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who ever played guitar on fixin a hole is one of the reasons that might be my favorite song on the album.what a sound. ya right on michael johnstone.

In the 1980’s Michael Jackson acquired the publishing rights to most of the Beatles songs. He paid $47.5 million. He even outbid McCartney. Estimated value of the entire catalog today is close to $1 billion dollars.

In 1995 Jackson sold 50% of the rights to Sony in for $95 million. Shortly after that we began hearing Beatles songs in TV commercials: “Revolution” was heard in a NIKE commercial. “Getting Better” was heard in a Phillips commercial. It’s kind of sad. Imagine the Beatles “Revolution” (the original recording, not a remake) being used to sell sneakers. Lennon must have turned over in his grave.
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SGT PEPPER

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

The business side of this music is totally removed as far as I am concerned from the personal part of it for me. I don't care who owns it and exploits it for what.

For me it is music that I grew up with that had an impact on me and in some ways still does.

In as much as using it for advertising, the owners of the rights to this music might want to be aware that for every person who hears a Beatles tune used in an ad and likes it, there are others who hear and an hate it being used like that. This translates into how they view the product being advertised also.

I have heard some of the advertising remakes of the songs and some are horrid. I also heard the new remix "Love" CD and enjoyed what they did with the recordings.

...for every person who hears a Beatles tune used in an ad and likes it, there are others who hear and an hate it being used like that.

Absolutely True!

And here is the London Hipsters' 2007 updated version...


Indian mystic Sri Yukteswar Giri replaced by Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama.
Sinister occult leader Aleister Crowley replaced by Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard.
Bawdy hellraising actress Mae West replaced by rehab hellraiser Lindsay Lohan.
Offensive stand-up Lenny Bruce replaced by edgy stand-up Ricky Gervais.
Pioneer of electronic classical music Karlheinz Stockhausen replaced by electro-wizard Moby.
Comedian and actor WC Fields replaced by pint-sized funnyman Danny DeVito.
Founder of analytical psychology Carl Jung replaced by hypnotist Paul McKenna.
Dark crime writer Edgar Allan Poe replaced by darker crime writer Ian Rankin.
Dancing movie legend Fred Astaire replaced by Dirty Dancing’s Patrick Swayze.
Leading artistic chronicler Richard Merkin replaced by graffiti commentator Banksy.
Painting of air force icon Varga Girl replaced by Forces beauty Nell McAndrew.
Big-faced actor Huntz Hall replaced by big- faced actor Nicolas Cage.
Genius builder and designer Simon Rodia replaced by architect Sir Norman Foster.
Cutting-edge beat poet Bob Dylan replaced by a crustier but still cool Bob Dylan.
Fifth Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe replaced by fifth Arctic Monkey Andy Nicholson.
Controversial cartoonist Aubrey Beardsley becomes Simpsons creator Matt Groening.
Old mannequin replaced by Topshop mannequin.
Police founder Robert Peel replaced by Sting, the founder of The Police.
Drug-dabbling writer Aldous Huxley replaced by off-his-head writer Will Self.
Poet Dylan Thomas replaced by Irish rhymer Seamus Heaney.
US screenwriter Terry Southern replaced by Goodfellas director Martin Scorsese.
22. Doo-wop singer Dion DiMucci replaced by R&B star Usher.
Comedy actor Tony Curtis replaced by funnyman Adam Sandler.
Cutting-edge artist Wallace Berman replaced by shark-pickler Damien Hirst.
Radio favourite Tommy Handley replaced by gobby radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles.
Blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe replaced by platinum starlet Scarlett Johannson.
Drug-inspired writer William S Burroughs replaced by serial-caner author Irvine Welsh.
Spectral yogi pin-up Sri Mahavatar Babaji replaced by Celeb BB pin-up Shilpa Shetty.
One half of comedy double act Stan Laurel replaced by Dec’s other half Ant McPartlin.
Painter of heroic figures Richard Lindner replaced by Spider-Man creator Stan Lee.
Tubbier half of comedy double act Oliver Hardy becomes Ant’s pal Declan Donnelly.
Creator of the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx replaced by Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Time Machine author HG Wells replaced by 2001 creator Arthur C Clarke.
Yoga guru Sri Parama-Hansa Yogananda replaced by yoga obsessive Madonna.
Desert hero Lawrence of Arabia replaced by Gulf War veteran Andy McNabb.
Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud replaced by Sun Agony Aunt Deidre Sanders.
Mannequin replaced by New Look mannequin.
Pin-up cartoon of a Petty Girl replaced by cyberbabe Lara Croft.
Wise-cracking stage man Max Miller replaced by cheeky pop star Robbie Williams.
Another Petty Girl replaced by cartoon sexpot Jessica Rabbit.
Moody actor Marlon Brando replaced by grumpy thespian Russell Crowe.
Cowboy actor Tom Mix replaced by spaghetti western gunslinger Clint Eastwood.
Writer, poet and wit Oscar Wilde replaced by writer and comic Stephen Fry.
Zorro actor Tyrone Power replaced by Mask of Zorro star Antonio Banderas.
Modern artist Larry Bell replaced by unmade bed artist Tracy Emin.
African explorer David Livingstone replaced by British adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes.
Tarzan actor Johnny Weissmuller replaced by King Of The Jungle Phil Tufnell.
Writer Stephen Crane replaced by Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown.
Music hall comedian Issy Bonn replaced by stand-up Jimmy Carr.
Legendary Irish writer George Bernard Shaw replaced by modern Irish writer Roddy Doyle.
3D artist and designer HC Westermann replaced by iPod designer Jonathan Ive.
Liverpool FC legend Albert Stubbins replaced by former Everton star Wayne Rooney.
Indian spiritualist Sri Lahiri Mahasaya replaced by spoonbender Uri Gellar.
Alice In Wonderland writer Lewis Carroll replaced by Harry Potter creator JK Rowling.
Boxer Sonny Liston replaced by British Olympic silver medallist Amir Khan.
Waxwork of George Harrison replaced by waxwork of Arctic Monkey Alex Turner.
Waxwork of John Lennon replaced by waxwork of Arctic Monkey Jamie Cook.
Waxwork of Ringo Starr replaced by waxwork of Arctic Monkey Nick O’Malley.
Waxwork of Paul McCartney replaced by waxwork of Arctic Monkey Matt Helders.
Albert Einstein replaced by Brief History Of Time genius Stephen Hawking.
John Lennon replaced by son Sean.
Ringo Starr replaced by son Zak.
Paul McCartney replaced by daughter Stella.
George Harrison replaced by son Dhani.
Child star Bobby Breen replaced by off-the-rails Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin.
Hollywood actress Marlene Dietrich replaced by Aussie screen star Nicole Kidman.
Legionnaire from the Order of the Buffalo replaced by anonymous British soldier in Iraq.
Shapely actress Diana Dors replaced by curvy Kelly Brook.
Child star Shirley Temple replaced by Britney Spears in Disney TV show.
Japanese Fukusuke doll replaced by Teletubby toy.
Snow White figurine replaced by Toy Story’s Buzz Lightyear.
Statue from home of John Lennon replaced by statue of Bobby Moore.
Plastic doll replaced by Bratz doll.
Doll with Rolling Stones jumper replaced by ITV Digital Monkey with Arctic Monkeys T-shirt.
Figurine of Hindu goddess Lakshmi replaced by Barbie doll.

I know- the Arctic Monkeys? What cheek. Ridiculous.
But give the originators of this "outrage" an E, for trying anyway.

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hmmm... everyone from the Dalai Lama to Clint Eastwood.

I've never posted anything with addtional paste-in material here beofre so was a bit clueless as to how to go about that.
But anyhow.
Sgt Pepper will always be one of those iconic albums that means more maybe as a symbol of it's era than it does for its music, (arguably) Me, I like Revolver and the White album better (& that, if we exclude Revolution #9, more or less a waste of listening time in my mind) as music. However there's a lot I DO love about Sgt Pepper- esp McCartney's bass playing, and the way it all flows together. Some tunes on it I have never enjoyed much or at least I'll skip them when I play it- She's LEaving Home, A Day in the Life, Mr Kite- those tracks I sort of need to be in the particular mood to hear, to play it all the way through most of the time.
But I love Lovely Rita, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and Getting Better & Fixing a Hole. I see this record more as the transition album for the Beatles -I think Revolver has more solid tunes though.
And it would have been better had they onlythough tto include Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. But that's to second guess it- as it is, it was maybe "The" record of the last century and that's probably how it'll be remembered.

Hey, I can fantasize, can't I?



Thanks to my wife Laurie for the artwork.

Mike, So YOU are "the 5th Beatle" I've always heard about!

As much as I liked Revolver and Pepper,for me the Beatles peaked at Rubber Soul.

Rubber Soul... what an album! I wore it out when I was a kid. The songs on this record have a nice warm acoustic feeling.

Norwegian Wood
I've Just Seen a Face
Michelle
I'm Looking Through You
In My Life
...etc

According to Wikipedia:

The American version of the album greatly influenced the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, who "answered" the album by releasing Pet Sounds in 1966. In turn, Pet Sounds greatly impressed the Beatles and served as inspiration for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.