Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rti-sel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!rti-sel!wfi From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: IS SGT. PEPPER REALLY A CONCEPT ALBUM? Message-ID: <424@rti-sel.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 11:24:27 EDT Article-I.D.: rti-sel.424 Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:24:27 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:14:54 EDT References: <1198@daemen.UUCP> Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) Distribution: net Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC Lines: 18 Summary: In article <1198@daemen.UUCP> pitzonka@daemen.UUCP (Bill Parmenter Esq.) writes: >All my life, I have been informed that the Beatles' SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY >HEART CLUB BAND is the first real concept album. My question is: WHAT'S >THE CONCEPT? I could never figure it out (if there was one). If anyone >can help me please reply via the net. I always thought it was very loosely based on the theme of love and friendship as antidotes to 20th-century alienation (hence, 'lonely hearts club'). With A Little Help From My Friends is obviously about the power of friendship. A Day In The Life seems to be about the stress and alienation of everyday life. When I'm 64 suggests that love and continuity in a family context can be antidotes to the stress and alienation. Lovely Rita Meter Maid may be about someone's lonely fantasies about a woman he sees on the street but whom he really doesn't have the courage to go up and talk to. -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com