It’s often said that the most famous concept album of all time is in fact NOT a concept album.
Often by the Beatles themselves.
But what if IT IS – and it’s message was so controversial it had to be hidden?
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Thank you. I have always thought that this was the theme but everyone called me crazy. Great video I feel vindicated.
Good analysis. The subject matter (taking LSD) may seem dreary now but at the time must have felt like discovering another world, and well worth a secret concept album. Definitely more import than a pop LP could have hoped to carry previous to Pepper.
Great analysis, superb job. I don't know if it is true, but it could very well be.
yes .. tune in turn on …very so…
Interesting, as you go through the album pointing out the words used, I see the album as a confirmation that Paul did die, and William Campbell did indeed him. This album, more than ever now, is used to introduce the world to the new Beatles w/William (Billie) Campbell.
I think you are right on the money James, with this unmasking of the secrets of this 'concept album' it all kinda makes sense now. The concept was drugs. Seems obvious yet very esoteric. I tried LSD a year after I first heard SPLHCB. it was quite terrifying as I got lost in the subways of NYC trying to get back to a military base in time. The only thing that could ease my mind was listening to a George Shearing album at a friend's apartment. Needless to say, I was late in getting back to where I had to be. Isn't it rich, losing my timing this late in my career? (Sondheim) I wanted my wife back but it was too late for that too.
It’s a concept album, I don’t care how much Lennon didn’t like it.
As a kid I thought the runout groove sayd ,,Lucy heads the other way,, and not only Dogs were reacting, Cats could,,hear,, it too
Oh, ffs! 😅😅😅😅😅
well done, thought provoking. I love this LP, it was huge in my life and now means even more to me.
Ever since Paul was killed & replaced by a lookalike, ppl have been seeing & hearing plots, secrets, conspiracies, messages & clues everywhere… sigh.😂
Well done! Don’t know how close to reality but nice video!
It is the greatest album of all time…
Dark side of the moon…#2
You missed a big piece in my opinion. They were very into Alistair Crowley, and secret messages were a big part of his deal.
i thought that paul was death
no doubt Paul spent a lot of time thinking about the song order, but nowhere near as much time as you have! very interesting nonetheless.
Billy & Rita seem to be the 'Lonely Hearts' !
Brilliant diagnosis by the way. 😊
I'll never listen to SPLHCB the same way ever again.
great video, too bad Robert Stigwood and the Bee Gees didn't see it like you do. lol
Now I wish they would adapt this into a musical! Let’s petition for this to happen!
I think you make some good points, but I don’t think acid is the overall theme, just part of the tapestry. This is just a snapshot of that time, which covers most of the points you made, acid was just a part of that process.
Bravo! Good work man! Sgt. Peppes ranks among my favourite albums of all time and I''d always adopted the view that of course it was an occulted concept album. This was undoubtedly influenced by my love of the oft reviled Sgt. Peppers movie from the late 70s with Peter Frampton & the Bee-Gees. I must have watched that movie thousands of times as an 8 or 9 year old kid because cable was a new thing around 78-79 and they played it endlessly on HBO. Still to this day I hold the unpopular opinion that they did real justice to the Beatles tunes. I pretty much hate every other attempt to cover the Beatles, btw… Hard to find that movie for a long time because rumor had it Frampton hated it and tried to buy up all copies and destroy them. I'm sure these days you can track it down online. It had Steve Martin as Maxwell (Silver Hammer), Alice Cooper as the Sun King, Aerosmith as the evil corporate band, Billy Preston did Get Back at the end and many other cameos I am not remembering. Also the character Strawberry Fields sings Strawberry Fields to herself about herself. Soooo meta! It's absolute 70's cheese but it was imprinted on me deeply as a kid. I still love it. Highly recommend it. I think a modern audience exposed to the Internets & memes, etc. will appreciate it more than perhaps the preceding generations… You're welcome!
I took the '4000 holes' filling the Albert Hall line to mean they 'turned on' the whole audience and they all had the hole in their heads that was mentioned in 'Fixing a hole' meaning that they were transformed to the new way of thinking, the new perspective, the new ethos enabled by Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
A Day in the Life is a masterpiece. The rest of the album is mostly mediocre.
Wow this was pretty brilliant and entertaining. It's like experiencing the album all over again. There's something about learning the code to something that has been right in front of you forever and now you finally see it .
My father in law gave me his original 1967 print on vinyl for Christmas a few years ago. Best Present ever!
You sure tripped over your feet at the finish line. Sgt. Pepper's inspired the Paul is Dead theme, by design. Paul didn't get the Billy Shears name from the believers.
Sgt. Pepper's isn't just about encouraging drug use. It is a vehicle for self initiation into Crowleyan occultism and satanism. This is and was much more important to Paul than drugs.
Lucy is a nickname for Lucifer. A "lucky man" is a luciferian.
"Made the grade" is wordplay for dying.
Even as a child hearing this, we knew it was about drugs. And relationships. And breaking away from our parents' world. But to be fair, I first heard this in the probably mid-70s in the US, so all of these concepts were relatively out in the open. Mix that in with the movies Yellow Submarine and the ill-thought-out-and-executed Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a lot of this doesn't come as a surprise with the individual songs. As a kid, I thought the first part was some sort of show, then some unrelated stuff, then maybe a piece from the show, and then some other stuff. I absolutely love your putting them together. It's truly brilliant. great video!
I feel like within without you and she's leaving home dont fit on the album at all. Within Without you ruins the whole album for me. Everyone I know skipped that track on vinyl or CD.
This was absolutely brilliant!
Very compelling.
Well done, sir!
When I was a little kid and had no idea who the beatles were my mom took me to see the Sgt Pepper movie with the bee gees and peter frampton. Almost ruined me. Thanks for the great analysis in this video.
If this is about Paul Is Dead being real I'm going to start a revolution
Thank you so much for this. You have conceptualized and put into words what I have been feeling since 1967. Your vision of this is more detailed and complete than mine but everything you said resonates with what I have felt and believed since Pepper came out.
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