Various - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band - kr 250,-

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Various - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band

Begynte å samle plater på midten av 70 tallet, legger nå ut en del plater for salg, samlingen er meget pent behandlet og oppbevart i plast cover, flere plater vil bli lagt ut etter hvert.

Selger nå en LP med Peter Framton, Bee Gees og forskjellige artister ellers.

Dobbel LP - Gatefold sleeve

Released: 1978 -US

Utgitt på / Label: RSO - #RS-2-4100

Genre: Rock - Pop - Stage&Screen

Style: Pop Rock

Vinyl EX+, omslag EX

Number sticker, øverst venstre hjørne, kan enkelt fjernes.

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Wikipedia

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin, 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.

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. RSO invested $12 million into this soundtrack and the profit offset set against costs such as $1 million for promotion. 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.

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. 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.

The album has been released on compact disc, and along with the soundtrack of Stayin' Alive, one of the only two Bee Gees-related titles for which the master tapes remained with Universal Music when the band gained control of its catalogue.

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 the USA failed to sell in the quantities predicted. 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.

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. 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. The selections by Earth Wind & Fire and Aerosmith were the only tracks he did not work on. According to author Robert Rodriguez, Martin later rued his involvement in Sgt. Pepper.

Personell:

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