Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly They deliberately pulled themselves out of Beatlemania." Pepper" to places pop music had never been), told Phillips, "Like a champagne bottle plopping out of a cork, they were released from Beatlemania. Giles Martin, the son of George Martin (the legendary Beatles producer and the man behind the technological inventiveness that took "Sgt.
So we're trying to get better with things like recording." The Beatles (Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison and Paul McCartney) at the Abbey Road recording studios in London. "Performance, for us, see, it's gone downhill, performance, because we can't develop when no one can hear us," he said. It was a different kind of album - the concept album, performed by a different kind of band, a band that couldn't hear itself think, let alone play, over the screaming of its fans.Ī band, as Paul McCartney explained back in 1967, that had to retreat to the recording studio to find itself again. It was more than just a different kind of album cover full of famous people. But the album did more than win awards and set sales records it divided time, between the world before "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" won four Grammys, including Album of the Year. It was fifty years ago this month, actually, that "Sgt. Right from the first "ka-thump" of stylus hitting vinyl, and into the instrumental run-in to the first track … you knew the world would never be the same. With Mark Phillips this morning, we'll be doing some time traveling: 1968 was a year like no other, not least because it was the year The Beatles won four Grammys for an album like no other.
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