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...Stills Band and called Ray Charles "a blind, ignorant nigger" in a misbegotten effort to outrage his adversaries. Most recently, if you've been paying close attention, you hear that E.C. has recently "matured and has metamorphosed into the the Cole Porter of the 80s," has created the "new Seargent Pepper" with his new album, Imperial Bedroom, and is generally considered these days the Mr. Wonderful of contemporary...
...playing with styles by no means stopped when they began performing only their own compositions. On "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" they play at being...well, Seargent Pepper's Band for one thing. The play at being sixty-four. And they play with different states of consciousness: they play at being lonely, at being stoned(and while stoned), and at going insane...
...early last June, another Beatles demonstration took place. Thousands of people went to record shops and bought the Beatles' 13th album, Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Few of these people were Beatlemaniacs; many of them were Beatleologists. Whereas the Beatlemaniac drowned out the Beatles with cathartic squeals, the Beatleologist listens so carefully that he can hear Ringo singing submarine in the third verse on the mono record, but clubmarine on the stereo. Beatleologists, in varying degrees of erudition, are the new breed of Beatles fan, and they may make the Beatles more contemplated than Buddha...
There is a rumor that the Beatles wanted to rename themselves "Seargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," and that the album cover depicts a wake at the grave of that old and outdated group called the Beatles. The new name stirs up nostalgic images of a group of old Edwardians seated on a bandstand in military uniforms playing brass marches in a simpler age of long summer afternoons. The Beatles may also know that the Edwardian age was one of violent idealistic movements, once described as "Britain's national nervous breakdown," and much closer our own age than most...
Corporal Henry Finch of Roslindale took the CRIMSON staff car through rows of sentries who kept vandals from the devastated areas to the sand banks where some of the Harvard men were on guard. "We are shifted all around," said Seargent Geoffrey W. Lewis '34, former tutor and assistant dean, "sometimes we're on a highway, sometimes in a cranberry...