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    The album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was produced by George Martin as the soundtrack to the 1978 film of the same name starring the Bee Gees. It featured various artists covering songs by the Beatles. Though it sold well initially, the album received poor reviews and was eventually returned by stores due to low sales after the film's release. It came to be seen as a failure and hindered the popularity of some of the involved artists like the Bee Gees.

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    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a


    double album produced by George Martin,[1]
    featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. It was
    released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the
    film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band,
    which starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton
    and Steve Martin.

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club


    Band

    Soundtrack album by various artists


    r
    Released 17 July 1978

    Recorded September 1977–May


    1978

    Studio Cherokee Studios, Los


    Angeles; Northstar
    Studios, Boulder, CO;
    Record Plant, New
    York City; Abbey Road
    Studios, London; Air
    Studios, London

    Genre Glam rock, pop, disco,


    hard rock

    Length 83:08

    Label RSO, A&M


    (UK/Canada)

    Producer George Martin


    Maurice White ("Got
    to Get You Into My
    Life" only)

    Overview …

    The project was managed by the Robert


    Stigwood Organisation (RSO). In 1975, the
    original plans for the album were suspended
    due to a dispute between Columbia and
    RSO.[2] RSO invested $12 million into this
    soundtrack and the profit offset set against
    costs such as $1 million for promotion.[3] The
    creation of the soundtrack was marked with
    tension from the beginning, with Frampton and
    the Bee Gees both feeling wary of the other
    artist as well as being unsure as to how their
    music would work together on the same
    album.[4]

    The release made history as being the first


    record to "return platinum", with over four
    million copies of it taken off store shelves and
    shipped back to distributors.[5] Hundreds of
    thousands of copies of the album ended up
    being destroyed by RSO. The company itself
    experienced a considerable financial loss and
    the Bee Gees as a group had their musical
    reputation tarnished, though other involved
    bands such as Aerosmith were unscathed in
    terms of their popularity.[4]

    The album has been released on compact disc.

    Critical reception …
    Professional ratings
    Review scores
    Source Rating
    AllMusic [6]

    Encyclopedia of Popular Music [7]

    The Rolling Stone Record Guide [8]

    The Village Voice D+[9]

    In a contemporary review for The Village Voice,


    music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a
    D+ rating with an added "Must to Avoid"
    warning. He wrote that, apart from the Earth,
    Wind & Fire and Aerosmith songs, "most of the
    arrangements are lifted whole without benefit
    of vocal presence (maybe Maurice should try
    hormones) or rhythmic integrity ('Can't we get
    a little of that disco feel in there, George?')"[9]
    Writing in The Rolling Stone Record Guide in
    1983, Dave Marsh dismissed the soundtrack as
    "An utter travesty" and "Easily the worst album
    of any notoriety in this book." Marsh identified
    Aerosmith's "Come Together" and Earth, Wind
    & Fire's "Got to Get You into My Life" as the
    only competent renditions and concluded:
    "Two million people bought this album, which
    proves that P.T. Barnum was right and that
    euthanasia may have untapped possibilities."[8]
    According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
    AllMusic, the album suffers from clumsy
    performances by the Bee Gees, Frankie
    Howerd and Peter Frampton, as well as
    performers who were poorly suited to their
    song, including Steve Martin, George Burns
    and Alice Cooper. Erlewine says that the
    soundtrack has become "a legend in its own
    right" due to its unenviable reputation and
    adds that, while it has attracted a cult
    following, "there's no erasing the fact that this
    is an absolutely atrocious record".[6]

    Commercial performance
    …
    and fallout

    Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band


    debuted at number 7 on the U.S. Billboard
    album chart[10] and stayed at number 5 for six
    weeks.[11] Although there was reported
    resistance to the interpretation of the Beatles'
    songs, such as Martin's comedic take on
    "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", Earth, Wind &
    Fire's version of "Got To Get You Into My Life"
    became a million selling single,[12] while Robin
    Gibb's "Oh! Darling" and Aerosmith's version
    of "Come Together"[13] both charted in the top
    40.

    Radio airplay trailed off when the film was


    released with poor reviews, only five weeks
    later. The album immediately dropped out of
    the top 100 and pre-sale shipments to USA
    failed to sell in the quantities predicted.[14]
    Owing to low box office receipts the film failed
    to make back its production costs, but profits
    from the soundtrack album and the successful
    singles it spawned later covered those
    losses.[15]

    The Bee Gees blamed their declining popularity


    in part on their involvement with the whole
    project, coupled with their mutual struggles
    with drug addiction. The latter was
    exacerbated by the environment of making the
    film and its soundtrack, with Maurice Gibb
    expressing shock at seeing crew members
    carrying around bags full of cocaine. Robin
    Gibb in particular spent much of this period
    having to dose himself with barbiturates to
    even be able to sleep.[4] Some of the most
    vicious criticism of the soundtrack was leveled
    at them, and the musicians felt a particularly
    painful sting at being labeled as mere "Beatles
    imitators" since that sort of pejorative tag had
    been with them since they began their pop
    rock work in the 1960s. (Although the Bee
    Gees would continue to be popular into 1979,
    that year's backlash against disco, a genre in
    which the band had made their biggest impact,
    marred their careers permanently.)

    George Martin had agreed to become involved


    in the project due partly to the amount of
    money offered for his services, and to his
    wife's suggestion that any other producer
    might afford the songs less respect than they
    were due.[16] The selection by Earth Wind &
    Fire was the only track he did not work on.
    According to author Robert Rodriguez, Martin
    later rued his involvement in Sgt. Pepper.[17]

    Track listing …

    [18]

    Side
    one
    No. Title Artist(s) Length
    1. "Introducing – 4:42
    Sgt. Pepper's The Bee 1:56
    Lonely Hearts Gees and 2:46
    Club Band" Paul
    "Sgt. Nicholas
    Pepper's Peter
    Lonely Hearts Frampton
    Club Band" and The Bee
    "With a Little Gees
    Help from My
    Friends"
    2. "Here Comes Sandy 3:45
    the Sun" Farina
    3. "Getting Better" Peter 2:46
    Frampton
    and The Bee
    Gees
    4. "Lucy in the Sky Dianne 3:41
    with Diamonds" Steinberg
    and
    Stargard
    5. "I Want You The Bee 6:31
    (She's So Gees,
    Heavy)" Dianne
    Steinberg,
    Paul
    Nicholas,
    Donald
    Pleasence,
    Stargard

    Side
    two
    No. Title Artist(s) Length
    1. "Good Morning Paul 1:58
    Good Morning" Nicholas,
    Peter
    Frampton
    and The
    Bee Gees
    2. "She's Leaving The Bee 2:41
    Home" Gees, Jay
    MacIntosh
    and John
    Wheeler
    3. "You Never Give Paul 3:07
    Me Your Money" Nicholas
    and Dianne
    Steinberg
    4. "Oh! Darling" Robin Gibb 3:21
    5. "Maxwell's Steve 4:31
    Silver Hammer" Martin
    6. "Rise to – 5:11
    Stardom Suite" The Bee 0:38
    "Polythene Gees 1:46
    Pam" Peter 1:14
    "She Came in Frampton 1:33
    Through the and The
    Bathroom Bee Gees
    Window" The Bee
    "Nowhere Gees
    Man" Peter
    "Sgt. Pepper's Frampton
    Lonely Hearts and The
    Club Band Bee Gees
    (Reprise)""

    Side
    three
    No. Title Artist(s) Length
    1. "Got to Get You Earth, Wind 3:36
    into My Life" & Fire
    2. "Strawberry Sandy 3:31
    Fields Forever" Farina
    3. "When I'm Frankie 2:40
    Sixty-Four" Howerd
    and Sandy
    Farina
    4. "Mean Mr. Frankie 2:46
    Mustard" Howerd
    5. "Fixing a Hole" George 2:25
    Burns
    6. "Because" Alice 2:45
    Cooper and
    The Bee
    Gees
    7. "The Death of – 3:24
    Strawberry" Peter 1:39
    "Golden Frampton 1:45
    Slumbers" The Bee
    "Carry That Gees
    Weight"

    Side
    four
    No. Title Artist(s) Length
    1. "Come Aerosmith 3:46
    Together"
    2. "Being for the Peter 3:12
    Benefit of Mr. Frampton,
    Kite!" The Bee
    Gees, and
    George
    Burns
    3. "The Long and Peter 3:40
    Winding Road" Frampton
    4. "A Day in the Barry Gibb 5:11
    Life" and The Bee
    Gees
    5. "Get Back" Billy Preston 2:56
    6. "Sgt. Pepper's Full cast 2:13
    Lonely Hearts
    Club Band
    (Finale)"

    Personnel …

    [18]

    George Martin — Arranger, Producer

    Greg Adams — Trumpet

    Robert Ahwai — Guitar

    Wilbur Bascomb Jr — Bass

    Jeff Beck — Guitar

    Larry Carlton — Guitar

    Alice Cooper — Vocals

    Ray Cooper — Percussion

    Earth, Wind & Fire — Performers

    Sandy Farina — Vocals

    Victor Feldman — Percussion


    Peter Frampton — Vocals, Guitar

    The Bee Gees — Performers

    David Hungate — Bass

    Stephen "Doc" Kupka — Baritone saxophone

    Max Middleton — Synthesizer, Keyboards

    Francis Monkman — Moog Synthesizer

    Paul Nicholas — Vocals

    David Paich — Keyboards

    Jeff Porcaro — Drums

    Billy Preston — Vocals, Hammond Organ

    Bernard "Pretty" Purdie — Drums,


    Percussion

    Tommy Reilly — Harmonica

    Ray Russell — Guitar

    Singles

    Charts and certifications

    See also
    Notes

    References

    External links
    Last edited 14 days ago by GoingBatty

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