BBC Sgt Peppers Musical Revolution with Howard Goodall 720p HDTV x264 AAC MVGroup org

[@davidclaycomb5496]

Ringo’s drumming in Day is nothing short of brilliant.

[@soundshaper]

Agreed, and his drumming in Good Morning, Good Morning is also worthy of praise.

[@hammurhead1]

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.

[@FinnBjerke]

@@hammurhead1 Im glad u like it mate... A lot of fab four vids Are censorer by the algorithm..

[@sgtpepper1138]

Same, not sure how I missed it for all these years. Very well done. It must be going around the YT algorithm.

[@davidclaycomb5496]

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.

[@liamoconlocha3264]

And Penny Lane and Strawberry fields was rushed out before it was released, imagine how good it could have been

[@thomassouliere7613]

Mine too.

[@anthonywhite2960]

​@@liamoconlocha3264what?

[@rovcanada1]

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

[@robertfontaine356]

Your documentary is a real Christmas gift Mr. Goodall ! It is the definitive exploration of this watershed moment in musical history. Merci !

[@gumbycat5226]

Howard is such a brilliant musical analyst. Thanks for putting this on!

[@thomassouliere7613]

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.

[@stuartwray6175]

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.

[@Michael-hv2cj]

Wonderful - really enjoyed this.

[@anaceliaellero5513]

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

[@lexdunn4160]

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,

[@MatthewJohnCrittenden]

Thanks for the upload. I thought I'd seen every decent music doco from the beeb.

[@peterthomas22]

Another great doco from Howard, thanks.

[@gregorypalmer6979]

absolutely brilliant! I have been searching for this well presented documentary for years!

[@chrisgreene2623]

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 ?

[@PaisleyPatchouli]

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!

[@timwestcott361]

Ground Zero for Prog Rock. And Hendrix arrives. What a time. Absorbing and energising.

[@michaelgriffin1458]

Fascinating, thank you!

[@fredbarnes196]

I was hoping to fall sleep to this

[@paulmonkcom]

Great! Thank you, enjoyed that! 8~)

[@MrTimdriver]

Fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

[@MrKaywyn]

My favourite part of Sgt. Pepper's 50th anniversary.

[@ngpappas]

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!

[@chrisr1733]

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...

[@Steven66b]

Well done. Extraordinary album.

[@kabiam]

I can't wait for the 100th anniversary edition.

[@marine4lyfe85]

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!

[@michaelharrington75]

​@@marine4lyfe85 "Who wants to be 101"? Probably someone who is 100! Lol

[@stuartwray6175]

​​@@marine4lyfe85"1 year old" When what happened? The nicotine habit?

[@pauloindaeosrickenbackers]

tri bom!!!!!!!!!!

[@RATTLEY67]

Always thought Revolver was the real game changer.

[@theGENIUSofART-understood]

that's correct. i like it well above pepper. i think the songs are far better

[@jamieforrest6575]

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 ! ​@@theGENIUSofART-understood

[@dustbinfilms]

not even close to Pepper.

[@hakonberg8003]

Revolver has by far the better songs as such, however the production and sound of pepper is what was revolutionary.

[@dustbinfilms]

@@hakonberg8003 songs are actually much much weaker and cloying.

[@michaelharrington75]

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.

[@nicholasrosebush6182]

The Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane single is pretty much their peak for me.

[@PedroHenrique-u8z7e]

Abbey Road medley my friend

[@stuartwray6175]

​@PedroHenrique-u8z7e no.

[@areareare9953]

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.

[@TheLolapuff]

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 !

[@aligemicigil8960]

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.

[@KeithLuttrell-fj7tu]

You don't get it from revolver to Abbey Road was a game changer.

[@ivannio8519]

Thumbnail shows replacement Paul ;)

[@PedroHenrique-u8z7e]

Yes you're correct, it doesn't show Paul Mccartney it shows John Halliday!

[@dikbozo]

For those interested i the 1966 BBC version of Alice in Wonderland, it is available here on YT. enjoy. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aHK2c5-Pg7h8oNE

[@marine4lyfe85]

Who but John Lennon could take a 120 year old poster and craft "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite"?

[@FinnBjerke]

Its bloody brilliant also have some very spicy chords. Its one ot those songs I never forget its in my brain for ever why? GREAT SONGWRITING.

[@tt-du6vc]

Agree, the chords are amazing.

[@Timthi-b4m]

Very interesting but ever since my secondary school days in the 1960s I've heard people saying Lucky in the sky with diamonds wasn't about LSD. So much of 60s culture was about halucinatory drugs it's impossible to truly believe the song is just about a child's drawing. Similarly phrases like 'I'd love to turn you on' in A day in the life cannot be ignored. I really don't have any problem with the Beatles, but sweeping the Zeitgeist of the 60s under the carpet is ridiculous.

[@greenlightwilly]

..what do you mean when you say 'much of the 60's culture was ABOUT hallucinatory drugs'? How does 'about' explain what was going on during that time? You might say 'was influenced by' or something like that. But 'about' doesn't really say much. Yes, there was a strain of artists who were taking drugs - as so many have throughout history. And there was a subculture that reflected that. And of course there was a media machine that liked to exaggerate their reporting of them. It's no secret the Beatles have said SPLHB was 'about' drugs - as they were using hallucinogens during then. I lived through that time and I wouldn't try to characterize it so simply. There were a lot of issues banging around during that period - but aside from longer hair, some catchy new slang and crazy fashion the 'hippie paradise' of the '60's was mostly something that relatively few people were actually doing. I guess if you lived in a place like a commune, or SF or the village - maybe that's what it seemed like to you but most people were only reading about it, not actually living it. ...oh, and btw, 'turn you on' or 'turn me on' was not totally owned by the drug culture as it actually started as sexual phrase that got co-opted by them,

[@Timthi-b4m]

@greenlightwilly I was 16 when I left school in 1967. By using 'about' I was meaning all the things you mention, fashion, art, music, writing. You're right not everyone was using drugs but it was very fashionable to go around acting and looking like you did. I do know the broad use of the phrase 'turn you on' and such terms were used widely in a somewhat idiomatic and esoteric way within certain groups. At school in the 60s I remember our English teacher being very anti Itchycoo park ( don't know how if that's spelt right) and the small faces because he said it was obviously about taking drugs, yet he defended the Beatles LITSWD telling us with pleasure the kids drawing story. I was simply expressing my impression and reading your reply is very interesting, maybe we have similar perspectives on the era.

[@normanby100]

@@Timthi-b4m The truth was, all these musical movements have some drug of choice to sell. Dark forces behind the scene see to it. Hence, Ebeneezer goode by the Shamen. Intelligence handlers wished to encourage rampant drug use as a means of social control. If there is a new leisure drug discovered, you can guarantee there will be a new musical movement in tandem with it.

[@chrisrees7054]

57 years ago. I think it's time to move on

[@pobinr]

Hendrix recorded equally revolutionary albums Are you experienced and again with axis bold as love around the same time. What an era

[@madarab37]

He also played parts of Sgt. Pepper's to the Beatles just days after he got the album and learned it. Paul tells the story about this somewhere.

[@macroman52]

I don't believe the story of Lucy in the Sky being inspired by an existing drawing. That sounds like a cover story to me, to deny the OBVIOUS LSD origin of the name and the song. I DO believe Julian made such a drawing, but after he had heard John singing "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" during the composition of the song.

[@ChristopherSingh-i8o]

It's Sgt Pepper, NOT Peppers. You wouldn't say I've got Revolvers, Rubbers Souls and Pleases Pleases Mes on vinyls would you.

[@stuartwray6175]

Sgt Pepper's ...

[@kevindean1327]

Faul’s first album.

[@chrisrees7054]

Kids don't know who the Beatles were.

[@RonTindle]

Paul is dead... or replaced 1966

[@mikeevans4585]

Paul replaced 1966? He's a Time lord?!

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Your brain has been replaced ya maniac..

[@PedroHenrique-u8z7e]

Imagine being so famous that people think you're dead only because you took of your shoes -A wise man on the internet

[@PedroHenrique-u8z7e]

How can people still believe this PID conspiracy 😮

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

Don't be soft Ron...

[@jeremywanner4526]

Penny lane isn’t nearly as good as Strawberry Fields but that’s my opinion. I always felt John compositions were far more moving.

[@jamescurran9002]

Allow me to break it to you. Holidays are not preordained. They are ALL based on Market considerations. From Christmas to Ramadan to Sweetest Day to Qwansa.. Somebody decided ( on their own) to hold an event in order to capitalize on a season, or need. Sweetest Day was created by Russel Stover to clebrate his wifes birthday. Easter, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Hannukah, etc. Were all arbibitrary . So, every day has at keast one hokiday, some are celebrated more than others. Theyre not Holy..

[@avalanche9026]

Give us a break Sargent peppers ?? I’m sick of it over decades now a piece of music. That’s all. Re envention of the will ? Or something. Move on. There tons of super music. Come on now

[@anthonywhite2960]

No one is forcing you to watch this video. Grow up.

[@indigohammer5732]

Miss a lot of school did you?

[@greenlightwilly]

Revealing my age, I bought this when it was first released in the US. I was too young to understand what all the fuss was about but nevertheless I enjoyed it as best a 15 year old American could. I liked the references to English life and how oddly familiar they seemed, although I was not English and would not travel to England until much later on. And of course the music itself was just very very appealing. ...But like most of the Beatles 'late period' work the record would continue to intrigue and entertain me throughout my life. I now understand why it was so pivotal to popular music in its time but oddly I still listen to it like I was 15 - mesmerized by the sounds and the feelings it produces. Goodall, the Analogues and Mark Lewisohn all have helped me understand how this important record was produced, but none of them can explain why this music continues to gain admirers 60 years after it was first released. Many will reference the non-replicatable circumstances of the times. Not even the Beatles themselves can really explain its deeply resonant appeal long after those times had passed. ...Like so many other human efforts that have endured over the years, maybe it's just simply a great work of ART? Inexplicable by even the artists themselves - but they knew it when they saw it.

[@cmonman3639]

One of the worst Bearles albums. Way too much Paul.

[@scottandrewbrass1931]

😂😂

[@67psych]

Always someone being controversial 😂

[@JimDeferio]

Paul conceded in his book, "Many Years From Now", that John helped Paul with Paul's songs. THEY WROTE THOSE SONGS TOGETHER! Also, the Beatles roadie, Mel Evans, helped Paul with the lyrics to the title song and to "Fixing A Hole". These four guys along with George Martin had influence in ALL of the songs by the Beatles in one way or another and that is why their solo work is so different without this group influence (even Ringo would either give his thumbs up or thumbs down on songs or on various lyrics within songs).

[@RunOfTheHind]

That's John's fault for going off and eating acid 24/7.

[@aisle_of_view]

Agreed, It's corny.