THE FATHER OF CONCEPT ALBUMS!!! (Sgt. Peppers - The Beatles) Full Reaction!

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• KA

  @katrinabrede9613 · 1 year ago

  The Sitar is the instrument that you're hearing and enjoying.  George Harrison became fascinated by Indian music and began incorporating it into the Beatles sound.

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• RO

  @robertsmith1860 · 1 year ago

  I read in a book about the Beatles’ history, that while traveling on a plane to their next gig, they were eating a meal. A Beatles’ assistant asked Paul to pass the salt & pepper… but Paul mistakenly heard him say, “Sargent Pepper”!

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• FR

  @Frankincensedjb123 · 1 year ago (edited)

  This was a pivotal moment in pop music. The Beatles were really the first band to turn pop music into more complex experimental, orchestrated music with shifting time signatures, multiple sections, and orchestrated instrumentation. The producer George Martin was often referred to as the fifth Beatle because of his input on instrumentation. Lots of great songs on here.

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• TO

  @TomorrowNeverKnows626 · 1 year ago

  Sgt Pepper’s was a concept album in theory more than in practice. It was Paul’s idea to create an album where they are doing a live performance as a fictional band in an effort to create an excuse as to why their music sounds so radically different from previous work.<br><br>While the album does keep the theme of a novel sound in their music, the concept of the fictional band playing live stops after With A Little Help With My Friends and isn’t revisited until the reprise.

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• CH

  @charlotte_is_sorry · 6 months ago

  i know this is already an older video, but its the first ive seen of yours and already im subscribed. its always refreshing to see reactions of the beatles by people who you can tell genuinely love music

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• LO

  @louisme5411 · 1 year ago

  Maybe try Magical Mystery Tour next?

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• GP

  @gpxo11 · 1 year ago (edited)

  Gibberish at the end was &quot;never could be any other way&quot; with bye bye underneath. The cover art on the album represents the new Beatles sound while the old Beatles and their sound has died-hence the graveyard scene. The Beatles moved on from being the mop top idols to studio muscians.

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• FE

  @fegmaniax · 1 year ago

  I Love that you Love this album ❤ I do too, ever since!!! Born in 1961... So I was around then ❤❤❤

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• SO

  @sourisvoleur4854 · 1 year ago

  The circus sound of Mr. Kite, during the &quot;Henry the Horse Dances the Waltz&quot; part, I mean the background sounds, was made by taking tapes of calliope music (a calliope was a steam-powered organ used in circuses), chopping them into one foot lengths, then taping them end to end, with no care about whether it&apos;s going forwards or backwards.

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• AL

  @althealligator1467 · 1 year ago

  There&apos;s actually not much to understand story-wise beyond the title tracks, the concept is more aesthetic than anything. Sgt. Pepper&apos;s is easily the most important album in popularizing the idea of an album being a piece of art in and of itself as opposed to just a compilation of songs that weren&apos;t pushed as a single which is what albums first were (and why you&apos;ll notice a bunch of the Beatles&apos; biggest hits aren&apos;t on their albums even though you&apos;d be crazy not to do that nowadays). But this is definitely not the first album at all to have any kind of a concept beyond being a compilation of songs, Woody Guthrie&apos;s Dust Bowl Ballads is one of the first and that&apos;s the 40s. The Beach Boys album Pet Sounds from 1966 is probably the biggest influence on this album and how experimental it was, but The Beatles had already started experimenting like crazy on Revolver the year before Sgt. Pepper&apos;s and most of it was recorded before Pet Sounds came out, like Revolver is the most sudden shift in sound ever for an artist or music in general.

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• LA

  @larrymiller9698 · 1 year ago

  Great reaction! &nbsp;New sub here. &nbsp;I am 70 years old and watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1963 when I was 8 years old, and remember it like it was yesterday 🙂. &nbsp;I’m very impressed that your generation (especially you) is discovering the roots of rock, and really most music you hear today has some genetic link to the Beatles in one way or another. &nbsp;Please continue your journey and endeavor to listen to their entire catalog (including solo work post-Beatles) before you die. &nbsp;It’s medicine for the soul. &nbsp;<br>I would also like you to listen to a relatively new (started 2008) group and see where the Beatles lead to 50 years later. &nbsp;<br>The group’s name is Dirty Loops and they are from Sweden. &nbsp; They are all college level trained and are (IMO) one of the best 3 piece bands on the planet today.<br>The lead singer is noticeably influenced by MJ and a young Stevie Wonder (think Paul), the bassist was influenced by Flea from Red Hot Chili Peppers who I’m sure heard Paul play bass growing up, and the drummer is just perfect for the band (think Ringo). &nbsp;Anyway, I think you’ll find the evolution of music from the Beatles to this group interesting. &nbsp;You seem to be open to new and different, as well as the roots. &nbsp;<br>I’ve heard (lived) all the roots, so now I look for new and genre changing. &nbsp;<br>Please, check out Next To You by Dirty Loops. &nbsp;Trust me Bruh….🤘🏻😎

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• VI

  @VIDSTORAGE · 1 year ago (edited)

  On the UK Sgt Pepper vinyl albums &nbsp; &apos;&apos; never could be any other way &apos;&apos;&apos; &nbsp;was pressed on the &nbsp;run-out groove ...

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