Pepper’s and its ambitions helped to codify the rock band as artists rather than popular entertainers. Instead, the Beatles had completed their shattering of the rules of light entertainment, even halting their own live performances, which they’d never again do together for a paid audience.Įven as they mocked this old version of a performing band, ironically Sgt. The record opens with a phony live performance by the Lonely Hearts Band, a sort of Vegas act-the sort of thing that, in 1963, people thought the almost certainly soon-to-be-passé Beatles would be doing themselves in 1967. (This was actually the second concept earmarked for the Beatles’ next LP the original, a record of songs about Liverpool, was abandoned when its first two tracks were needed for the group’s next single, “Strawberry Fields Forever”/“Penny Lane.”) Probably for the best, little of the fictional-band vision for the record made it through what did last from that conceit are a few tangential ideas-a satirical bent on popular entertainment and a curiosity with nostalgia and the past. The concept, of course, is that the record was to be recorded by the titular fictional band, a washed-up rock’n’roll group on the comeback trail.
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