Recorded: 6 December 1966 - 21 April 1967
Producer: George Martin
Engineers: Geoff Emerick, Adrian Ibbetson, Malcolm Addey, Ken Townsend, Peter Vince
Released: 1 June 1967 (UK), 2 June 1967 (US)
"The first thing I remember was flying back from America with our road manager Mal Evans. Over our meal we were talking about salt and pepper which was misheard as Sgt. Pepper. I then had the idea for the song 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band', and thought it would be interesting for us to pretend, during the making of the album, that we were members of this band rather than The Beatles, in order to give us a fresh slant. With this in mind, I suggested to the guys that each create an alter ego for ourselves and have uniforms made by a costumer. To help this process, we would all make a list of the people that our newly created characters might have admired. Everyone seemed to like the idea and with this in mind, we made the album. Our attitude now was that of a completely different set of individuals and not the attitude that we would normally have had as The Beatles. The making of the record became a wild, colorful fairground ride whwere all things were possible. I remeber clearly a music critic surmising that because no one had heard from us for a while, The Beatles had dried up! We worked on happily in the knowledge that this one gentleman was about to be proved well and truly wrong! I could go on and on about that period and the fun we had but I think it0s better for now to say no more and simply let the album speak for itself. Paul McCartney 06.03.08 |
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