Artist: Soundtrack
Title: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Release: 1978
Format: 2 LP
Label: RSO Records
Catalog# RS 2-4100
“Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” was a multi-platinum double album produced by George Martin, featuring covers of songs by The Beatles. It was released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Steve Martin. The project was managed by The Robert Stigwood Organisation.
Like the album itself, the soundtrack to the 1978 film “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” is a legend in its own right. Where the Beatles’ album was a groundbreaking moment in pop music, the Robert Stigwood film was an unmitigated disaster, an embarrassment not only to the Beatles, but to everyone involved in the production. Nevertheless, as the years passed and ’70s nostalgia grew, certain kitsch fanatics revealed an affection for the debacle. A few performers try to give their best, witness Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Got to Get You into My Life,” Aerosmith’s “Come Together,” and Billy Preston’s “Get Back”, but there’s no erasing the fact that this is an absolutely atrocious record, one that was simply beyond saving. There’s really no excuse for such mind-boggling mismatches as George Burns’ “Fixing a Hole,” Alice Cooper’s “Because,” Steve Martin’s “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” or all the endless, awkward numbers from the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, and Frankie Howard. It’s so bad that it’s not even camp, and only those with truly twisted senses of humor, or who need every ’70s artifact, will find it tolerable.
Side one
1. Introducing Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (4:42)
Bee Gees and Paul Nicholas – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1:56)
Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees – With a Little Help from My Friends (2:46)
2. Sandy Farina – Here Comes The Sun (3:45)
3. Peter Frampton, The Bee Gees – Getting Better (2:46)
4. Dianne Steinberg and Stargard – Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (3:41)
5. George Martin, Peter Frampton, Donald Pleasence, Dianne Steinberg, Paul Nicholas, Bee Gees,
Stargard – I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (6:31)
Side two
1. Paul Nicholas, Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees – Good Morning Good Morning (1:58)
2. Steven Tyler, The Bee Gees, Jay MacIntosh and John Wheeler – She’s Leaving Home (2:41)
3. Paul Nicholas and Dianne Steinberg – You Never Give Me Your Money (3:07)
4. Robin Gibb – Oh! Darling (3:21)
5. Steve Martin and The Vocal Chorus – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (4:31)
6. Rise To Stardom Suite (5:11)
(a) Bee Gees – Polythene Pam (0:38)
(b) Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees – She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (1:46)
(c) Bee Gees – Nowhere Man (1:14)
(d) Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (1:33)
Side three
1. Earth, Wind & Fire – Got To Get You Into My Life (3:36)
2. Sandy Farina – Strawberry Fields Forever (3:31)
3. Frankie Howerd and Sandy Farina – When I’m Sixty-Four (2:40)
4. Frankie Howerd, Steven Tyler, Bee Gees – Mean Mr. Mustard (2:46)
5. George Burns – Fixing A Hole (2:25)
6. Alice Cooper and The Bee Gees – Because (2:45)
7. The Death Of Strawberry (3:24)
(a) Peter Frampton – Golden Slumbers (1:39)
(b) Bee Gees – Carry That Weight (1:45)
Side four
1. Aerosmith – Come Together (3:46)
2. Maurice Gibb, Peter Frampton, Bee Gees, George Burns – Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
(3:12)
3. Peter Frampton – The Long and Winding Road (3:40)
4. Barry Gibb and The Bee Gees – A Day in the Life (5:11)
5. Billy Preston – Get Back (2:56)
6. The Cast – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [Finale] (2:13)
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