The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band To be Recreated

Particularly those of them who listen to R&B or hip-hop.

I'm sure there will be a hip hop and RnB version of Sgt Peppers along before the years out.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/events/60sseason/documentaries/sgtpeppers.shtml

If a bunch of bands recreate classic Beatles songs, does anybody care?

Yesterday's "tribute":

Bryan Adams - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Kaiser Chiefs - Getting Better
Razorlight - With A Little Help From My Friends
The Fray - Fixing A Hole
Magic Numbers - She's Leaving Home
Travis - Lovely Rita

I assume the heavy hitters will do the next round, which airs on the 16th.

ew

I listened to them...I wanted to like them, because to hate them would be a bit predictible, no? But they aren't very good. And this is coming from someone who loves the Sam & Mark version of "With A Little Help From My Friends". Perhaps the next batch will be better.

this must be a hoax

Pop stars of today covering Beatles songs, you say?

KIDS NEED TO BEATLES.

One of the things I hate most about today's mainstream rock scene is how everyone falls over themselves to be reverent toward the past.

i saw some of the program but with the sound down, was on the phone. anyway the songs they were taclking were the most "song-like" ones in the sense everything was being boiled down to trad guitar band basics it all seemed so the opposite of what makes pepper historically so special, it's deliberate "hai look i is in yr studios not playing rock 'n roll" vibe. i really wonder who will cover the "difficult" songs (within you, without you, and a day in the life).

Maybe Iggy or "DJ Peretz" can do "Good Morning, Good Morning" so that the crucial rooster calls can simply be substituted with an actual cock.

Could be Mickey Avalon's big break, actually--

I can recreate Sgt Peppers whenever I want. Big fucking deal.

Oh good, another shitty cover of the song "Sgt Peppers." How many are there now??

Bill, if Sun City Girls could "play A Love Supreme" then you can "play Sgt. Pepper's".

It's actually a really fun album to play from start to finish.

That didn't sound right.. "Play" meaning playing it yourself with a guitar and singing, in your bedroom, bored, when no one is listening

No, I know.

Sun City Girls did a show in Seattle once which was billed as "Sun City Girls play A Love Supreme". The show consisted of them onstage with a phonograph, sitting in chairs listening to ALS while nodding appreciatively and smoking.

UH. From the official Sparks website the other day:

Russell is performing this Friday (September 21st) at the MITO SETTEMBRE MUSICA FESTIVAL

'It was 40 years ago today...' 2007 marks four decades since The Beatles' era-defining album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band first turned the pop/rock world on its axis. Now, in this anniversary year, the London Sinfonietta recreates this 1960s classic with a stellar cast of performers.

In addition to Russell Mael, the line-up includes Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithful, Beth Orton, The Residents, Robyn Hitchcock, Peter Murphy, Badly Drawn Boy and Alex Chilton.

The amazing Baby Lemonade is the rock band.
Jurjen Hempel conducts.

I mean seriously, I boggle at that.

Wow, Robyn and his Murphyness -- together at last.

Terrible idea, but I must say, the reunited Libertines (basically) doing "A Day in the Life" was the best moment of the "project".

Jeez. What a line-up. Youtube pulls through for us once again:

Russell does When I'm 64.
Jarv does With A Little Help From My Friends.

You realise that Beth Orton sacked an Annie Lennox sponsored "Peace" concert to do that Sgt Pepper gig?

One look at the lineup should make anyone sack a gig w/Lennox.

(mind you, one look at most anything would make me sack a gig/w/lx)

well rubbish

> Jarv does With A Little Help From My Friends.

that's going to be confusing given that the other J Cocker has already done a version.

Terrible idea, but I must say, the reunited Libertines (basically) doing "A Day in the Life" was the best moment of the "project".

-- Erock Zombie, Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:18 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

um okay.

- sgt pepper lonely hart club band - baby lemonade
- with a little help from my friend - jarvis cocker
- lucy in the sky with diamond - beth orton
- getting better - badly drawn boy
- fixing a hole - alex chilton
- she's leaving home - marianne faithfull
- being for the benefit of mr kite - the residents
- within you without you - peter murphy
- when i'm 64 - russel mael
- lovely rita - badly drawn boy
- good morning, good morning - robyn hitchcock
- sgt pepper (reprise) - robyn hitchcock
- a day in the life - marianne faithfull/jarvis cocker

I think I'd rather go to an Annie Lennox concert, tbh.

At least she might do "No More I Love Yous"

fixing a hole - alex chilton
she's leaving home - marianne faithfull
being for the benefit of mr kite - the residents

^^this bit sounds awesome

What's confusing about what I said ? The Carl Barat / Pete Doherty version of "a Day in the Life" is the "Best" moment on a worthless idea of an album.

Confused ?

there's an album?

where?

I did hear the Razorlight version of "little help"

No Borrell on it, the drummer sings. Which is appropriate (naturally), and quite amusing.

Well, all the mp3's are on soulseek. I call it an "Album" because it's a note for note remake of an album, so, even though it's a retread, it IS its own beast.

But it is bad

Here's a review of the Milan gig I found on a different board in the world:

alex chilton was a disgrace

you people ask me if i'm going to see another concert in my life

jarvis fucking cocker badly drawn boy of my ass peter murphy of your fucking cojones

what a bunch of morons who dont know how to sing a song - if somebody was there who never heard sgt peppers in their life, they are going home now wondering what the fuck is all this fuzz about an album of such bad songs (which are not bad of course)

yeah nick, that orchestra was a disgrace too

only good thing marianne f. (she is leaving home and a day in the life, this one with that jarvis idiot), robyn hitichock who was pretty good and beth orton (lucy in the sky with diamonds)

and the fucking residents, 4 idiots masqueraded with 3 of them doing nothing and one pretending to sing

god