![]() ![]() I still think that notwithstanding its brilliance it is questionable whether as a sum of its parts it equals other Beatles albums, before or after. ![]() ![]() I had heard Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields by then, but the only songs from the album as such that I recognised were When I’m 64 and With a Little Help From My Friends, possibly only from covers, so the material was farily new to my ears. I was extremely disappointed by this album which I thought sounded muddy compared to other Beatles efforts. I was a Beatles fan by default almost, to people of my generation they were just there, and you expected them to come out with brilliant things. I first heard Sergeant Pepper in about 1974 I think, I borrowed it from a friend at school when I would have been about 16. It was a wild time, and it feels to me like a time warp – there we were in a magical wizard-land with velvet patchwork clothes and burning joss sticks, and here we are now soberly dressed. We were only doing what the kids in the art schools were all doing. I maintain The Beatles weren’t the leaders of the generation, but the spokesmen. All I am saying is: we weren’t really trying to cater for that movement – we were just being part of it, as we always had been. There was definitely a movement of people. The actual mood of the time was more likely to be The Move, or Status Quo or whatever – whereas outside all of that there was this avant-garde mode, which I think was coming into Pepper. And it wasn’t just the general mood of the time that influenced us I was searching for references that were more on the fringe of things. The idea wasn’t to do anything to cater for that mood – we happened to be in that mood anyway. The mood of the album was in the spirit of the age, because we ourselves were fitting into the mood of the time. John Lennon: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, Hammond organ, cowbell Paul McCartney: vocals, electric guitar, bass, piano, Lowery organ George Harrison: vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, tambura, sitar, maracas Ringo Starr: vocals, drums, harmonica, tambourine, maracas, congas, bongos, chimes George Martin: Hammond organ, Lowery organ, piano, pianette, harpsichord, harmonium, glockenspiel Mal Evans: harmonica, Hammond organ, piano, alarm clock Neil Aspinall: harmonica, tambura Erich Gruenberg, Derek Jacobs, Trevor Williams, José Luis Garcia, Alan Loveday, Julien Gaillard, Paul Scherman, Ralph Elman, David Wolfsthal, Jack Rothstein, Jack Greene, Granville Jones, Bill Monro, Jurgen Hess, Hans Geiger, D Bradley, Lionel Bentley, David McCallum, Donald Weekes, Henry Datyner, Sidney Sax, Ernest Scott: violin John Underwood, Stephen Shingles, Gwynne Edwards, Bernard Davis, John Meek: viola Dennis Vigay, Alan Dalziel, Reginald Kilbey, Allen Ford, Peter Beavan, Francisco Gabarro, Alex Nifosi: cello Cyril MacArthur, Gordon Pearce: double bass Sheila Bromberg, John Marston: harp Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie, Frank Reidy, Basil Tschaikov, Jack Brymer: clarinet Roger Lord: oboe N Fawcett, Alfred Waters: bassoon Clifford Seville, David Sanderman: flute Barrie Cameron, David Glyde, Alan Holmes: saxophone David Mason, Monty Montgomery, Harold Jackson: trumpet Raymond Brown, Raymond Premru, T Moore, John Lee: trombone Alan Civil, Neil Sanders, James W Buck, Tony Randall, John Burden, Tom (surname unknown): French horn Michael Barnes: tuba Tristan Fry: timpani, percussion Marijke Koger: tambourine Unknown musicians: dilruba, svarmandal, tabla, tambura Tracklisting Released: 1 June 1967 (UK), 2 June 1967 (US) Personnel ![]()
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