Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: Album vs. Movie

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

I'll give the Beatles some credit for at least trying. Both were fair efforts.

I have to give the movie the nod because at least it had Elton John in those giant boots and big glasses. I don't think Elton was in the album, though.

[HughBeaumont]

1. Er, Sir Reg no be in dat movie.

That would be the Bee Gees. And Peter Frampton. I should know because I was one of 250 people still alive that actually saw this piece of dinosaur shit in the theater.

[trogdor]

3. Sir Reg did Lucy In The Sky (With Diamonds)

[HughBeaumont]

6. And his version wasn't that bad.

This MOVIE, however . . . yeeeeesh.

DOCTOR John was in the movie, at the end.

[NightTrain]

2. For the record, the ex-Beatles had nothing to do with that horrid film.

Thank Christ!!!

[ET Awful]

4. The movie with Elton in big boots and glasses wasn't

Sgt. Pepper's, but the Who's "Tommy." He was in the "Pinball Wizard" segment.

[Magrittes Pipe]

5. Hm. The worst Beatles album vs. the best Bee Gees movie....

I have to go with the Brothers Gibb on this one and only occasion.

[Zuni]

11. sir, I challenge you to a duel

only one of us will return to DU alive

[Magrittes Pipe]

14. At least the movie was funny.

The record is just sad.

The same band that waxed "Ticket to Ride" and "I'm Down," and would later go on to record "Everybody's Got Something to Hide (Except Me and My Monkey)" ALSO made "When I'm 64?" And "Lovely Rita?"

That's just fuckin' wrong.

[JohnKleeb]

25. The album also has she's leaving home and within without you

:)

[Atlas Mugged]

28. 'Lovely Rita' is a work of genius...

...compared to 'Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite'. They both suck - but with vastly different degrees of suckatude.

[Zuni]

7. Anyone who picks the movie is EVIL

Seriously. You should be banned from DU for picking the movie

[Orsino]

32. Don't worry. There was no movie.

Didn't happen. Never made.

[Zuni]

35. must have all been a bad dream

[trogdor]

8. I mean, what were they thinking in the late '70's?

Trying to bring back the musical, except with rock music, or even worse, DISCO!

[HughBeaumont]

9. SPLHCB may as well have been called "Blasphemy".

Even if you aren't a fan of the album, the movie of it should have gotten better treatment than THIS product of a bad acid flashback.

[AllegroRondo]

10. But the movie had George Burns

singing "fixing a hole in the roof"

what could beat that?

[HughBeaumont]

12. Not even Nate the Great Birnbaum could have save that pile.

[HalfManHalfBiscuit]

18. Forgot about that

He was even better than Elton John. Although I would grant that the Beatles had more musical talent than George Burns. But far short of Elton John.

[4_Legs_Good]

13. YELLOW SUBMARINE was the Sgt. Pepper's movie

don't let anyone else tell you different.

Best music movie EVER.



david

[ProfessorGAC]

15. Elton Was In Neither

I know he did Lucy In The Sky. . ., but he wasn't in the movie was he?
The Professor

[derby378]

16. SGT. PEPPER movie? Think PLAN 9 with disco overtones

That movie sucked big ones. At least the villains (including Alice Cooper and Aerosmith) were entertaining.

[HughBeaumont]

17. Barry Gibb kicking Steven Tyler's ass . . . only in the movies.

[elperromagico]

19. Elton in boots and giant glasses? You're thinking of "Tommy,"

where he played the Pinball Wizard and sang the song of the same title.

[Bertha Venation]

20. I liked the movie.

But I was 15 years old.

[terrya]

21. The movie...starred Peter Frampton, right?

UGH. :shudder:

[maveric]

22. Wasn't a young Aerosmith in that one? And Peter Frampton too?

That was one bad film.

[LynneSin]

23. I LOVE the movie - it's so fricking cheesy it's amazing!!

Especially when you see the likes of George Burns & Donald Pleasance trying to "sing" if that's what you call it.

But the best of it is the end when they do their own version of the Sgt. Pepper Album Cover - Check this list of who they had singing the finale. Kudos to having Carol Channing and Tina Turner singing side by side.

Peter Allen .... Our Guests at Heartland
Keith Allison .... Our Guests at Heartland
George Benson .... Our Guests at Heartland
Keith Carradine .... Our Guests at Heartland
Carol Channing .... Our Guests at Heartland
Charlotte .... Our Guests at Heartland
Sharon .... Our Guests at Heartland
Ula .... Our Guests at Heartland
Jim Dandy .... Our Guests at Heartland
Sarah Dash .... Our Guests at Heartland
Rick Derringer .... Our Guests at Heartland
Barbara Dickson .... Our Guests at Heartland
Donovan .... Our Guests at Heartland
Randy Edelman .... Our Guests at Heartland
Yvonne Elliman .... Our Guests at Heartland
José Feliciano .... Our Guests at Heartland
Leif Garrett .... Our Guests at Heartland
Geraldine Granger .... Our Guests at Heartland
Adrian Gurvitz .... Our Guests at Heartland
Billy Harper .... Our Guests at Heartland
Eddie Harris .... Our Guests at Heartland
Heart .... Our Guests at Heartland
Nona Hendryx .... Our Guests at Heartland
Barry Humphries .... Our Guests at Heartland - Dame Edna Everage
Etta James .... Our Guests at Heartland
Dr. John .... Our Guests at Heartland
Bruce Johnston .... Our Guests at Heartland
Joe Lala .... Our Guests at Heartland
D.C. LaRue .... Our Guests at Heartland
Jo Leb .... Our Guests at Heartland
Marcella Detroit .... Our Guests at Heartland (as Marcy Levy)
Mark Lindsay .... Our Guests at Heartland
Nils Lofgren .... Our Guests at Heartland
Jackie Lomax .... Our Guests at Heartland
John Mayall .... Our Guests at Heartland
Curtis Mayfield .... Our Guests at Heartland
'Cousin Brucie' Morrow .... Our Guests at Heartland (as Cousin Bruce Morrow)
Peter Noone .... Our Guests at Heartland
Alan O'Day .... Our Guest at Heartland
Lee Oskar .... Our Guests at Heartland
The Paley Brothers .... Our Guests at Heartland (as The Paley Brothers)
Robert Palmer .... Our Guests at Heartland
Wilson Pickett .... Our Guests at Heartland
Anita Pointer .... Our Guests at Heartland
Bonnie Raitt .... Our Guests at Heartland
Helen Reddy .... Our Guests at Heartland
Minnie Riperton .... Our Guests at Heartland
Chita Rivera .... Our Guests at Heartland
Johnny Rivers .... Our Guests at Heartland
Monti Rock III .... Our Guests at Heartland (as Monte Rock III)
Danielle Rowe .... Our Guests at Heartland
Sha-Na-Na .... Our Guests at Heartland
Del Shannon .... Our Guests at Heartland
Joe Simon .... Our Guests at Heartland
Jim Seals .... Our Guests at Heartland (as Seals)
Dash Crofts .... Our Guests at Heartland (as Crofts)
Connie Stevens .... Our Guests at Heartland
John Stewart .... Our Guests at Heartland
Tina Turner .... Our Guests at Heartland
Frankie Valli .... Our Guests at Heartland
Gwen Verdon .... Our Guests at Heartland
Diane Vincent .... Our Guests at Heartland
Grover Washington Jr. .... Our Guests at Heartland
Hank Williams Jr. .... Our Guests at Heartland
Johnny Winter .... Our Guests at Heartland
Wolfman Jack .... Our Guests at Heartland
Bobby Womack .... Our Guests at Heartland
Alan White .... Our Guests at Heartland
Lenny White .... Our Guests at Heartland
Gary Wright .... Our Guests at Heartland

[On the Road]

24. Locking -- Flamebait

:smoke:

[LynneSin]

26. Elton John was in the movie?

I just watched it last night- if he was in it I didn't see him or I was in the bathroom. He's not on the cast list

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078239/combined

[WoodrowFan]

27. the only thing good in the movie

was Aerosmith singing "Come Together"

And I saw it in the theater. UGH.

[LynneSin]

31. Aerosmith was the Future Villian Band...

....that killed Strawberry fields. Strawberry was later revived by Billy Preston who was the Happiness Sgt Pepper Weather Vane that came back to life and undid all the bad that happened to Heartland

Edit note: It was Alice Cooper who was Father Sun that almost killed Billy Shears.

[WoodrowFan]

33. argh

thanks for that memory!!. another year of therapy shot to hell!

[sportndandy]

29. Sandy Farina sings Here Comes the Sun

Who is Sandy Farina?

[LynneSin]

30. She also sang "Strawberry Fields" and I believe one other song

((which I can't remember even though I watched the movie again last night)

http://www.fretlesspm.com/females/sandy.html

I think she's more of a songwriter than a singer

[LynneSin]

36. Half of those people weren't actors to begin with

In fact one of the reasons that George Burns narated the entire movie with the rest of the cast just singing was because there were so many non-actors who couldn't act in the movie.

Best to just let Peter Frampton & the BeeGees sing

[HughBeaumont]

34. That movie was the ONLY thing she was ever in.

See? TOTAL career killer.

[Debi]

37. Wasn't Steve Martin

Dr. Maxwell?

[LynneSin]

38. Yep, his hammer turned creepy old farts into the Hitler Youth

Seriously they all wore brownshirts, brown shorts with yellow hankies arond their neck