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SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND

The Beatles

 

Proto-Prog

4.36 | 1218 ratings

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4 stars For 1967, this was huge!! This record is more than rock: it contains the early psychedelic patterns, so present during the Flower Power era; it also contains basic progressive elements that surely contributed to make the progressive rock style itself to emerge: the prog band that has been able to take it and elaborate even more on it was definitely King Crimson: the record has many similitudes with this prog rock band. "She is leaving" sounds like early Alan Parson's Project. One will be surprisingly amazed by the quality of the recording, and by the technical performance involved. The songs are very varied; some are really catchy and made the history, like "Lucy in the sky with diamonds" "Fixing a hole" or "Little help with my friends", which has been a cover song of so many artists later on, including Joe Cocker among others. The instruments involved are not only guitar, bass, drums, lead & backing vocals: there are also many percussions, woodwind instruments (clarinet), strings & horns arrangements, piano and (maybe?) some keyboards. There are some animals sounds, crowd animation, circus ambience, so the tracks are rather loaded, and actually no songs are bad. It is easy to see here why the Beatles are considered as being the fathers of progressive rock!

Rating: 4.5 stars

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