wrote it. The exception is Ringo who didn't write most of the songs he sang.
You should find a list of which beatle sang it the next time. Lennon and mccartney always credited their work to both but in the latter years they rarely wrote together.
I'll admit it, when I heard of your technical difficulties I just thought "What a shame", and just passed up looking at it. Glad that I came back, though! The voice/visual lack of synchronization is not too distracting, and the greatness of your reaction to this album comes through. Would you consider reacting to albums by other artists besides the Beatles?
Thanks a lot bro, much appreciated! What else would you like me to react to?
@@blackboybenjii "Black Star Elephant" by Nico and Vinz from 2014. Norwegian Afro-pop duo. Any interest?
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I skipped ahead to watch you listen to She's Leaving Home... chuckled at the end at your reaction, that song is perfection truly.
we'd love to watch a second do over i think man, i'd love to hear u react to a day in the life a lot!
My first LP when it came out 10yo. Light in my life adults often darkened. To me this album WAS the Beatles. The pinnacle of psychedelic’60s. Made the album an art form in itself, not just a collection of songs.
A curious fact is that "Lucy" is the fossil that rewrote the history of human evolution. She was named by Johanson because, as the team recounted when announcing the discovery, they were listening to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"
The intro on Within you Without you is indian sitar and sung by George Harrison who was a devotee of the Sitar master Ravi Shankar. Indian raga style drums comprise the backing track
Looks like Lovely Rita must not have survived the sound issue. A great song written primarily by Paul, who sung lead vocals.
It didn’t unfortunately but I liked the song!
A true masterpiece and, for its time, an incredible production! No ProTools!
Sgt. Pepper, released in June 1967, was given to me for Christmas 1974, when it was 7,5 years old (me myself was 14,5 years old). And it was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. Awesome album from start to finish. Back in the day it was equally unheard of. How did they, The Beatles, do it? This album was the start of progressive rock, unless you consider In the Court of the Crimson Kung by King Crimson the ultimate kick off for the prog movement.
Just recently discovered your videos and have been loving your Beatles reactions. And now I learn you're an Arsenal supporter too. I'm an even bigger fan of yours now ❤️🤍
Haha COYG ❤️🤍
@blackboybenjii what a fucking win!! 🥳 Myles and Ethan - take a bow!
20:00 I grew up listening to this album on CD in the '90s. I always skipped this one because it made me want to cry, lol.
Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the Beatles, but growing up at the time, about 10 years old when this album was released, they were the only band where I knew the name of every member. Mid teens I picked music from optional subjects at secondary school, and started to appreciate the Beatles as an example of what working class kids can do with just a basic education. Lucky to have an English teacher who thought the lyrics of Elenor Rigby worth a mention alongside Wordsworth’s Daffodils in the context of describing loneliness v being alone. Elenor Rigby was buried along with her name, she never got to wander lonely as a cloud.
Thanks for sharing despite the difficulties.
Lucy In the Skies With Diamonds - LSD. Listen again, it all makes sense, or does it?
The comments are fire!
John is singing lead on Lucy in sky with Diamonds.😊
EVERY song in the Beatles catalog I is a really big song! That being said, yes A Little Help from my Friends is one of their bigger songs although it was never released as a single. It was covered by Joe Cocker who is one of the few to successfully re interpret a Beatles song. Ringo sings the lead in the song.
Just to add to this, Joe Crocker's version of A Little Help was used as the theme song for The Wonder Years, so anyone who was young then or caught the reruns later (like myself) would probably recognise the song from that.
Elton John succeeded also with L.S.D. :)
@dandecastro51 yes, and I think Earth Wind and Fire's Got to Get you into my Life and MJ's Come Together were quite successful as well.
@@bobtausworthe oh ya ofc! It's endless... even some little known gems, like deep purple "Help" :)
18:42 There were actually a couple ways to listen to music in '67. Though very few used them yet it was available on cassette, it was on 8-track as well. If you fancied yourself an audiophile with money you might get the reel to reel tape.
But pretty much everyone just bought the album. We didn't say vinyl, they were records.
From there though there really was discussion on music consumption, especially amps and speakers. More power, bigger speakers, with strong bass. That carried over to the car as well.
Magical Mystery Tour!
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You have to check out Joe Cocker’s version of “With a little help from my friends” from the 1969 Woodstock concert. You will not be sorry. It’s the best cover of any Beatles song ever.😊
I used to skip this song when I was young (a long time ago!), but now it is actually one of my favourites.
Back in the '60s all we had was vinal. And it was spectacular.
John singing the "parent counterpoint" on She's Leaving Home.
Benjii, I love your reactions, bruv! I love ALL Beatles albums but I grew up and, basically, discovered music/Rock & Roll through the Beatles, back when I was a young lad. My older siblings had a lot of albums around the house, and I listened to those, from about 1968 onwards. I started with the early U.S. albums like "Meet the Beatles", "Something New", and "Beatles '65" (and the Help! Soundtrack!). So, I am more bonded with those albums, as you can imagine. It looks like you are starting with late-Beatles, which is great. But, the earlier, "Beatlemania"-era albums are fantastic too! What you should keep in mind when listening to those albums (the ones from 1963 to 1965) is that A) the recording technology wasn't great and the albums were meant to be heard in Mono, rather than stereo. That is, we had Stereo versions of the albums, but Mono was the 1st iteration and sounded the best, because stereo production was in its infancy. B) keep in mind that the sound The Beatles made was TOTALLY new! If you search on Hit songs from 1962 and 1963, they are good, catchy, Pop-y, but when the Beatles came out everything else was just blown off the map! That's because they were leading with guitars, incredible Rock & Pop vocals and a HUGE Rhythm section! They just completely changed the music landscape for all time, once they hit in 1963 and again, in America, in 1964! So, enjoy those early albums, at some point. You'll probably listen to the UK/EMI versions, such as "With the Beatles", "A Hard Day's Night", and "Beatles For Sale", but don't forget about the singles they put out from this time, which are consolidated on EMI releases called "Past Masters Part 1 & 2". Enjoy!
The order of this album is important. This was one of the earliest concept albums.
Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and Paul McCartney had a friendly rivalry that inspired them to write some of the greatest music of all time. This album and the Beach Boys' album "Pet Sounds" really fed the rivalry. And were a result of it, as well. They are considered two of the greatest albums of all time.
I am really enjoying this series of reaction videos.
For many years, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was widely regarded as the greatest album of all time, a status that seemed untouchable and firmly entrenched in music history. However, over time, this iconic record has often been relegated to the background, increasingly overlooked and even disrespected, especially on contemporary "best albums of all time" lists. It seems that, as musical tastes evolved and newer generations of music listeners emerged, people began to grow tired of calling Sgt. Pepper's the definitive masterpiece. Despite its undeniable historical significance and groundbreaking influence, the album now faces a wave of reconsideration, as many argue that it no longer holds the same cultural weight it once did. This shift is particularly evident when you see that it wasn't even included in Apple's recent list of the best albums of all time:(
Psychedelic is a term imposed from the external world. The spirit of the song emerges from inside. Explore the source. Discover your source.
One of the five consistently solid albums
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is most definitely NOT about an LSD trip! No way! 😂
Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite was inspired by a vintage poster John saw advertising a circus. I have a copy of it on my wall. It names Mr Kite, the Hendersons and a dancing horse amongst other acts. 😊
So many of their songs are big in their catalog
With a Little Help from My Friends is sung by Ringo
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds is sung by Lennon
Lucy is the Sun, the diamonds are the stars
this was the first album that they knew they wouldn't support by touring, so they really put more effort into production. some songs they never played in public live because they were practically created with a lot of editing (eg strawberry fields, lucy in the sky) if ypu are interested, Elton John did a great cover of Lucy in the sky
LSD magical mystery tour and Sgt peppers, what a time.
When you cant tell who's singing, it's usually Paul, he has a few singing voices. Paul has a soft voice, Johns is sharp, sings through his noise and sounds raspy
Favorite story around that album can be seen in Jimi Hendrix biopic when Jimi buy the album which just came out and decide to open his show with Sgt Pepper with the Beatles in the room
John Lennon singing lead on his song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds. Elton John did a great cover of this song.
I was sorry to not get your reaction to A Day in the Life as it may have been the most iconic song on the album. My fav, of many, Shes leaving home.