Forty years ago today (or yesterday, in Britain), The Beatles released Sergeant Pepper.
"With Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band finished, the group left Abbey Road at dawn bearing an acetate and drove to Mama Cass Elliott's flat off the King's Road where, at six in the morning, they threw open the windows, put speakers on the ledge, and played the album full blast over the rooftops of Chelsea. According to Derek Taylor (The Beatle's publicity man) 'all the windows around us opened and people leaned out, wondering. It was obvious who it was on the record. Nobody complained. A lovely spring morning. People were smiling and giving the thumbs up.'"
Ian MacDonald, Revolution in the Head.
Saturday, June 02, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Lame.
"There was a brief moment when it looked like Brock might smash his guitar on the stage (but instead, he put it on the ground after tossing it around from its strap)."
Either smash the thing or don't take it off at all. You can't go halfway with these things. Can you imagine Townshend in 1966 making ready to smash the guitar, then carefully putting it on the floor? Or how about the front cover of 'London Calling,' Paul Simonon placing his guitar 'on the ground.' What an iconic image that would've been.
"There was a brief moment when it looked like Brock might smash his guitar on the stage (but instead, he put it on the ground after tossing it around from its strap)."
Either smash the thing or don't take it off at all. You can't go halfway with these things. Can you imagine Townshend in 1966 making ready to smash the guitar, then carefully putting it on the floor? Or how about the front cover of 'London Calling,' Paul Simonon placing his guitar 'on the ground.' What an iconic image that would've been.
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