Thanks TJR. Your observations of this Magical Beatles album is great. You gave me an expanded understanding of some of the songs and the album itself. I was 14 in 1967. There was a party, in the Bronx. All we did was play Sgt. Pepper over and over. I don't remember anyone able to speak much. I appreciate your piano/music explanation of their chords. It's .nice to hear you explain the chords and their feel. Paul said as boys they would take a bus cross town to learn a new chord from a mate. They didn't read music which opened them up to play, and even make up chords that sounded great and just fit perfectly. I look forward to more of your Beatles videos.!!
For a deeper understand of this album, read "The memoirs of Billy Shears: the nine after 9-09 edition". There's a LOT more to this album than is being presented here.
This Bird Has Flown Its quite an elaborate joke. A fantastic amount of energy and artistry put into joke. Also were The Beatles talking to Manson? One two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven. Painted by the Manson family before or after Abbey Road came out? Always thought this question was never answered.
Excellent analysis ! I was 17 when Sgt Pepper was released and I never forget the moment I listened to it for the first time on the radio and was writing down brief notes about what I was listening to ... Presently, I also play lead guitar and compose short pieces for the instrument. And I deeply thank The Beatles for introducing me to music when I was only 14, in the beginning of 1965. Congratulations for your excellent analysis and many thanks !
Ringo was hesitant to sing the song because the original lyric was "would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me" and in those days people threw all sorts of things at them. He didn't want to start a new tradition. Also: The end vocal note (Frieeeeeends) on "E" above Middle C was high for Ringo's voice and he was concerned he couldn't sing it. Paul coached him and got the note.
That's great! I'm a huge Beatles fan I did not know those were the original lyrics and it strikes a chord with me because in 2009 I threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin (I missed thankfully) and got into a bit of trouble for it but I'm glad the Beatles thought about doing it before me 😁
What doesn't make sense to me about that is: if The Beatles knew they had played their last live show and were only gonna be a studio band from this point on - why would've that mattered anyway?
Dude every single thing you said was...is THE EXACT WAY I HAVE IMAGINED IT TO BE FOR ME MY ENTIRE LIFE...EXCELLENT VIDEO...YOU NEED TO DO MORE..YOU CONVEY IN WORDS THE MOST EXCELLENT WAY...ROCK ON BROTHER!
Thanks. I appreciate you sharing you experience with me....And It's good to know that I am not the only one who thought this way LOL........If you haven't done so already, you might want to check out my in depth analysis videos of Led Zeppelin I and IV too.
Thank you TJR for a wonderful analysis, especially the parts on With A Little Help From My Friends, and Lucy In The Sky. Your explanation about the musical thought that went into these pieces moved me. Such art pieces. Thank you again, and thank you John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
HA ha ha ha ha !! Guess what I'm laughing at . Not you - great vid , love the laughter part , obviously ! Never really caught that before , surprisingly , because I get into a lot of little details like that too .
In a way, many performing musicians use an altered ego on stage which is different from their "normal" state (Richard Starkey to Ringo Starr to Billy Shears). I enjoyed your analysis, I have a feeling that you had bright parents. It's a never ending treat to enjoy Beatles music. BTW, the names of the other members of the SPB were Mabel, Shirley and Kumquat.
Hi TJR , never noticed in a day in the life , When Paul takes over and John sings his aaaaahhhh aaaaahhh aaaaahh aaaaaahhhhh . It reminds me strongly on the Joe south song " hush " Also covered by deep purple and kulla shacker . I just want to say nobody talks bout this . You can listen to the originall song and purple , so you can give youre oppinion on this . If you have time ofcourse .
Also I heard Paul talking to a journalist in a taped interview,say he imagined Ringo tripping as he was going onto stage and that's what the audience was laughing at. So your bang on there. But he said that it wasn't set in stone and that it was only in his head. But that was the thing they laughed at.
This is great! I got my copy of Sgt. Pepper's for Christmas,when I was 12, in the late 1980s. I was already many years into Beatle fandom, though I was almost exclusively aware of and a fan of the mop top stuff. I lived for the Beatles, though oddly enough I had never heard Rubber Soul or Revolver or the White Album, etc.... I am very lucky to have had a real Sgt. Pepper mind expanse in the 1980s! But for me, the album's magic is still mysterious. I am digging your explanations and theories. You are opening up new layers of thought and also enjoyment of this record. BTW - a friend of mine's father is pictured on the Sgt Pepper cover. I am in a band with her son. She heard Sgt Pepper in Paul's apartment a week before it was released!
TJR man what an amazing video I loved it so much! I know this is only Part 1 but based on this video you have really changed my thoughts on how I listen to the album in a good way because when I listen to Sgt.Pepper I don't usually give the songs much thought on what there actually about but now when I listen to pepper I'll know they have a meaning and that will make me realize why Sgt.Pepper is truly #1
Subscribed! Great analysis! Thank you. I liked the "Love Me Do" in depth analysis as well. You're very interesting to listen to and the time goes too quickly, which means, you've done well while being entertaining.
Enjoyed this overview. It's fascinating that the inserted laughter of the "audience" was an artistic bull's-eye, as far as your receptiveness to the album goes, TJR. Since I was never acute enough to be drawn in by that--to wonder about it--you've really added an extra point of appreciation to the album for me.
After the first song of the album and we hear laughter, I heard Paul McCartney speak about this one time online. Ringo is making his way to the stage to get ready to sing the second song. He trips and falls making the audience laugh, gets up dusts himself off and precedes the same a Little Help from My Friends.
The idea of doing an album about their childhood has been kicking around a couple of years. This is as close as they got. You can really see this is the 2 songs that never made it on the album. Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. I think the final result was amazing in any case. This really was Paul McCartney's Magnum Opus. Getting Better & Fixing A Hole fly under the radar screen but are brilliant and well written songs. (I'm taking the time for a number of things, that weren't important yesterday) But as always, their best song on the album is a John song. IMHO.
Side two of Abbey Road was his magnum opus. The medley is so great, that guitar lick in Carry That Weight gives my soul pleasure. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window. Love them all but those are my favorites.
Julian's drawing is now in the possession of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. A lot of people think "Lucy" is all John's song, but Paul contributed a lot of lyrics including: "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" and "newspaper taxis appear on the shore".
Bonzo - both you and ModSquad are correct *and* incorrect. John himself said that Paul contributed to the lyric. John specifically said that the 'newspaper taxis' part was Paul's. The interviewer mentioned the newspaper taxis, which is why John happened to say 'That was Paul', so it doesn't mean that it was Paul's only part. Paul's own account is that he contributed the 'newspaper taxis' and 'cellophane flowers' parts. This is consistent with John's account. And if you want hard evidence check the handwritten lyric sheet (repro in Hunter Davies' book) where you can see the verses written in john's hand, the newspaper taxis and cellophane flowers parts added in Paul's hand. But I know of no evidence that Paul wrote 'plasticine porters'. Is there a source for that, ModSquad?
at 8 years old i stopped listening to physical music and moved to digital, a few years later i decided to pick up peppers on cd and everything changed it got me back into physical music, got me into vinyl and cassette best decision of my life
When you posed the question about what happens when a band is freed of touring and are without limits in the studio / having to worry about replicating the sounds live.... it reminded me of my all time favorite album "endserenading" by mineral: it's not experimental or as layered as this but the band was breaking up so they decided to add various overdubs and vocal harmonies since they wouldn't have to play live again. The result especially compared to their first more raw album was incredible. Also doesn't hurt to have genius mark trombone behind the boards. Must listen if you haven't Tim
I think omitting the other names shows the creative and open-ended sophistication of their approach. It reminds us that this is all just whimsical make-believe that we’re passing through, and that essentially it’s an album of songs.
The name came about during dinner aboard a plane trip back to England when Paul misheard Mal Evans mumbling to him to pass the salt and pepper, he laughed and said "what's that Mal? Sgt. Pepper"?
Although the audience disappear before Lucy. For me, the song is so in keeping with what's already gone that it denotes that the audience has settled down and are more into the performance seriously. And they only have a little comedy at the beginning and end.
Lucy technically is not about LSD. You don't see Lucy until the end of the song, there she is at turnstile. The song is about what LSD is not, it is about what you have been told by the media what LSD is like, and it is not like that. The song is actually, to jump a political fence here for a moment, about fake news, which was an active conversation among the hippies, sometimes the hippie news would be left out of the regular news.
TJR I enjoyed both the musical analysis and the more emotional and personal insights (images, "What are they laughing at?" etc...). I am curious to see your analysis of Fixing a Hole, Getting Better...
TJR Thanks for your answer , the way you express yourself is clear in its form and in its content. Iam 64 a child of the late sixties so my heroes are dead or over 70. Are you interested in CSNY?
Hey TJR, I really like your analysis, and particularly, the "flight of fancy" into the connections with Yellow Submarine. I guess it would take a conversation with Paul or Ringo to know that for sure, but art certainly allows for those kinds of retrospective creations. If Paul and John were thinking about that during YS, then that is reality. Ziggy Stardust didn't come along until five years later, proving once again that The Beatles got there first. What would pop music sound like today were it not for the Beatles? Would there have been a Led Zeppelin? What would Elton John have done?
Great video and I generally agree with your conclusions. The new Stereo Mix is far better than the original Stereo Mix, balancing out the sound more across the channels, however it is a different mix to the Mono Mix which for me is THE definitive version of Pepper. There are noticeable changes in the new mix, some inexplicable like the omission of the dog tone - why? The new Stereo Mix is enjoyable and I will listen to the 5.1 mix again, but my go-to version will always be the original Mono, as mixed by the Beatles themselves.
For musical artists not adopting alter egos until very recently- you have Marilyn Manson with the Antichrist Superstar character, Eminem with the Slim Shady character, My Chemical Romance with the Black Parade band, and David Bowie with the Ziggy Stardust character. There a whole ton of examples before Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.
YES. While I was not aware of some of the ones you mentioned, I have been kicking myself for years (Ever since I first posted this video) for not thinking of David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust (or the Thin White Duke for that matter). It’s the one thing I wish I could go back and change.
@@TJRtheOriginal well besides that very minor error you made, it's such an amazing analysis of the album. I could only dream of doing one that in depth, man. Great video.
Wasn't it released June 1st in 1967? It was only released may 26th this year because it was a friday. June 1 was a Thursday this year and albums are usually released on Fridays for obvious reasons.
Excellent video. Alice in Wonderland isn't just for children, it satirises a particular line of thinking in mathematics. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician.
Can you explain more about this? Have you ever watched the channel decode your reality? Connects Alice - gematria- and get this - the periodic table! I’m in awe of Alice- through the looking glass- I’ll forever study it - thank you for your comment
I have always felt that Lucy in the Sky was one of those songs that, had Lennon & McCartney spent a little more time on the writing, could have been turned into something even better. While the "drifting" verses are stunning, I think that the song is let down by the rather boorish, simplistic, chanted chorus. Yes, it does create an effective juxtaposition, but verses as beautiful, haunting and mysterious as these deserved a better crafted chorus.
As a friend of mine and I once discussed, the album is a concept in that it is psychedelicized Victoriana: the alias an ensemble like a Salvation Army band; the Lewis Carroll feel of "Lucy in the Sky"; the schoolboy mentions (in "Getting Better" and "Good Morning"); the domestic portraiture ("She's Leaving Home," "When I'm Sixty-Four," and "Lovely Rita"); the antique fairground ("Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"); the alias band's physical setting on the album cover; even "Within You Without You," as my friend observed, because we think of India's close connection with Britain as a Victorian thing. All this was heralded by "Eleanor Rigby," "Penny Lane," and "Strawberry Fields Forever." (Indeed, the actual Strawberry Field, which seems to have been built in Victorian times, was a Salvation Army children's home in the childhood period of the Beatles. According to Wikipedia, the Hunter Davies Beatle biography quotes Lennon's Aunt Mimi re the summer garden party held there each year: "As soon as we could hear the Salvation Army band starting, John would jump up and down shouting 'Mimi, come on. We're going to be late.'" Evidently, a splendid time was guaranteed for all.)
PS At variety.com/2017/music/spotlight/with-sgt-pepper-the-beatles-celebrated-britains-lost-empire-and-found-it-a-new-role-1202443612/ is a Variety article that might interest you, TJR. It's from May 25, the day before the Sgt. Pepper 50th-anniversary release. Headlined "With 'Sgt Pepper,' the Beatles Celebrated Britain's Lost Empire, and Found It a New Role," it includes the following: "As [the Beatles] created their masterpiece that was on the far shores [of] anything that had been envisaged by others in terms of music, the majority of the lyrics paradoxically looked back. Not in anger - but with gentle affection for the rapidly vanishing world of their childhood and in particular of Britain’s once proud Empire. It cherished the bygone Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian eras when the sun never set on the lands that Britain colonized and the waves that Britannia ruled. "The songs evoked decidedly English phenomena such as colliery brass bands, eccentric circus performers, quaint railway stations; hobbies such as knitting, sitting by firesides or on sofas with sisters; lonely hearts clubs, rocking horses, messing about on rivers, sending postcards, partaking of pies - both marshmallow and fish ‘n’ finger (the latter much desired by teenage boys) - all of course washed down with lashings of hot tea. There is no New York or New Orleans in sight. Just the decaying post-industrial northern town that was old Blackburn. And the final song on the album enshrines two enduring architectural symbols of the Victorian era - the House of Lords and the Royal Albert Hall. "These nostalgia-imbued lyrics were more Norman Rockwell than rock ‘n’ roll. And yet simultaneously the music took us into a brand-new promised land."
Actually, i feel like the alter ego concept is a bit older than modern pop - David Bowie, for example, famously appeared as Ziggy Stardust or The Thin White Duke. Other than that, fantastic video!
Did you see the movie “yesterday”? The yellow submarine people were the Mandela effected people - are you familiar with the Mandela effect? Oh and I KNEW I loved Lucy in the sky with diamonds for a deeper reason - Alice in wonderland and julians picture resonate sooo deeply with me 😇♥️here’s something to make you smile! I saw a commenter on TH-cam- subject? Best misheard lyrics - the commenter said “the girl with colitis goes by” 😜
This and many other Beatles recordings were made to be heard in mono and they sound much better that way. Also, the invention of stage monitors and modern stage setups which seems to have come into existence the day after the Beatles broke up, would have allowed them to hear themselves.
TJR You're welcome TJR, I had a quick look on wiki,The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands came out the end of '68 a year and a half or so after Pepper. it might be hard to find now but It's great fun listening to them playing all the different groups if you do manage to track down a copy.
In regards to the part where the audience laugh and we don't know what it is that they are laughing at. I've seen an interview where Paul says although he left it for the audience to wonder what was happening, he was personally thinking Ringo does a little comedy trip as he walks to the mic.
The purpose of the laughter is to have the listener imagine Billy Shears approaching center stage to sing his number, and he trips comically. Originally the lyric was 'What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?.' Ringo refused to sing that.
The greatest album in music history
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Brilliant insight. I was 13 yrs old at the time and a beatles fan. This album probably changed my whole perception of everything
Thanks TJR. Your observations of this Magical Beatles album is great. You gave me an expanded understanding of some of the songs and the album itself. I was 14 in 1967. There was a party, in the Bronx. All we did was play Sgt. Pepper over and over. I don't remember anyone able to speak much. I appreciate your piano/music explanation of their chords. It's .nice to hear you explain the chords and their feel. Paul said as boys they would take a bus cross town to learn a new chord from a mate. They didn't read music which opened them up to play, and even make up chords that sounded great and just fit perfectly. I look forward to more of your Beatles videos.!!
Thank you. I look forward to making more about the Beatles and other artists as well.
For a deeper understand of this album, read "The memoirs of Billy Shears: the nine after 9-09 edition". There's a LOT more to this album than is being presented here.
Can you elaborate on this. I'm curious about what you mean.
@@MICKEYISLOWD The Paul is dead theory. It's a joke.
@@ThisBirdHasFlown Ikr.
This Bird Has Flown Its quite an elaborate joke. A fantastic amount of energy and artistry put into joke. Also were The Beatles talking to Manson? One two three four five six seven all good children go to heaven. Painted by the Manson family before or after Abbey Road came out? Always thought this question was never answered.
Excellent analysis ! I was 17 when Sgt Pepper was released and I never forget the moment I listened to it for the first time on the radio and was writing down brief notes about what I was listening to ... Presently, I also play lead guitar and compose short pieces for the instrument. And I deeply thank The Beatles for introducing me to music when I was only 14, in the beginning of 1965. Congratulations for your excellent analysis and many thanks !
Ringo was hesitant to sing the song because the original lyric was "would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me" and in those days people threw all sorts of things at them. He didn't want to start a new tradition.
Also: The end vocal note (Frieeeeeends) on "E" above Middle C was high for Ringo's voice and he was concerned he couldn't sing it. Paul coached him and got the note.
Yes indeed....If I am not mistaken: Ringo mentions the tomatoes story in the hard cover book as well. Thanks for comment.
That's great! I'm a huge Beatles fan I did not know those were the original lyrics and it strikes a chord with me because in 2009 I threw tomatoes at Sarah Palin (I missed thankfully) and got into a bit of trouble for it but I'm glad the Beatles thought about doing it before me 😁
What doesn't make sense to me about that is: if The Beatles knew they had played their last live show and were only gonna be a studio band from this point on - why would've that mattered anyway?
GREAT analysis. Your best yet.
(For another musician's take on Sgt. Pepper, check out Sgt. Pepper's Musical Revolution on PBS)
Thanks again.
sunguar Hey, thanks for the information. Found it on daily motion!
Great video, very informative, as a Beatles fan from Liverpool in the beginning, very interesting...I love the new re-mix album, thanks...Mal UK
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed it. I am enjoying the new remix as well.
Your analysis is indeed very splendid!!!
Dude every single thing you said was...is THE EXACT WAY I HAVE IMAGINED IT TO BE FOR ME MY ENTIRE LIFE...EXCELLENT VIDEO...YOU NEED TO DO MORE..YOU CONVEY IN WORDS THE MOST EXCELLENT WAY...ROCK ON BROTHER!
Thanks. I appreciate you sharing you experience with me....And It's good to know that I am not the only one who thought this way LOL........If you haven't done so already, you might want to check out my in depth analysis videos of Led Zeppelin I and IV too.
Great video as always. One comment, surely David Bowie also created an alter ego with Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars?
Yes, you are spot on with David Bowie.....Thanks for bringing that up.
john caulfield also Aladdin Sane and Halloween Jack
john caulfield Yay! Was just going to comment that.
yes but ......after this
really enjoying your take on this, part 2 here we go...
Glad to hear.
Great analysis. Would like to see The Piper At The Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd or Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.
Thank you TJR for a wonderful analysis, especially the parts on With A Little Help From My Friends, and Lucy In The Sky. Your explanation about the musical thought that went into these pieces moved me. Such art pieces. Thank you again, and thank you John, Paul, George, and Ringo.
Glad to oblige.
I've enjoyed your Pepper-related commentary very much, especially as I have immersed myself in the remix.
Amazing Job TJ! I watched all your 4 videos and let me tell ya it was a trip like the original record to myself! Keep the good work!
Thanks! Will do!
HA ha ha ha ha !! Guess what I'm laughing at . Not you - great vid , love the laughter part , obviously ! Never really caught that before , surprisingly , because I get into a lot of little details like that too .
Glad you enjoyed it.
Great fucking analysis for what IS the best fucking album. A good album for a rainy day.
In a way, many performing musicians use an altered ego on stage which is different from their "normal" state (Richard Starkey to Ringo Starr to Billy Shears). I enjoyed your analysis, I have a feeling that you had bright parents. It's a never ending treat to enjoy Beatles music.
BTW, the names of the other members of the SPB were Mabel, Shirley and Kumquat.
Very cool review - thanks for uploading
Hi TJR , never noticed in a day in the life , When Paul takes over and John sings his aaaaahhhh aaaaahhh aaaaahh aaaaaahhhhh . It reminds me strongly on the Joe south song " hush " Also covered by deep purple and kulla shacker . I just want to say nobody talks bout this . You can listen to the originall song and purple , so you can give youre oppinion on this . If you have time ofcourse .
I will need to look this one up. Thanks for the heads up
Yes! I didn't think anyone else knew this when it's so obvious. I've never heard anyone mention it until now.
Brilliant analysis...looking forward to part 2...
Also I heard Paul talking to a journalist in a taped interview,say he imagined Ringo tripping as he was going onto stage and that's what the audience was laughing at. So your bang on there. But he said that it wasn't set in stone and that it was only in his head. But that was the thing they laughed at.
Excellent analysis. Can't wait for part 2.
This is great! I got my copy of Sgt. Pepper's for Christmas,when I was 12, in the late 1980s. I was already many years into Beatle fandom, though I was almost exclusively aware of and a fan of the mop top stuff. I lived for the Beatles, though oddly enough I had never heard Rubber Soul or Revolver or the White Album, etc....
I am very lucky to have had a real Sgt. Pepper mind expanse in the 1980s! But for me, the album's magic is still mysterious. I am digging your explanations and theories. You are opening up new layers of thought and also enjoyment of this record.
BTW - a friend of mine's father is pictured on the Sgt Pepper cover. I am in a band with her son. She heard Sgt Pepper in Paul's apartment a week before it was released!
Thanks for sharing your experiences with the album....and that last little bit of info is way cool!
TJR man what an amazing video I loved it so much! I know this is only Part 1 but based on this video you have really changed my thoughts on how I listen to the album in a good way because when I listen to Sgt.Pepper I don't usually give the songs much thought on what there actually about but now when I listen to pepper I'll know they have a meaning and that will make me realize why Sgt.Pepper is truly #1
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video.
Subscribed! Great analysis! Thank you. I liked the "Love Me Do" in depth analysis as well. You're very interesting to listen to and the time goes too quickly, which means, you've done well while being entertaining.
Enjoyed this overview. It's fascinating that the inserted laughter of the "audience" was an artistic bull's-eye, as far as your receptiveness to the album goes, TJR. Since I was never acute enough to be drawn in by that--to wonder about it--you've really added an extra point of appreciation to the album for me.
Cool. Thanks.
After the first song of the album and we hear laughter, I heard Paul McCartney speak about this one time online. Ringo is making his way to the stage to get ready to sing the second song. He trips and falls making the audience laugh, gets up dusts himself off and precedes the same a Little Help from My Friends.
The idea of doing an album about their childhood has been kicking around a couple of years. This is as close as they got. You can really see this is the 2 songs that never made it on the album. Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. I think the final result was amazing in any case. This really was Paul McCartney's Magnum Opus. Getting Better & Fixing A Hole fly under the radar screen but are brilliant and well written songs. (I'm taking the time for a number of things, that weren't important yesterday) But as always, their best song on the album is a John song. IMHO.
Side two of Abbey Road was his magnum opus. The medley is so great, that guitar lick in Carry That Weight gives my soul pleasure. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window. Love them all but those are my favorites.
Brilliant! Can't wait for part 2!
WOW nice job on this . !!! You have a good DJ voice !!. And his lp ROCKS ,
Thanks....Stay tuned for more. :)
Julian's drawing is now in the possession of David Gilmour of Pink Floyd.
A lot of people think "Lucy" is all John's song, but Paul contributed a lot of lyrics including: "plasticine porters with looking glass ties" and "newspaper taxis appear on the shore".
ModSquad no he didn't it's John's lyric completely
Bonzo - both you and ModSquad are correct *and* incorrect. John himself said that Paul contributed to the lyric. John specifically said that the 'newspaper taxis' part was Paul's. The interviewer mentioned the newspaper taxis, which is why John happened to say 'That was Paul', so it doesn't mean that it was Paul's only part. Paul's own account is that he contributed the 'newspaper taxis' and 'cellophane flowers' parts. This is consistent with John's account. And if you want hard evidence check the handwritten lyric sheet (repro in Hunter Davies' book) where you can see the verses written in john's hand, the newspaper taxis and cellophane flowers parts added in Paul's hand. But I know of no evidence that Paul wrote 'plasticine porters'. Is there a source for that, ModSquad?
at 8 years old i stopped listening to physical music and moved to digital, a few years later i decided to pick up peppers on cd and everything changed it got me back into physical music, got me into vinyl and cassette best decision of my life
When you posed the question about what happens when a band is freed of touring and are without limits in the studio / having to worry about replicating the sounds live.... it reminded me of my all time favorite album "endserenading" by mineral: it's not experimental or as layered as this but the band was breaking up so they decided to add various overdubs and vocal harmonies since they wouldn't have to play live again. The result especially compared to their first more raw album was incredible. Also doesn't hurt to have genius mark trombone behind the boards. Must listen if you haven't Tim
ANXIOUSLY awaiting part 2.
I think omitting the other names shows the creative and open-ended sophistication of their approach. It reminds us that this is all just whimsical make-believe that we’re passing through, and that essentially it’s an album of songs.
The name came about during dinner aboard a plane trip back to England when Paul misheard Mal Evans mumbling to him to pass the salt and pepper, he laughed and said "what's that Mal? Sgt. Pepper"?
I really liked your analysis of And I Love Her. Never really gave it the proper respect until your own comments on it. Thanks.
I really like your musical analysis videos. Great stuff.
Thanks.
TJR , this is analysing with style . Cant wait on part 2
Thanks. Working on part II :)
Outstanding.Very insightful and informative analysis. Thank you for this.
Thank you! Looking forward to Part 2.
Although the audience disappear before Lucy. For me, the song is so in keeping with what's already gone that it denotes that the audience has settled down and are more into the performance seriously. And they only have a little comedy at the beginning and end.
Lucy technically is not about LSD. You don't see Lucy until the end of the song, there she is at turnstile. The song is about what LSD is not, it is about what you have been told by the media what LSD is like, and it is not like that. The song is actually, to jump a political fence here for a moment, about fake news, which was an active conversation among the hippies, sometimes the hippie news would be left out of the regular news.
I particularly appreciate the chord / rhythm / tune analysis and demonstrations on your keyboard
Thanks
had a great time listening to your analysis! thx :-)
Glad you enjoyed it.
TJR I enjoyed both the musical analysis and the more emotional and personal insights (images, "What are they laughing at?" etc...). I am curious to see your analysis of Fixing a Hole, Getting Better...
Great analysis TJR. AS EVER PEACE ✌
Right on!
Tanks a lot TJR i love your videos about the Beatles .
You are welcome....and stay tuned for more vids about the Beatles and other artists as well.
TJR Thanks for your answer , the way you express yourself is clear in its form and in its content. Iam 64 a child of the late sixties so my heroes are dead or over 70. Are you interested in CSNY?
Very good idea, waiting for 2nd part and analyze of others albums!
Thanks working on it.
this video is incredible, it made me smile so much
Glad you enjoyed it.
Love this kind of analysis. Quite entertaining...
Well done, TJR you have a wonderful way of articulating your perspective, and as ever, entertaining.
Thank you.
Very interesting, especially where you show the chords and explain the musical value of them.
..GREAT!!!...love The Beatles,..begining to love you.. ;) Peace Ron
Great work mate. Gives me a greater appreciation of their talent. GAZ
Hey TJR, I really like your analysis, and particularly, the "flight of fancy" into the connections with Yellow Submarine. I guess it would take a conversation with Paul or Ringo to know that for sure, but art certainly allows for those kinds of retrospective creations. If Paul and John were thinking about that during YS, then that is reality.
Ziggy Stardust didn't come along until five years later, proving once again that The Beatles got there first. What would pop music sound like today were it not for the Beatles? Would there have been a Led Zeppelin? What would Elton John have done?
And PS WHY do Ads have to pop up IN BETWEEN these videos. And BTW it says Part 1. So the review isnt done here. Stay tuned for more.
All four parts are done. Ads appear so that I can earn a little money for all the work that I pour into them.
Great video and I generally agree with your conclusions. The new Stereo Mix is far better than the original Stereo Mix, balancing out the sound more across the channels, however it is a different mix to the Mono Mix which for me is THE definitive version of Pepper. There are noticeable changes in the new mix, some inexplicable like the omission of the dog tone - why? The new Stereo Mix is enjoyable and I will listen to the 5.1 mix again, but my go-to version will always be the original Mono, as mixed by the Beatles themselves.
For musical artists not adopting alter egos until very recently- you have Marilyn Manson with the Antichrist Superstar character, Eminem with the Slim Shady character, My Chemical Romance with the Black Parade band, and David Bowie with the Ziggy Stardust character. There a whole ton of examples before Mariah Carey and Beyoncé.
YES. While I was not aware of some of the ones you mentioned, I have been kicking myself for years (Ever since I first posted this video) for not thinking of David Bowie and Ziggy Stardust (or the Thin White Duke for that matter). It’s the one thing I wish I could go back and change.
@@TJRtheOriginal well besides that very minor error you made, it's such an amazing analysis of the album. I could only dream of doing one that in depth, man. Great video.
Wow. Thanks for sharing such interesting content!
Who is this guy? This analysis is f'ing awesome.
Thanks.
Wasn't it released June 1st in 1967? It was only released may 26th this year because it was a friday. June 1 was a Thursday this year and albums are usually released on Fridays for obvious reasons.
Also, in '67, the album was previewed on radio stations starting May 26.
Excellent video. Alice in Wonderland isn't just for children, it satirises a particular line of thinking in mathematics. Lewis Carroll was a mathematician.
Can you explain more about this? Have you ever watched the channel decode your reality? Connects Alice - gematria- and get this - the periodic table! I’m in awe of Alice- through the looking glass- I’ll forever study it - thank you for your comment
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Bingo!
Wow... I had a lot of similar thoughts with Sgt. Peppers Song. Brilliant
Great video thank you so much love all the Beatles stuff you do
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Awesome analysis!!
Very interesting... thank you for the post
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You are the bomb! Great I will listen to this one two three times maybe more!
most excellent
I have always felt that Lucy in the Sky was one of those songs that, had Lennon & McCartney spent a little more time on the writing, could have been turned into something even better. While the "drifting" verses are stunning, I think that the song is let down by the rather boorish, simplistic, chanted chorus. Yes, it does create an effective juxtaposition, but verses as beautiful, haunting and mysterious as these deserved a better crafted chorus.
Perhaps as the chorus represents the drawing of a child it ought to be simplistic ...
The harmonies make it all gold for me, especially Paul coming in on the high end
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David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
You are absolutely RIGHT! I can’t believe I didn’t think of those.
BTW: It looks like you have a cool channel. I will be taking a closer look.
Amazing analysis. Thanks.
No mistake the second song on the album is about the insecurity that they might not live up to being the Beatles
As a friend of mine and I once discussed, the album is a concept in that it is psychedelicized Victoriana: the alias an ensemble like a Salvation Army band; the Lewis Carroll feel of "Lucy in the Sky"; the schoolboy mentions (in "Getting Better" and "Good Morning"); the domestic portraiture ("She's Leaving Home," "When I'm Sixty-Four," and "Lovely Rita"); the antique fairground ("Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!"); the alias band's physical setting on the album cover; even "Within You Without You," as my friend observed, because we think of India's close connection with Britain as a Victorian thing. All this was heralded by "Eleanor Rigby," "Penny Lane," and "Strawberry Fields Forever." (Indeed, the actual Strawberry Field, which seems to have been built in Victorian times, was a Salvation Army children's home in the childhood period of the Beatles. According to Wikipedia, the Hunter Davies Beatle biography quotes Lennon's Aunt Mimi re the summer garden party held there each year: "As soon as we could hear the Salvation Army band starting, John would jump up and down shouting 'Mimi, come on. We're going to be late.'" Evidently, a splendid time was guaranteed for all.)
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PS At variety.com/2017/music/spotlight/with-sgt-pepper-the-beatles-celebrated-britains-lost-empire-and-found-it-a-new-role-1202443612/ is a Variety article that might interest you, TJR. It's from May 25, the day before the Sgt. Pepper 50th-anniversary release. Headlined "With 'Sgt Pepper,' the Beatles Celebrated Britain's Lost Empire, and Found It a New Role," it includes the following:
"As [the Beatles] created their masterpiece that was on the far shores [of] anything that had been envisaged by others in terms of music, the majority of the lyrics paradoxically looked back. Not in anger - but with gentle affection for the rapidly vanishing world of their childhood and in particular of Britain’s once proud Empire. It cherished the bygone Georgian, Edwardian and Victorian eras when the sun never set on the lands that Britain colonized and the waves that Britannia ruled.
"The songs evoked decidedly English phenomena such as colliery brass bands, eccentric circus performers, quaint railway stations; hobbies such as knitting, sitting by firesides or on sofas with sisters; lonely hearts clubs, rocking horses, messing about on rivers, sending postcards, partaking of pies - both marshmallow and fish ‘n’ finger (the latter much desired by teenage boys) - all of course washed down with lashings of hot tea. There is no New York or New Orleans in sight. Just the decaying post-industrial northern town that was old Blackburn. And the final song on the album enshrines two enduring architectural symbols of the Victorian era - the House of Lords and the Royal Albert Hall.
"These nostalgia-imbued lyrics were more Norman Rockwell than rock ‘n’ roll. And yet simultaneously the music took us into a brand-new promised land."
Actually, i feel like the alter ego concept is a bit older than modern pop - David Bowie, for example, famously appeared as Ziggy Stardust or The Thin White Duke. Other than that, fantastic video!
Thanks. I did goof forgetting about David Bowie. At Some point I want to make a super cut of all the 4 parts and correct that part of it.
@@TJRtheOriginal that would be fantastic! I can’t find the other parts for some reason but i’d be looking forward to that!
Billy shears had won Paul McCartney look-alike contest.
Thoughtful and Insightful.
Thank you.
Pepper's may have been an alter-ego for Mac and the Beatles, but it also fit well with the developing militaristic super-ego of Lennon.
this is wonderful thankyou for this and for sharing your knowledge.
You are welcome
Did you see the movie “yesterday”? The yellow submarine people were the Mandela effected people - are you familiar with the Mandela effect? Oh and I KNEW I loved Lucy in the sky with diamonds for a deeper reason - Alice in wonderland and julians picture resonate sooo deeply with me 😇♥️here’s something to make you smile! I saw a commenter on TH-cam- subject? Best misheard lyrics - the commenter said “the girl with colitis goes by” 😜
LOL. That is funny.
David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust
Excellent video, I do remember Garth Brooks trying a rather bizarre alter ego.. did not go over so well, but I enjoyed the music regardless
nicely done ... really. thank you.
And another alter ego was Ringo playing the part of Frank Zappa in 200 Motels.
I enjoy this.
Glad to hear.
there are 3 master masons on the cover no.1 Karl Marx no.2Jules Verne no.3Alestier Crowley
What about Robert Zimmerman?😃
This and many other Beatles recordings were made to be heard in mono and they sound much better that way.
Also, the invention of stage monitors and modern stage setups which seems to have come into existence the day after the Beatles broke up, would have allowed them to hear themselves.
Great videos. Thanks
Great video!
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great stuff TJR. not sure if The Turtles Battle of the bands came before or after Pepper
I had never heard of this...THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH ME!
TJR You're welcome TJR, I had a quick look on wiki,The Turtles Present The Battle of the Bands came out the end of '68 a year and a half or so after Pepper. it might be hard to find now but It's great fun listening to them playing all the different groups if you do manage to track down a copy.
In regards to the part where the audience laugh and we don't know what it is that they are laughing at. I've seen an interview where Paul says although he left it for the audience to wonder what was happening, he was personally thinking Ringo does a little comedy trip as he walks to the mic.
What about Ziggy Stardust as alter ego. Or may be The Who’s Tommy. To name just 2 albums.
thank you for making this,
You are welcome
This being my #1 album ever, I really appreciated all the time you put into this, I like all your stuff.
Dear Prudence is based on the same chord progression
The purpose of the laughter is to have the listener imagine Billy Shears approaching center stage to sing his number, and he trips comically. Originally the lyric was 'What would you do if I sang out of tune, would you stand up and throw tomatoes at me?.' Ringo refused to sing that.
May 26th???? Where the hell'd you get THAT information??? It was released June 1st in England and June 2nd in America!!
Thank you for this !