who had the best sgt. peppers outfit: john, paul, george, or ringo? discuss!!

The most striking thing about Pepper to me is how visual it is. Every song has strong mind's eye imagery for me, moreso than any other album I know. Billy Shears strutting out to take the microphone (and of course looking exactly like Ringo Starr), cellophane flowers, a girl leaving home, Mother weeping in her dressing gown, chickens, horses, and dogs, watching the skirts, a car crash, the English Army, four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. Yes, I can SEE Henry the Horse dancing the waltz to this day. Not just one picture for a song, but dozens, maybe hundreds. No wet streets and trains and streetlamps either, but all very unique and original visions. The Beatles created the greatest music video ever in 1967, and it's playing in your head.

Lovely Rita is underrated. I'll go one step further, Lovely Rita is one of the most underrated Beatles tracks.

Me as an 8 year old in the early 70s -- listening to Day in the Life over and over, obsessively picking up the needle and putting it back to the start and listening again, stunned.

Abigail, you ought to be teaching a college class on Rock ‘n Roll history, especially if your expertise and passion match what you do here with Pepper. Sure, there’s a lot of ground to cover, but you’re a natural!

This is a top tier channel for classic rock

22:53 funny story, this happened to me back when I didn’t have a car and I road the bus everywhere. I woke up one morning and when drinking my cup of coffee I looked up and I noticed that I was late. I quickly dressed, hopped on my bike and rode it 3 miles to my nearest bus stop 20 seconds before the bus arrived. It was on the ride to work that I realized how perfectly Lennon captured the Human experience including the struggle of running late and still managing to catch the bus. A Day in the Life was already my favorite Beatles song and that experience made me love it even more.

Great shows you do, me re-living what you are discovering (I’m an old fart OK Boomer who was in high school when Pepper came out). But, regarding concept albums, no, Zappa wasn’t the first (I’m assuming you are referring to Freak Out). The very first one was more than ten years earlier in 1955, Frank Sinatra's In the Wee Small Hours. A total somber gloomy melancholy trip, and in my opinion, one of the great albums of all time.

The Beatles kicked off when I was 11 , took my hand and led me through the musical journey to this album. It was an all-consuming moment. Lyrics on the sleeve ! Then they let us go - encourage us to pursue all those influences that thay had been informed by. Like big brothers who take you to an amazing party where you meet kindred spirits. Like Hendrix. Like Ravi Shankar. And your journey begins.

I wish it WAS an hour long. The close up insertion about Rita, I got scared, no I loved it, I jumped, no I laughed❤. An ode to music itself, that's memorable.

Blew my mind when it was released. It was such a dangerous experiment.

An album that lends itself perfectly to mono Especially masterpieces like Getting Better. There's just a brittleness to mono that gets lost in stereo.😊

I loved Lovely Rita, when I first heard it, at 11 years old. I got my mother to buy me the Sgt. Pepper album, from a flea market, that we used to go to.

The reason Sgt Pepper's had the same track listing in the US as the UK was the Beatles new EMI contract in 1967, where they stipulated that their choice of tracklisting and covers could not be changed in the US.

"It was fifty years ago today,Where a band began to play" Pepper is probably the Beatles best work for this psychedelic period even tho there a mix of baroque pop and psych which just blends nicely 🌈☮🌹📯 Pepper is a lose concept album at first look but it still has a theme running through it like the applaud after Within you Without you but still its a strong album and probably my favorite by them 🌈✨🌷☮

Mae West was requested for her image. She responded with " Why would I be a part of a lonely hearts club?" Class Act!

Fixing a hole and A Day in the Life are standouts

"It's time for tea and Meet The Wife" is a line that probably only makes sense to Brits of a certain age. Meet The Wife was a popular mid sixties BBC sitcom staring Freddie Frinton and Thora Hird. I remember watching it when I was a kid. Probably early in the evening over tea.

One of the orchestral musicians on "Day in the Life" was violinist David McCallum Sr. , who's son was actor David McCallum, who starred in TV's Man From Uncle, and later NCIS. He was the person who suggested to Jimmy Page on an early recording session that he try playing his guitar with a bow.

When I was in 8th grade, my homeroom teacher lent me each Beatles record in order of their American release. Like one every week. I would record each on a side of a cassette tape. When I got Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, the music blew my mind. It was one of those records that made life technicolor (the other was Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited but that came a year later in my life and The Doors - American Prayer). I couldn't believe it!! My favorites are: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, With a Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky with Diamonds, Getting Better, Fixing a Hole, She's Leaving Home, Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Within Without You, When I'm Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Good Morning Good Morning, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise), and A Day In The Life. I remember how I first listened to it. I had a portable square blue Panasonic tape recorder (permanently borrowed from my sister) that I propped on my bedroom windowsill. I would listen to it with my window open so I'd get the spring breeze and outside night sounds from the woods mixed in with the music as I went to sleep. Good times. Thank you Abbie spending a beautifully wigged out psychedelic 26:15 taking us on your trip with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Have you ever seen Sgt. Pepper's Musical Revolution? It was a special on PBS a few number of years ago, hosted by Howard Goodall. I have it saved on the DVR thingy from 11/20/17. I highly recommend it if it ever comes around again. I don't think it's available on a hard copy. I know you recorded this a nearly year ago (okay 6 months ago) but in the event that the next several months get winterly and sullen and dark from the recording date - Stay well!!!

Digging the outfit!! At the tender age of 9 I can remember the impact that this album had on my older brother at the time, he was 16. It was a case of before…and after, Rock Music was never going to be quite the same again, in a strange way it lost its innocence. As always Abigail, an excellent synopsis.

Yes you do have an original Capitol early pressin'! The Fool inner sleeve was early press only in the U.S. But it doesn't include the "never can be any other way" fade out. Capitol decided not to include that on either the mono or stereo releases. Imagine my surprise when years later I listened to a U.K. vinyl release for the first time 'n side 2 ended with that crazy run out message. Thanks for yet another outstandin' video!

This is an iconic 1960s piece of memorabilia. So are all their other albums. However, this is one of my favorites, along with *The Beatles* (White Album) and *Pet Sounds* by Beach Boys (for an entirely different reasons, both related to production complexity). The Abbey Road team were at their finest creative moments here. Various KZfaq interviews with George Martin and several other EMI employees tell the stories of those sessions. They are well worth watching if you're into music production and/or its history. This was the point where they realized that they had been doing so much, for so long, with so little, that they could now do anything with something. Much of what they did is now standard practice, albeit with digital tools making it all easier.

my favorite beatles albums are "rubber soul" and "abbey road" 😉😊😄

Dr. Robert is also missing in the US version. The three Revolver songs were included in the Yesterday and today album that originally had the infamous butcher cover.

i grew up with Sgt. Pepper's CD version, I was truly amazed a couple of years ago when I got ahold of a vinyl copy of this great album in mono 1st UK Press. I had the impression to rediscover this masterpiece. great video Abigail!

we often thought of the beatles and the stones as being in mild competition back then. the covers of sgt pepper and satanic majesty made it obvious. the beach boys were never mentioned in the same breath till 'good vibrations' came on the air. but they were always 'beach music' to us. love your commentary!

My dad had a great looking copy of Sgt Pepper in a storage unit. He didn’t even know he had it, and was more than happy to let me have it. Definitely one of the best albums ever. When I’m 64 is my favorite track

Thanks Abigail, love your show. I Listened to Peppers when I was a kid caught up in Beatle Mania. I think the studio, producers, record company, $$$, etc, etc. sucked the life out their music. They lost their Mojo. Early Beatles were The Bomb! Still like their 2nd album up to say 1965. Rock 'n' Roll.

It's a musical postcard from London 1967.

I was blown away when I first listened to this in college. I was lucky enough to find a mono Capitol LP to play on my then meager system. When the album finished I felt like I had sat through a dramatic and compelling movie. Never felt that way about any other album even more “mature” prog albums that I loved in my youth. One of the Beatles most poignant love letters to the world ✌️🕊☮️

This album came out on my 16th birthday, and I smoked weed for the first time as I listened to it for the first time. It always makes me happy to hear it and I'll always love it.

Your Sgt Peppers dress is awesome! 🏆🏆🏆 Your analysis of the songs is really amazing---especially the Pet Sounds connection and your stellar thoughts on A Day in the Life! Wow!

Yesss, lovely Rita deserves more appreciation!! I’ll gladly be part of that fan club lol

Always got excited about a Beatles album dropping. What a mind blowing experience it was to listen to this the first time.

Love the Brand New fact!

"Lovely Rita Fan Club" member - checking in. One of my favorites on the album, along with Mr. Kite and Sgt. Pepper. Sgt. Pepper (The album) is my favorite Beatles album and favorite album of all-time, exactly for the reason you say, this was the last album they were all really together on. They all join in on the concept of Sgt. Pepper and it's great to hear. Paul's future ideas would not be as enthusiastically received (Magical Mystery Tour and Get Back). It shows the Beatles at the peak of their creativity. Each Beatle gives an exceptional effort and shows their unique individual creative abilities but they are still working together as a finely tuned unit. Sgt. Pepper is a unique and magical moment in Rock history! Thanks for the great review, Abby!

This has been the most significant album throughout my life On vinyl album as a child, on tape walkman as a teenager, CD as an adult and now on Vinyl again. love it

I'm playing the Giles Martin remix, since my 70s reissue has been played to death over the years. Thanks for another great musical inspiration for my Monday!

Small Pepper Project;... Pay particular attention to the drumming on "A Day in the Life." Quiet, elegant, perfect.. One of Ringo's very best performances. For extra credit... listen to Pink Floyd's "Paint Box" afterward. Don't these two songs have a very similar mood ? Similar use of drums, acoustic guitar and piano?

The gift from my son a few years ago was the Sargent Peppers LP picture disc. I love that you called the Paul is Dead a meme.

Another fantastic review 👏 👌 The most easily recognisable tip of the hat from other musical bands other than the Rolling Stones fashioning their music 🎶 beatles 😀 like 👍 are the Pretty Things on SF Sorrow on She says good morning 🙏 which is remarkably similar to John Lennon's Good Morning Good Morning 🙏

I’m aware this post is a year old so no one will care but my fav Sgt Pepper uniform is Ringo’s . A shocking pink military style uniform is hilarious and the British sailor cap is the cherry on the sundae.

LOVELY RiTA FANCLUB ViCE PRESIDENT HERE ! 20:30 ~

So glad I found your channel. Great insights into classic albums!

Your review of SPLHCB was so incisive for someone so young! I mean, I remember the summer it was released and have read countless reviews since but you added info I hadn't heard before. I don't consider it the best Beatles album but I recognize how revolutionary it was. The jacket, the art and the instrumentation, all of it, was so advanced. My favorite tracks are not the biggies, I like Fixing a Hole, Getting Better and my sleeper, She's Leaving Home. Like Good Morning, Good Morning for you, She's Leaving grew on me over time. I love your videos and big ups for your Pepper jacket!

Holds a special place in my heart. The first Beatles album I listened to from start to finish, again and again

It's incredible how deeply you have dived into this. I love it.

Love this video. Well done

You look very 60s style. My big sister was a cheerleader in 1968 at Walt Whitman High, in Huntington, Long Island, NY.. I was about 11, 12 yrs old. All the high school cheerleaders would meet at our house on Thursday night. They used to iron each other's hair on the ironing board. I only allowed 1 friend over to visit Billy. He was my coolest friend, and a real gentleman. The girls called him carrot top. He liked that. Those girls liked the Beatles, the beach boys, The Supremes, and a band called Rare Earth. Rare Earth did a version of a song called; 'Get Ready'. That was a real bad ass song.

Outstanding content and presentation as always! 👍

OMFG! I just came across your channel for the first time today and can't stop watching. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for all the great research and fun of so much music that I grew up with, love and even helped mix and master in some instances. You are going to be huge, and I plan to share your channel broadly with friends, clients and loved ones.

PEPPER!!! Congrats for the 2nd season, Abigail, can't wait for more episodes!

Love the Beatles, and love your videos! 💞💓💞

It would be cool if sgt peppers was just on the radio right now

Love the intro guitar. Sets the tone for something special coming up

Abigail you rock!!

Excellent review, thank you.

Great video abby

You look amazing!

I had a picture disc of Pepper and it sounded remarkably good! Really like your shown Abigail!

Personally, I don't find "Getting Better" to be a filler at all. As a matter of fact, I think that it is one of the best tracks/songs of the album.

You are brilliant, girl!

Great review as ever Abi. I was in the fan club in the early years.

Another great video Abby. I am a HUGE fan of The Beatles. I first heard the album back in the 70s as a kid, when my older brother played it on our parents console stereo. Faves include Getting Better and Fixing a Hole. Love your outfit. John's costume is my fave.

I am like the worlds biggest Beatles fan, so this video literally made me scream with joy when I saw it posted!

Abigail comes up with a lot of nice looks and outfits.....very creative.

That was beautiful the way you described a day in the life. Hope you can keep that up for other albums and maybe explore other beatles vinyl pressings cause that can open more doors for you.

That is the prefect review of that album

Great video, Abby. Loved your opera house analogy. I'm currently studying art synesthesia and you really painted a picture in my head.

❤the Beatles albums back to front on vinyl and CDs 💿

YES, lovely rita is so good.

You crack me up with your humor and intrigued me with your research and information. Very interesting video. You definitely seem like you know your Beatles :-) And btw, if someone doesn't have 20 minutes to watch your video, well..., they are just too busy! I didn't have time earlier today so I waited until I was at home tonight. And besides; I'd much rather watch interesting videos like yours than the junk they have on TV hehe 🎶👍😎 Oh great and interesting review on a great and interesting album indeed! Thanks for putting it all together.

Sgt. Pepper is such a great album. You can't go wrong with this album.

Although Pattie might have brought the Hare Krishna movement to George's attention (one account says he first met a monk at a party in 1969), a primary early influence was the book Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, given to George by Ravi Shankar, whom he met in 1966. Harrison chose to put Yogananda and the 3 last members of that succession of gurus on the Sgt. Pepper's cover. George gave a copy of that same book to Gary Wright, who wrote his hit "Dream Weaver" about Yogananda. I also think that the line in "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" about the floor needing sweeping is referring to an incident described in the book where after Yogananda's guru had caused him to have a spiritual experience, he handed him a broom and asked him to sweep up (inferring that he should remain grounded no matter what psychological state he was in).

Totally with you on Lovely Rita! Always loved that track. A day in the Life was recorded during the first week of my life. I love that song and the album. I was 15 when I first heard it back in 1982.

OMG! You inspire me with your style and respect for the craft disciplines of eld. This album I never heard vinyl as by the time I got into the Beatles I had shifted to the CD world. I still remember my first experience with this album, it was a revelation among revelations, The Wall and Dark Side Of The Moon preceded it. All of them first deep experience was on cassette Walkman, out on walks in the neighborhood ca. 1989-91. Then Brian Eno in the 70's especially, hearing Another Green World for the first time later on, 1995-6 or so, that was just as revelatory as the previous trio. I was into heavy metal as a bassist in the mid 80's, but then I began to explore the influences Steve Harris of Iron Maiden mentioned in interviews back then; Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Yes. My first girlfriend's brothers turned me onto The Beatles as I never knew them; Rubber Soul onward was different than the boys I heard on my Mom's radio choices as a kid. I think you'd really dig my music, Abigail. Everything I do is inspired by the psychedelic dimensions of sound, especially the 1960's and 70's when all my favorite sounds already existed. The only benefit of digital I honor is for example you only need a laptop or a tablet and a USB keyboard or two, maybe some USB organ pedals like Rush used, or one amp that can model well a bunch of amps, so as to not have to haul a multi semi truck army of gear for a tour with lots of different sounds. I also dig your astrology knowings...hey there Gemini sister! I'm Gemini Moon, zero degree which is conjunct Pleiades currently at the 29th degree of Tropical Taurus, and my South Node is on Betelgeuse in the late degrees of Gemini, so I really dig your tangents, and with my Gemini ruler Mercury in my 4th house combust the Sun in Capricorn, with Saturn way up almost topping my inner sky but for Sirius as the highest shiny thing up when I was born, the Moon bright and gibbous in the 9th, slightly setting, your history talks really inspire me. I'm glad to witness anyone born after 1996 who can really sing and or play, or like yourself who has a true fan's appreciation of music and also a hands on craft in your fashion devotion. At 49 I'm singing and playing all my instruments better than ever and ready to participate in the ongoing evolution of classic Rock in the prog dimension I so deeply dig. I see a great revival of real music when Neptune reaches Aries in a few years. Music has never been so stupid to me as it has been since Neptune entered Pisces; lazy and outsourced to the robot, the Neptune in Pisces kids just space out in digital cartoon space and if there was ever any human input you'd never know it after it passes through a thousand filters and gets hacked up into a uniform grid. Anyway, old guy ramble from an age when we had an attention span the length of an album side. Thank you Abby, for keeping some love alive for the musics of old when people playing instruments together was the only way things got done.

Abby, yer a gem. The threads were uniformly well-suited, so to speak; therefore the metric becomes moustache-centric, in which case George wins. …by a hair, naturally.

New to your channel already love it here. This is my music that is so intertwined like kudzu on the side of the road in my life. Instant subscriper. Funny aside when I was in the army, Sgt named Pepper needless to say always had jokes thrown at him. But jokes on us he named his first daughter Lucy Rita.

Love your musical tastes! Same as me listening to bands from the 60s and 70s. Here's my favourite: Chicago, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Grand Funk Railroad, Johnny and Edgar Winter, and a lot more.

Love Your chanell, love Your taste, n LOVE YOUR HUMOR,.. and adore the Beatles xxx R

Hi Abi. I’m wayne, on You Tube I’m the Aussie Vinyl Guy. Just wanted to let you know I really love your videos. Their Fresh and interesting. Glad to see the younger generation discovering these classics. Cheers. Wayne

We had a 100 yr old barn with a couple of horses, 3 big dogs and a cat, on 2 acres. I was the youngest, my 2 sisters and brother were teenagers. Mom allowed kids to smoke pot on the property. She was a successful realestate lady. Dad never knew about her policy. She didn't want the teenagers to get in trouble. She was also president of the PTA. Funny huh? Teenager's were hanging out at our house alot. One guy said to me your mom's a really far out lady. I replied; I know. That Beatles song; 'Good Morning'; always reminds me of those days. Makes me smile, and amuses me. That was a long time ago man.

When I was young (in the 80s) my first music loves were 60s records like the ones you love, my first tape was a Beach Boys live album, followed by Sgt Pepperoni and Are You Experienced. I did not stay in the past, I listen to mostly recent music now, but your videos touch on the same feeling that I had as a kid. I would love to hear your take on We're Only In It For the Money.

Abigail has the best personality

Fantastic video! It took me a while to really fully appreciate this album, always liking Revolver just a little more. But as I got a little older, this album started to really sit better with me (especially after finding an original 1967 mono copy at a flea market - with cutouts and inner sleeve!) Truly an album that propelled them into serious Rock music. Amazing Pepper outfit, and you look like you could be hanging out with Pattie Boyd back in the day!

My favorite or George's Indian songs came later. It was the flip side of "Lady Madonna" in '68. It wasn't on an album till Past Masters. "The Inner Light" is a great song. An instrumental version is on the latest remasted CD of Wonderwall Music.

Excellent Abby, You started your fist season with Their Satanic Majesties Request ,a Fav of mine. and then a perfect kick off, with Sgt. Peppers for the second season, A season which I am looking forward to, Great job on the research again right down to the inner sleeve, I'm very impressed that you also know about the Dutch Artist The Fool, they are a forgotten greatness of design and use of color. Keep spreading the knowledge of these great Musicians and Artists of the past. Also Great outfit, You need to design and have your own line of clothes!

Hey Abby, believe it or not, your videos are always a highlight of my whole week.😘 I own a copy of this masterpiece myself, but unfortunately only a repress from 1977, which has a very good sound. Unfortunately, my Beatles collection is very small, but it will of course continue to grow. I can't wait for your next video.😍

I think "Fixing a Hole" is the most underrated track on Sgt. Pepper. It's a gorgeous song - managing to be ethereal and punchy at the same time. To me it's one of the two best tracks on Pepper, along with, of course "A Day in the Life". Sorry, Abigail, but calling it a "buffer" is ridiculous!

I love the way you dress to suit the band music est.Sgt P one of the greatest albums ever produced.

This album is as old as I am came out the year I was born I was blown away when I first heard this I got most of thier.albums on orignal This album here is what started it all for me as far as music wise

I was waiting for a Beatles episode and this one did not disappoint. Funny, isn't it, how Paul's concept results in songs so unique to the Pepper l.p...it's hard to picture "Rita" on Revolver. I had a similar experience to yours re. belatedly appreciating the lead guitar (a lot of it by Paul) in Good Morning, Good Morning. And re. A Day In The Life (love how you talked about that)...man, when the Beatles finished an iconic generational milestone l.p., they FINISHED it. Of course am very much digging your Pepper look Abbie, you make a fine Lucy!

Absolutely brilliant review Love the ps to lovely rita meter maid.

that Brian Wilson SMiLE soundbite tho < 3 NEW FAV CHANNEL

Fabulous album. If you haven't heard it on vinyl, really you haven't heard anything at all. I prefer the mono pressing, though the stereo is nice too. Cool to hear that you're an Elvis fan too Abigail. 👍🏼

Hi😊This will be the go-to video explanation of this great album 😊✨✨✨✨👍

In 1966/67 , the Beatles took a HUGE chance by producing this record. I've seen a You Tube clip of Dick Clark's Bandstand showing teens a pre Pepper video of the Fabs doing ''Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane''. And guess what, MOST of the youngsters DIDN'T LIKE IT and thought the Beatles looked weird with the facial hair. The Monkees were also the hottest band on the planet at the time out selling the Beatles AND the Stones for a time. This album was brave, bold and a big gamble, it might have bombed with teens, but its timing was perfect when released at the start of the Summer of Love 1967 , it BLEW THE COMPETION AWAY!!!! It changed EVERYTHING in pop music. It changed the music world completely, Again, The Beatles did it FIRST .......

John in green for me. And two of the boys sporting their M.B.E.s, which are usually never for public display, according to protocol, that's rebelliousness for you ! I'm reading Craig Brown's book, "One, Two,Three, Four - The Beatles In Time", at the moment, so your start to Season 2 was perfectly timed for me, Thank You Abi !

❤Abby...Road...cheers...luv all yr content...you know your wiki...best wished😅