Sgt. Pepper Movie
Phil Miller
(with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees) feel that the version
of "Strawberry Fields" sung by the female love interest
(I forget the singer's name) is in some ways better than
the Beatle's version?
I mean the Beatles "Strawberry Fields" is so gloomy and melancholy
in mood, but the version in the movie transforms it into something
beautiful and sunny.
Anyways, not to say it is better, but it was a nice musical idea
to rearrange the song that way. It made me wonder if George
Martin had tried to get John to do it that way back in '66/'67.
Anybody else have any nominations for favorite cover song
from that movie? (Worst cover song?)
philll
Fred Meade
>Does anybody else that has seen the 1978 movie "Sgt. Pepper"
>Anybody else have any nominations for favorite cover song
>from that movie? (Worst cover song?)
>philll
Hand's down, the only redeeming part of the movie was Steve Martin's
cover.
Phred
Chris Walker
> Does anybody else that has seen the 1978 movie "Sgt. Pepper"
> (with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees) feel that the version
> of "Strawberry Fields" sung by the female love interest
> (I forget the singer's name) is in some ways better than
> the Beatle's version?
>
> I mean the Beatles "Strawberry Fields" is so gloomy and melancholy
> in mood, but the version in the movie transforms it into something
> beautiful and sunny.
>
> Anyways, not to say it is better, but it was a nice musical idea
> to rearrange the song that way. It made me wonder if George
> Martin had tried to get John to do it that way back in '66/'67.
>
"Unsurpassed masters" volumne 3 has 10 different takes of Strawberry
Fields, and the all sound a bid gloomy, exept for remixes 25 & 26, witch are
both very upbeat. They remind me a lot of "Penney Lane"
> Anybody else have any nominations for favorite cover song
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Aerosmith did an ok job with "COme Together"
> from that movie? (Worst cover song?)
>
Everythingthe BeeGees did was horrid. Was this moovie made after Michale
Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles catalogue?
>
> philll
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> Everythingthe BeeGees did was horrid. Was this moovie made after Michale
> Jackson bought the rights to the Beatles catalogue?
>
>
No. The _Sgt. Pepper_ movie came out in 1978. Jackson bought
the Lennon-McCartney catalog in the mid-to-late '80s (1986, maybe).
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> > philll
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Jay Smith
writes:
>Hand's down, the only redeeming part of the movie was Steve Martin's
>cover.
Absolutely!
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Phil Miller
: Worst cover song: the awful reoccurences of I Want You
: (take your pick, the movie's full of them)
The facial expressions of the singers who swap the lead chores in
"I Want You" had me squirming in my seat.
That's bad, bad stufff.
philll
Amanda Baggs
to turn it off in the middle of the Steve Martin thing because none of us
could stand to watch it any longer. The worst song, to the part where I
got, had to be that horrible mutilated version of "Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds". It was reduced to the most awful meaningless thing used more
as a seduction tool than a song, while the original version was so full
of meanings...
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Joseph Brennan
>I agree. The entire movie, as a whole, was most ackful. I in fact had
>to turn it off in the middle of the Steve Martin thing because none of us
>could stand to watch it any longer.
If you mean ackful, full of reasons to scream "Ack!!", I agree. "Sgt
Pepper" is exquisitely bad. It deserves more showings at bad film
festivals. Most of the key people didn't know what they were doing,
from the director who had never done a musical to singers who couldn't
act to save their lives. The special effects are terrible-- did you
catch the balloon ride where you can see paintbrush marks on the blue
background (maybe you need film to see the detail)? The whole concept
is insane. But who could turn off Steve Martin performing "Maxwell's
Silver Hammer" in a Richard Nixon voice? It works for me.
Joe Brennan Columbia University in the City of New York
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Phil Miller
: I haven't actually seen the end bit yet...my nextdoor neighbour taped it
: for me when it was on tv, and right when Frampton is singing "Golden Slumbers"
: over Strawberry's casket, the timer ran out..
Ah, you missed the best part, then. Remember that golden figure of the
horn player that sits atop Mr. Kite's house? Well at the end of the
movie that figure starts spinning real fast until it turns into Billy
Preston. BP then launches into "Get Back" as he zaps with his magical
powers a suicidal Peter Frampton back to reality.
Oh, and Strawberry Fields is brought back to life, too.
The "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" medley at the funeral
was in such bad taste. Though only to be outdone a moment later
when Gibb Brother #3 smirks while Gibb Brother #1 croons "A Day
In The Life" by a waterfall.
But the incessant mugging to the camera of Gibb Brother #2
(the one without a beard) is the thing that causes the most
long term psychcological damage from viewing this movie.
Or should I say the those two robots that had flower pots
on their head were worse? Or the opening "War" scenes,
or Peter Frampton's first entery, or, or, or, or !!##@*&%$^& ......
damn, I'm going to have to rent this sucker again!
philll
Gwyneth Kozbial
>
>Ah, you missed the best part, then. Remember that golden figure of the
>horn player that sits atop Mr. Kite's house? Well at the end of the
>movie that figure starts spinning real fast until it turns into Billy
>Preston. BP then launches into "Get Back" as he zaps with his magical
>powers a suicidal Peter Frampton back to reality.
OUCH...(I'm falling apart..you're breaking my heart)
>
>Oh, and Strawberry Fields is brought back to life, too.
Yeah...I know how it ended b/c I read the book...(my friend hates the song
SFF because at the end Strawberry is brought back to life, and not Aerosmith..)
At the end of the book, it mentions the name of just about every r-n-r band
/artist since the beginning of time who is at the celibration for Strawberry's
return, and it's REELY redundant...it couldn't be as cheesy as the movie, tho...
>
>The "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight" medley at the funeral
>was in such bad taste. Though only to be outdone a moment later
>when Gibb Brother #3 smirks while Gibb Brother #1 croons "A Day
>In The Life" by a waterfall.
>
>But the incessant mugging to the camera of Gibb Brother #2
>(the one without a beard) is the thing that causes the most
>long term psychcological damage from viewing this movie.
>Or should I say the those two robots that had flower pots
>on their head were worse? Or the opening "War" scenes,
>or Peter Frampton's first entery, or, or, or, or !!##@*&%$^& ......
>damn, I'm going to have to rent this sucker again!
>
I'll take Gibb brother #3 for four hundred, Alex...
no...really...I _will_ have to search out this film eventually...just
for the cheese factor...
From me to yul,
Gwyneth Kozbeatle
AHens 13
<FR...@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
no. But I have the Soundtrack