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SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

The Beatles

 

Proto-Prog

4.35 | 1243 ratings

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MANTICORE
5 stars Marked by its ambitious and complex experimentation that combined typical elements of pop with submerged classic and vodevilescas characteristics in mesmerizantes psicodélicas essences, this disc went deep in that experimental facet of a way never Vista (only Brian Wilson and his "Pet Sounds" had taken care of so much a musical product) and opened to the sonic footpath to all the other groups for the expansion and audacious renovation of the basic constants of music poprock. With a pride and vivaz descriptive introduction on the band of the solitary hearts, the melomane delight overflows with glad pieces of exemplary melódica construction like "With to little help of my friends", oda to the friendship sung by Ringo and later versionada successfully by Joe Cocker, "Fixing to hole", "Getting Better" or "Shés leaving home" (a prodigy of sensitivity and beauty introduced by the ARPA of Sheila Bromberg) and kaleidoscopic natures like "Lucy in the sky with diamonds", song that although said that it was dedicated to the LSD, the own Lennon affirmed that it was the description of a made drawing by its son Julian; visions and circus aromas in "for Being the benefit of Mr. Kite", dawns farmers in "Good Morning Good Morning", ironic reflections on the eternal love adorned by elegant clarinetes in the cabaret entertainer "When Ím sixty-four", or imaginería that diatriba on the human condition, the vital fugacidad, the success and the power of "A day in the life", a masterful cut of extreme complication that exemplifies the elaboration power well and execution of an essential disc in which they participated more than seventy musicians, among them, great George Martin, who contributed in addition to his wisdom in the producing task (using only 4 tracks) some passages of keyboards. Like last data, to contribute that this it is the first disc in the history of music in publishing all the printed letters and that the extraordinary cover (with people like Karl Marx, Fred Astaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde Marlene Dietrich or Bob Dylan) was made by Peter Blake.
MANTICORE | 5/5 |

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