Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

one of the most revolutionary and influential pieces of art in all recent history: The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. This album immediately made waves within society, and continues to have a profound impact on people today. It had changed how music was delivered, recorded, and listened to, while also helping to move society in a direction of major change. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was not simply a piece of art through the music it contains, but also through the imagery it portrays proudly on its album cover. This cover is 144 square inches of beautiful color, profound subjects, and intricate symbolism. At first glance, one notices the wide…

idolizes and being famous is one the most sought after titles in my generation. Famous figures tend to define the culture of the eras they come from. They became so idolized and followed, that people almost forget they are humans, just like us, and that they are plagued with the same feelings, temptations, and flaws that we all have. A group that has almost surpassed fame is The Beatles. They are a band known world-wide for the music they created in the 1960’s and became an icon for an entire…

Pepper’s possesses a bevy of unique sounds and song structures that pop albums simply did not explore at that time. The title-track features a heavy, fuzz-guitar played against a wall of triumphant horns. The harpsichord in “Fixing a Hole” gives the song a Victorian Era flare. “She’s Leaving Home” is perhaps the album’s gentlest song with its swirling harps and heavenly strings. “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” is a psychedelic journey through a circus atmosphere, while “Within You Without…

The Indian Influences throughout Beatles’ Career The Beatles, one of the most famous and influential bands of all time, was formed in 1960. The original four were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best. They started touring in August 1960 in Hamburg, Germany played at least five and an half hour every night. In 1962, they met Brian Epstein and Epstein was impressed with the music The Beatles were making. As a result, The Beatles hired Epstein as their manager. Later in their…

what music can be. Here are just 10 of the top rock albums of all time, which have furthered the genre and subsequent subgenres, and inspired other artists to pick up a guitar and jam. Number Ten: Fleetwood Mac, ‘Rumors’ Fleetwood Mac’s second major label album, Rumours saw the recently reformed band at their most emotionally raw. Featuring such hits as “Dreams” and “Go Your Own Way,” many of the songs are various takes on love and breaking up. Rumours is the band’s best-selling album to date…

I attended Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, 50th Anniversary Celebration concert at the Division of Fine & Performing Arts at Paradise Valley Community College. There were two sides to the program, the first one included the album of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the second program consisted of a mixture between songs from the albums Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, and Abbey Road. They had a band that consisted of many vocalists, and instrumentalists and also, an…

Regarded as one of the most famous and rock bands in history, the Beatles were formed in Liverpool, U.K. in 1960. They started out as a small band performing in private clubs in the U.K., and pretty soon their popularity spread across the entire world. Although there were a few other members during their years active, the original members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. The Beatles hold the record for having twenty number-one hits on Billboard magazine. They…

The band The Beatles originated from Liverpool, England. The four members of the band is Paul Mccartney one of the main vocalist and is the bass guitar, John Lennon who plays rhythm guitar and is one of the main vocalist, George Harrison who is lead guitar and sometimes sings, and Ringo Starr who plays drums. The band’s name before The Beatles was The Quarrymen and Ringo would be the last Beatle to join the band. The band’s debut album was “Please Please me” which Parlophone had rushed released…

Magical mystery tour is an album by The Beatles that released in United Kingdom under Parlophone label, and united States under Capitol Records which distributed worldwide, with two different format, the album was released with a six song double EP in the UK and an 11 song album in the United States and elsewhere, Magical Mystery Tour happened to be the soundtrack to the film with the same title that was originally broadcasted by the BBC on December 1967. The loss of Brian Eipstein (Beatles…

Out of all the music I have heard recently, the one that I believe was the best exhibit source for this assignment was “Getting Better” by the Beatles. Unlike the other songs in the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, this one has an indirect tension that is prevalent as the band explores some cheerful, hopeful reminiscences, strung together to create this musical piece. The main anecdote that this song embodies is that of the once hospitalized Ringo Star, who had tonsillitis and…