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...Barnes has said, "This is pop-pop, or commercial pop, with little aspirations to art--2 clever dilution of ... pop music. Fundamentally, it is pure Broadway--but Broadway 1969 rather than Broadway 1949. . . . It's noisy and cheerful conservatism is just right for an audience that might wince at Sgt. Pepper...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: If Conrad Birdie Came Back to Broadway, Would He Have to Drop Some Acid First? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...While some of these (like "Walking in Space" and another number called "Be-In") have too much Broadway sound and too many lyrics that only Life would find hip, some of the others are honest, simple and firmly based in the rock music vocabulary of the pre-Sgt. Pepper's and Hendrix days. One of the authors. Rado, does "Manchester England," a piece happily in the early-Stones idiom in which he asserts, "I believe in God/ And I believe that God believes in Claude/ That's me." this and others (particularly, the very similar "I Got Life") have...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: If Conrad Birdie Came Back to Broadway, Would He Have to Drop Some Acid First? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...spoof, the situation, whatever comes out is a collage of jokes, not simply a collection. Lines fall disjointedly and still very much in unison; and the composite result is the Proposition's own Sgt. Pepper's Band. Like the Beatles, there are the songs and then there are the Beatles. While you hum the songs, you love the Beatles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Proposition | 2/10/1969 | See Source »

...MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) takes out after a murderer with a preference for photographic models in World Premiere: Dragnet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Cinema, Books: Jan. 24, 1969 | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: The Top Ten | 1/10/1969 | See Source »

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