![]() ![]() In other words, they didn’t want to just exorcise the group that made “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, they wanted to smother them with a pillow. McCartney had even come up with an alter ego and pseudo-unifying backstory-a move Lennon later said only worked because the band said it worked. Where The Beatles had once sought to distil and consolidate, now they were looking to expand. McCartney in particular had been fascinated by things like Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention’s 1966 debut, Freak Out!, a double album whose hodgepodge of songs, noise, skits and sound gags mirrored conceptual art’s breaking of the painterly frame. Pepper’s, Bob Dylan had released Blonde on Blonde, an album so expansive it had to literally be pressed onto two records, while The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds stretched the dimensions and possibilities of the three-minute pop song. A few months before The Beatles were set to record Sgt. Songs got longer, albums grew concepts and the idea of the LP as a concise product meant to showcase a performer’s talents gave way to the suspicion that commercial concerns ultimately only served The Man. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band helped set the precedent that rock bands could (and should) do more or less whatever they wanted. In the studio The Beatles encouraged George Martin to achieve "the impossible" and in turn, George and the engineers would find innovative ways of realising this despite still using only four-track equipment.For better and worse, Sgt. Of course the music was more complex and now that touring was over, there was no need to consider what could be reproduced in front of a live audience. Between November 1966 and April, 1967, they spent over 400 hours in the studio - a far cry from the Please Please Me days. Now that touring was behind them more time could be spent writing and recording. ![]() Revolver had only just been completed in time prior to the band flying off on yet another tour. ![]() Work had begun on the recording in late 1966 and at one stage it was thought that both Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever would also be included but when these were released as a single in February, that idea was abandoned. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the band's eighth album became the soundtrack to the "summer of love" but its appeal is timeless. ![]()
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