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...that swept the U.S. in 1963, and Macushla's blue eyes would turn glassy at the sound of it all. The undisputed leaders of the revolution are The Dubliners, five bearded, brawling musical assailants whose style is just about as far removed from the McCormack idiom as Sgt. Pepper is from The Chocolate Soldier...
...rapidly approaching the age when a person usually turns to more conservative music. But I still feel pop music! Shunned by my girl for keeping beat with the album, I seek reassurance that Sgt. Pepper is one of the greatest sounds ever recorded. Thanks for your finely written support...
They have transformed themselves from a "live" performing team to an experimental laboratory group, and they have staked out the recording studio as their own electronic rumpus room. To achieve the weird effects on Sgt. Pepper, they spent as much as 20 hours on a song, often working through the night. The startling crescendo in A Day in the Life illustrates their bold, erratic, but strikingly successful method. Says Paul: "Once we'd written the main bit of the music, we thought, now look, there's a little gap there; and we said oh, how about an orchestra...
...Philharmonia, who had trouble following the recipe. Unaccustomed to ad-libbing, they had to be cajoled by John and Paul, who threaded among the musicians, urging them to play at different tempos and to please try not to stay together. Partly as a result of filling that "gap," the Sgt. Pepper album cost three months of work and $56,000 -which is about as much as it costs to record five albums for London's New Philharmonia Orchestra...
Whatever else it comes to, the Beatles' approach to recording Sgt. Pepper will serve as a model for future ses sions. And the boys themselves will be commanding more and more of the technical operations. "We haven't pushed George Martin out of the engineers' booth," says McCartney, "but we've become equals. The music has more to do with electronics now than ever before. To do those things a few years ago was a bit immoral. But electronics is no longer immoral...