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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- Howard Goodall explores why Sgt Pepper is still seen as so innovative, so revolutionary and so influential, with the help of outtakes and studio conversations between the band. 50 years ago this week, on 1 June, 1967, an album was released that changed music history - The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Beatles were so brilliant it can easily move a person to tears . The music of the Gods
This is more than a documentary, it is a tribute to Sgt Peppers and The Beatles. Brilliant. Should have milliions of thumbs up, not only 1.3 thou.
He also does a separate documentary called The Beatles A musical appreciation and analysis
This guy is smartZ
This was the Beatles turning pop music into Art! Using the studio with the guidance of George Martin and his arrangement and editing skills, they were unstoppable!
As a classically educated and trained child *Penny Lane* was the very first pop song that blew me away, I mean the middle part with the Baroque trumpet, but also Paul´s Bach inspired bass lines. I didn´t know the chords in the first place but I could play them all on the piano by just following his bass. So *Penny Lane* became my fav Beatles song and two years later I joined my first band.
This is by far the best video about Beatles recordings I've ever seen.
Check out Goodall's other full featured Beatles video: "The Beatles: a musical appreciation and analysis by composer, Howard Goodall CBE". it is equally excellent.
What an age to have lived in! Howard, great voice, fluid piano, you're in the zone.
What a superb documentary. I originally saw this when it was first shown on the BBC and have wanted to see it again ever since. Thank you for putting it up on UA-cam, it is as good as I remembered it to be. This really illustrates why The Beatles were and still are, so important in the history of music.
This album, it seems to be popular at times to be maligned. Fine. But to me, at 12 years old and deeply discovering music, specifically The Beatle, first heard this album on the first day of school in my Music Class. The (first year teacher) music teacher asked if we wanted to sing from those horrible little music books, or listen to the latest Beatles album. We voted for the album. And it seems extreme even to me today, that album changed my life. It was a very good sound system, and I had never heard anything quite as good as that. That album haunted me. I had to dive deeper. And I did. And here I am, 57 years later. So yeah, that was a landmark recording. If for no one, but me.
And Penny Lane and Strawberry fields was rushed out before it was released, imagine how good it could have been
Mine too.
@@liamoconlocha3264what?
Popular to be maligned? Really? Yeah, I read the news today, but it didn’t say anything close to that absurd statement.
@@patrickdelaney8094 well, Patrick, you're missing the news, because many have attacked the a.bum as over produced etc et .
An unbelievably great upload. Been listening to this album since I first bought it as a teenager in 1967 when it was released. Now nearly 60 years later, it’s understandable why Sgt. Pepper is a timeless classic. Forget the flash-in-the-pan 21st century musicians (cough, cough, Taylor Swift). People will be listening to this album for hundreds of years to come.
An excellent demonstration of why this is the greatest pop recording of all time. And you could easily spend another hour on the technical side of the album, how sounds were recorded, mic'd and mixed (there's also the differences between the album's mono and stereo mixes). If its impact feels muted today, that's the result of all revolutions. Its reverberations resonate through literally everything to the point where you take it all for granted. You cannot conceive of a world before its impact. Why am I thinking of the giant space rock that killed the dinosaurs? It's one of those things.
The beauty of Howard Goodall is that he can take a song/album that I love dearly, and fill in the cracks of my musical shortcomings so comprehensively that I'm left feeling embarrassed that I 'merely' loved the same song/album previously. FML
I like how an actual musician breaks all that down.
The birth of Abstract rock a true timeless masterpiece unequaled in its importance to 20th century music.
Ringo’s drumming in Day is nothing short of brilliant.
Agreed, and his drumming in Good Morning, Good Morning is also worthy of praise.
I don't like how Ringo is too often seen as a sort of afterthought. Oh, we needed a drummer, so. . . To my mind, Ringo was the glue holding the whole thing together. Not to get too symbolic about it, he was literally the pulsebeat, the beating heart of the group. Try extracting his drum tracks and see how far you get with those songs. But it was Ringo's unassuming nature and self-effacement (and the sad blue eyes and floppy hair, not to mention crazy phrases like A Hard Day's Night and Tomorrow Never Knows) that really endears him to me. He was just an ordinary bloke performing an extraordinary task. How soon would the whole thing have blown up without his good-natured peacekeeping? He had three egos to herd and tend to, and he did a splendid job of it and kept it together much longer than it would have without him.. Best of all, he's still with us, and some of us are finally realizing that HE was the coolest Beatle of all.
THAT WAS PAUL - JUST ASK HIM.
@@RobertBush-cb1gz That ole rascal "Paul" rewriting Beatles history yet again
@@ferociousgumbyan afterthought…by WHO….just You, obviously
Mr. Goodall does the Beatles album the respectful analysis that it deserves. I loved it. Learned lots of things even though I've been listening to the Beatles since 1963 and I saw them live in Toronto in 1964 (I think it was that date). Could not hear their music as it was drowned out by thousands of shrieking (moistly girls). Shocked me to see teenage girls pass out in a frenzy. But, I was hooked and remain a fan, all these decades later.
not forgetting the smell of pss-stained seats that the screaming girls left under them
Moist girls, love it! Ha!
I went to England for the first time in 2008. I was 16 years old and, as I was a massive Liverpool FC fan, had gotten a trip to Liverpool as a confirmation present. I'd listen to a few of the Beatles' singles before the trip and was thorougly impressed, so while at the Beatles museum I bought a CD of Sgt Pepper's. When I got back home to Norway, the first thing I did was to put the CD on. 40 minutes later I was sitting on the floor, staring in disbelief. What the hell did I just listen to? I had never heard anything like it and I absolutely hated it. Waste of space, time and money.
A year later I was looking through the CD rack when I stumbled upon this mythical piece of music. I put it on. From the first second to the last it was the greatest experience I've ever had. It changed me. If I had to pick two desert island discs, I'd probably pick two copies of Sgt Pepper's in case one of them broke.
I felt the same way about the white album. Totally understand.
@@WayneFawcett-v1h They're just different. My grandad saw them live in Hamburg when he was a sailor. Nothing special, he thought. If he'd had a camera that night he'd sit on a goldmine.
Interesting
Absolutely brilliant. Not only a detailed forensic explanation of several cuts, but a fascinating journey back into my very impressionable young teen years.
I'm not a monster Beatles fan but this was fascinating. There are minerals more musical than me, but Howard's explanations and little demonstrations make the theory clear.
Howard is such a brilliant musical analyst. Thanks for putting this on!
Remember that when they were making this masterpiece, the oldest of them (Ringo) turned 27. John was still 26, Paul 25, and George had just turned 24. It's bloody ridiculous.
It is astonishing , but one thing it's easy to overlook is that they had already been playing together for 9 years. And George Martin was NOT in his 20s...🎉
Look at The Beatles time line itinerary from the Hamburg days, right up until the very final recordings prior to the official break up.
The Beatles never rested, even when they stopped touring in 1966. ❤
Excellent documentary !! Goodall's analysis is simply brilliant...
Superb documentary
It’s long been fashionable to argue Revolver is a better album. Much as l love it, this documentary gives a clear indication as to why SP is in a place on its own. Arguably the twentieth century’s artistic peak.
Best and deepest dive into Sgt Peper EVER! But still so much he could have added to it. Time restraints... It needs to be a film really!
The first time I ever heard any recorded music in stereo, a friend placed headphones on me and played Strawberry Fields. I couldn't believe my ears! The illusion prompted me briefly to take off the phones in disbelief. I thought the music must have been coming from the room!
Far superior to anything on the web. Scholarly, detailed, informative, and great fun. Brilliant to the power brilliant.
Your documentary is a real Christmas gift Mr. Goodall !
It is the definitive exploration of this watershed moment in music history.
Merci !
The "Join" between take 7 (band take) and take 26 (Cellos and trumpets take) in "Strawberry Fields Forever" is not where Howard says it is at 12:46 in this video. It happens at about 0:59 into the song at the start of the second chorus, right after the line "It doesn't matter much to me." The edit is on the first line of the Chorus on the first syllable of the word "going." The part Howard plays ("That is I think I disagree") is about 2:30 into the song.
That bit had me screaming at the telly when I first watched this otherwise excellent doc.
Watched it on the BBC when it came out back 2017 at the time of the 50th Anniversary and the box set/new remix came out. Great info from Howard there, could watch and listen him talk on all things music for hours.
What’s the title on BBC? I’d love to see this. More length and depth than this?
Amazing how I would Just find this 5 years gone by. Enthralling, Excellent Piece! Thank you for your post Finn! You have my like and sub Sir.
@@hammurhead1 Im glad u like it mate... A lot of fab four vids Are censorer by the algorithm..
Same, not sure how I missed it for all these years. Very well done. It must be going around the YT algorithm.
Astounding to think that within 18 months the Beatles released Rubber Soul, Revolver a little thing like the 45 Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane, Pepper and All you need is love.
Thank you for uploading this jewel :)
Brilliany breakdown of Pepper. As a 57 year-old fan of The Beatles and a stuggling beatleoligist I loved the insight you brought to a piece of art that effected me deeply when my Mom brought home Pepper for me when I was 13 and from the moment I dropped the needle, my soul was transformed.
Brilliant breakdown of 'Pepper'.
...when my mom brought home 'Pepper' for me, aged 13. From the moment I dropped the needle, my soul was transformed.
Absolutely a masterful documentary. Simply incredible information for this ground breaking LP 🎉❤
Sgt Pepper is art. This analysis also puts it into the context of Western music's cultural heritage and why I and many believe it to be one of the most significant albums of music ever recorded. It's also so nice having someone who truly appreciates how music is constructed carefully explain to me why l should like it so much. Thanks! Howard... The Beatles along with George Martin, were a creative force that will live on. They will be playing A Day in the Life (one of the greatest songs ever composed) for decades to come.
Centuries at least, I imagine.
Fabulous piece Howard, THANK YOU!
My favourite album of all times I grew up with it i still remember when my mom bought it back in 1968 it was played every day the next couple of years I was 5 years old but I it loved since then and forever, this analyze whas so good you got the whole analyze of all the most iconic tracks so good that I weaped thousand thanx for this documentary Love 😅 TAO from Sweden
Thank you for the gentle introduction in this outstanding masterpice of great English culture! And especially thanks for you perfect English language, understandable for foreigners.
What a treat to listen to the breakdown of these songs in the studio. TA. Very original and an insightful perspective on the Sgt. Peppers eclectic sound that as a teen in the eighties adored and still to this day holds up. Just my opinion but the best thing the Beatles ever did was quit touring and went into the studio that at that time and became the medium of the message at that time as McCluhan used to say. The Studio and technology, changed music. Imagine if they had eight tracks for this album instead of four ?
It's always a jolt when you hear a Beatles song and it strikes me again and again how good it is, was and still is to listen to. Almost nothing can compare to what the Beatles achieved in a brief seven years. The only recent event that we denote "before and after" to is 9/11. But50+ years later we mark a "before and after" to the Beatles era. They were a group of four individually talented artists that together had a musical alchemy unmatched since. It was as Paul has said just magic!
Fantastic, creativity and heavenly talent unsurpassed
George Martin said that not having Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane on the Sgt Pepper was his biggest mistake.
It was, but in the US, they would have screwed it up anyway
Yes, agree ! The question would be "where would these 2 tunes be located on the album" ?
I have watched your videos on The Batles as well as your series on the components of western music. You make it easier for us to understand true genius at work. Thank you for this one,
Takk for at du lastet opp denne! Flott dokumentar
What a wonderful presentation!
George Martin said the biggest mistake he made in his career was leaving Strawberry Fields & Penny Lane off of Sgt Pepper. Pepper is an extraordinary album anyway but with those two tracks it would be hands down the greatest pop album of all time.
What a lot of people miss when comparing Pepper to this or that Beatles album is the sonic landscape they created (it was far and away the best sounding record coming out of England up to that point in time) and the idea that Pepper was a unified body of work, or a ‘concept’ album as that idea came to be known. It actually wasn’t a concept album but it seemed that way at the time.
Howard Goodall has always been a brilliant presenter and his breakdown of Strawberry Fields just shows the amazing serendipity that ran through the Beatles story, all these unintended consequences and happy accidents that almost mystically took their music to a level above most other groups of the period.
To add, the song It’s All too Much was also recorded originally in these sessions, but ended up on Yellow Submarine album. That one has become one of my favourites.
Just when yiou thiought the Beatles were the greatest band of all time, turns out they're even better!
I bought my first copy of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band that first or second week of June, 1967. I had been 'playing' guitar for several years, and I would turn the ripe old age of 11 in the third week of that June. As a budding musician, a middle class son of two professional people who had already divorced some 8 years previous, I didn't stand a fart's chance in a hurricane. My family life was a shambles,s had been for as long as I could remember, and along comes this 'birthday gift' to me, and that was it... I would be a musician no matter what, (regardless of what my parents, who had less than zero credibility in my view, - had to say in the matter, and they said plenty). I moved out a few years later, as I turned 15, and, still attending junior high school, began getting gigs. By age 17 I was studying classical guitar and piano at the Royal Conservatory, and shortly thereafter I got my first steady job playing Fender bass with an established Top 40 dance band whom had already been playing weekly for over a decade, and from which I would derive my living for the next several years, until I got with a singer/songwriter who'd recently had a #1 hit, and by 1980 I found myself recording his next album at the Record Plant, in LA, with some very famous and accomplished people. In retrospect, even though I was able to carve out a decent living playing music, (as well as working in several other creative disciplines such as photography,) this would be the 'high point' of my career. I had several other chances at 'grabbing the brass ring of success' such as it was, but wasn't ever able to reach those lofty heights to which we all aspire in the performing arts. I eventually wound up on the faculty of one of the world's most prestigious universities, as an adjunct professor in performing arts studies. And realistically, I can 'blame it all' on that single week in June 1967, when four lads from an obscure town named Liverpool, released an album with the unlikely title of Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. ('And it was 20 years on - away, I was near Liverpool, but not to play'... when an unrelated project brought me to Birmingham's NEC, as a trade show exhibitor in 1987, followed by a week's vacation in London.)
Your presentation is really quite good, and I'm very glad to have found it. There are priceless nuggets here that I've never encountered anywhere else, such as how the transition in the first verse of Strawberry Fields sounds without the use of varispeed, and several other tasty deconstructivist tidbits. Thanks for this!
Brilliant documentary. Flawlessly presented. Fascinating.
absolutely brilliant! I have been searching for this well presented documentary for years!
Ground Zero for Prog Rock. And Hendrix arrives. What a time. Absorbing and energising.
Such a brilliant analysis
Fantastic to see this again, so glad it popped up out of the blue. As a child at school we watched Goodall's Music Time each week, a children's musical education programme he presented. It was so inspiring watching him communicate the fabric of music in such an informative and passionate way, and had me hooked on music for life.
It's a testament to his brilliance that Paul McCartney himself watched this very programme and, thinking he knew everything about the album he'd created, actually discovered things he'd forgotten or didn't even realise they'd done. And he then fed what he'd learnt directly into the new music he was working on.
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Amazing! Thank you for sharing!
They gave up touring to develop their music. Other bands kept touring because they didn't or couldn't develop further. They were happy to sit on their laurels and stsy in their comfort zone. THAT is why the Beatles were and still are the biggest band in the world
Just excellent.
I wish someone could upload a version with spanish subtitles so i can show this to my friends and family
Revolver and Rubber Soul were just regular albums. You may like the songs better on those albums but you weren't alive like me when Pepper came out. Forget the songs. As a 14 year old when I saw that album, no one had seen an album like that before. First the Beatles didn't look like the mop tops anymore. They all had mustaches. They were wearing colorful army type uniforms. The album opened up. There were cutouts included. They had the lyrics on the back. Pepper changed everything. 🎸 🥁 🎶
Wonderful - really enjoyed this.
Great doco. Love Howard’s analysis. One correction: the point in SFF where the join occurs is incorrectly stated here - the doco has it at the beginning of the final chorus, whereas it actually happens after the second verse. Surprised this error got through unnoticed. But still, as good a review of Sgt Pepper’s as I have seen. Well done, Howard!
I stopped watching after that blatant/amateurish error and immediately went to the comments to see if anyone else noticed, and you did!
No reason to watch any further...
Really great and really useful documentary
Check out Mr. Goodalls Beatles musical appreciation video. Inspired me to buy the sheet music for I am the Walrus to play on the piano. Quite difficult but still trying to learn it.
Simply fantastic!! 🎉🎉 documentary! And I love the story behind Mr.kite ..Brillante⚡️In " Lucy In the Sky with Diamond "' the Idea of Lennon wanting to sound like a child makes the song fantastic! And peoples the Beatles had the most classiest pronounciation of the English language just Superb 🎉 ❤... love this most creative artiistic, colorful, loving band of the entire planet!! 🪲🪲🪲🪲🍏🎭💜💜🕊
Another great doco from Howard, thanks.
chills throughout the whole vid
Thanks for the upload. I thought I'd seen every decent music doco from the beeb.
I’ve only seen perfection a few times over the last 65 years. Secretariat’s Triple Crown. David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia, Barack Obama singing Amazing Grace in Charleston Bobby Fischer playing chess - and the Beatles staggering impact on music and popular culture. For me, those four boys are truly the greatest cultural gifts of the 20th century.
Well done. Extraordinary album.
Fascinating, thank you!
Thanks; highly instructive!
Great! Thank you, enjoyed that! 8~)
I can't wait for the 100th anniversary edition.
I'll have to live to 101 to experience that. Cigarettes may have something to say about it though. But then again, who wants to be 101? I was 1 years old when it happened, that's the main thing!
@@marine4lyfe85 "Who wants to be 101"? Probably someone who is 100! Lol
@@marine4lyfe85"1 year old"
When what happened? The nicotine habit?
I can.
Always thought Revolver was the real game changer.
that's correct. i like it well above pepper. i think the songs are far better
I always thought Rubber soul was The Beatles Revolver.. this doesn't include the US versions, the US Rubber Soul sounds like a Best of McCartney album.
Sgt. Peppers was the first time the US had to release the same as the rest of the world ! @@thePOWERofART-11
not even close to Pepper.
Revolver has by far the better songs as such, however the production and sound of pepper is what was revolutionary.
@@hakonberg8003 songs are actually much much weaker and cloying.
Paul McCartney wrote "When I'm 64" at the age of 14. HIs father would have been 54 at the time, though one supposes that the lyrics might have come later.
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite part of Sgt. Pepper's 50th anniversary.
The version of 'Strawberry Fields Forever' on the 'Love' album is really great. Also, take 7 is really good. If the end could have just went on for another 20 seconds or so before breaking down.
I never underestimate Paul as to what he knows about music. Same for John - I had never heard of him being a fan of medieval type music, but half of his stuff, Norwegian Wood, I'll Be Back, sounds medieval folk, and then Because is straight up French Church polyphony.
I know Paul is still kicking himself at letting me slip through his fingers, romantically speaking. He let the simple fact he'd never met me colour his thinking. I forgave him for his folly back in 1966, on my 14th birthday.
I was hoping to fall sleep to this
Very good
I can't wait for a time machine to be invented only to deliver a multi-channel recording equipment (16 ch for a start) and a bunch of sound effects to Abbey Road studios in 1966. and hear these songs again.
The Beatles may have been the songwriters but fair fair. It was also the engineers that were a young son heroes of those sessions.
Where can we see these crafts, which country, city, town? They are absolutely beautiful
The Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane single is pretty much their peak for me.
@PedroHenrique-u8z7e no.
.. their best album
FLYING LIZARDS too.
Great bands on this 20th Century
Howard is The Beatles goat ✌
If this doesn't convince you that John & Paul were the greatest pop composers of all time then I don't know what will
Now that’s a Docco
Howard is right, you have to include Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane on Sgt Peppers making it the greatest R&R/Pop album of all time.
The Beatles tried not to include their hit singles (like Hey Jude or Strawberry Fiekds for ex.) on albums that were huge sellers at 45 rpm…as Paul put it .”we tried not to make our fans pay for the record twice We saw that as a rip off. That’s how good they were !
Great record, amazing shift in pop and recording tech. Still breathtaking.
But how do you get to Pepperland w/o composing “There’s a Place”, “I’m a Loser”, “Drive my Car”, “I’m Only Sleeping” etc..??
REVOLVER was toppermost of the popper most... And White Album...
Yes! As much as I've always loved Sgt. Pepper, Revolver will always be #1 to me. Both are Masterpieces.
And none of these boys went to public school. How extraordinary!
Irrelevant and I’m a state school boy.
@@jonesyjones7626 It may seem so now but the Beatles were a big part of the breaking down of class assumptions. It’s hard now to understand how class conscious Britain was at the time. It was just assumed that the upper and middle classes were superior. Then suddenly four state educated Scousers came along and dazzled the world. You can gauge the impact by the change in the former Queens pronounciation. No one wanted to sound cut glass anymore
My only criticism is that Goodall doesn't seem to understand and therefore underestimates the contribution of the psychedelic experience to much of the atmosphere and content of the music and lyrics of Sgt Peppers and its link to Eastern Spiritual influences - that had started before these recordings with some of the stuff on Revolver. What I find annoying is Goodall's silly stereotyping comments about Pepper having little to do with 'Hippy/Far out ' stuff - who said it was? That's a kind of 2 dimensional view of things. For example, Strawberry Fields isn't just referencing childhood it is also referencing the dissolution of the self, which doesn't just relate to LSD but significantly to notions of spirituality. You can't simply consign this kind of influence to remarks about hippy nonsense. There was a lot of hippy nonsense in the mid and late 60s but it wasn't on Pepper.
It seems you misunderstand the whole thing: the material on the album is not simply the product of individual people and their environment, which can be understood or better understood by knowing them, no: it was designed as a huge-circulation, or big-market commodity for the whole world (of course, mainly, by then, America), as a preliminary survey, - lets say as the lsd sticker was given to the boys around the scholls for free...
She’s leaving home is not in Aeolian mode.It’s a major melody.Mixolydian is the correct mode.I don’t think it as a model song.Sadness comes from the lyrics and the harp.
At last, somebody else who noticed this bizarre goof by Goodall. It’s so strange that somebody who read music at Oxford could make such a glaring error, and moreover that nobody at the BBC fact-checked him.
It’s not just that it very obviously ISN’T in the Aeolian mode, it’s the fact that even supposing it WERE in the Aeolian mode, that still wouldn’t be something even remotely worth mentioning when discussing the distinctive elements of a song. He talks about the Aeolian mode as if it’s exotic and remarkable, rather than the most bog-standard and commonplace way to be in a minor key.
Even Mixolydian (the mode it’s actually in) isn’t particularly unusual in the context of rock. It’s so ubiquitous to the genre, in fact, that it’s been called “rock major”, and I suspect there are more major key Beatles songs that are, at least in part, in Mixolydian than there are Beatles songs that aren’t. It leaves one with the impression that Goodall somehow got through an entire tertiary education in music without grasping what modes actually are.
Completely agree.Had he exampled ‘Within you without you’ as a modal song,it would be appropriate.It’s a good description of Mixolydian mode with a few ornamentations. By the way what do you think of Paul mc Cartney concerts? I mean his dissapearing voice.I feel sad.Time to retire?
Just watched this and had to come check comments to see if I was losing my mind... how could they make that mistake? Aeolian is just the natural minor... that's not really writing "modal music". And it's actually mixolydian, which is just the major scale with a flat 7. Or, am I wrong?
Iron-ikally at 2:35 lyrics reflect hair issue; as Mr McCartney and his foster son sit together with the latter trying to figure out which way to part da mop and perhaps contemplative recently altered eyebrows: ( only my subjective obs.)
Whoever: One of the Greats.
Although George contributed one song to the album he hardly took part in the recordings of the other songs. Pau said, that he was more interested in in renovating his new mansion in London. But it shows on the record. The Beatles were relieved from that typical guitar driven style and were open for keyboards and classical instruments. I guess that´s why George didn´t like the record and John was criticizing it later. I guess it reminded him of Paul taking the lead.
And yet archive evidence proves that George attended every session for Sgt Pepper's - except for the She's Leaving Home one. Your quote from Paul comes from the 1980's when George Ringo and Yoko were suing him. So he was a bit salty. George never bought a mansion in London..
@@scottandrewbrass1931
Paul actually said that George was busy building a swimming pool at that time.
tri bom!!!!!!!!!!
The narrator doesn't understand, of course, what psychedelics are, musically, and artistically.
Psychedelics aren't hallucinations of pure fantasy: ''where is the sofa, and what is that bear doing there?''
It isn't mere fantasy. It is real life turning into fantasy. The sofa became the bear. But you know it is still really just the sofa. And Rita becomes the song..... And Strawberry Feilds become forever.
Without diminishing George Martin's part in the Sgt Pepper sound, it must be said, that the effects and processing were the brainchildren of the then audio engineers. George Martin's strength was his classical music training and jazz experience which helped enrichen many chord structues, and assistance with arrangements in Sgt Pepper. In that, drawing on his experience of contextual textures of particular layering of chord structures and sequences alongside each other, he could assist the Beatles in capturing particular 'feels' needed by the Beatles having been informed by LSD-25.
And this, due to his educatiomn and experience in classical music, composition, and his his conducting orchestras in studiuo recordings. Also, Geporge did much voice-over poroduction with Ivor cutler etc. So had a rich pool of knowledge to add to the whole product.
But the mixing desk? George could do that. yes. But all the bells and whistles? THE ENGINEERS. (Just NEVER let the engineers run the show. They do techniques instead of rock n roll))
And the audio engineers had to cope with making all of the above appear to happen.
One designs the bridge, the other has to build it.
Ringo is such an anomolous silent and understated hero isn't he?
And the enbineer, Townsend, here, desrves a book in his own right. He undersstood much about various effects of various frequencies. And some.
I would not attempt to diminish the contribution made by anybody. But your kind of detailed comment makes me think we really need an in-depth series about the Beatles while there are still people alive who were there at the time