In class, we listened to Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band all the way through. Fantastic album in my opinion, but also saddening. You can hear how Paul is starting to take over the group, because he has many songs on the album. Ringo has one song that he didn't even fully write, and George has one that is pushed aside because it's different. Personally, I love that song, because the lyrics are so deep, something I'll write about in the next post. "We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion." Probably one of the best lyrics I've ever heard.
Also, you can hear John's decline slowly happening through the album. He has four songs on the entire thing, while two of them are absolutely GENIUS (Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life), it seems like he just didn't really have time for the album, like other things were more important, and they were. Heroin was more important to him, other drugs too, at this point.
But, Sgt Pepper's is a great album, and I applaud the Beatles on that for making yet another album that will go down in history.
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