Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: It Was Forty Years Ago Today (Ashgate Popular and Folk Music Series)

209 Pages·2008·1.27 MB·English

by  Olivier Julien

Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles
It Was Forty Years Ago Today
Edited by
Olivier Julien
Sgt. PePPer and the BeatleS
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Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles
It Was Forty Years ago today
Edited by
OlIvIer JulIen
Universities of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV)
and Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris III), France
© the Contributors 2008
all rights reserved. no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system
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1988, to be identified as the authors of this work.
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles : it was forty years ago today. –
(Ashgate popular and folk music series)
1. Beatles. Sgt. Pepper’s lonely hearts Club Band
2. Rock music – England – History and criticism
I. Julien, Olivier
782.4’2166’0922
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sgt. Pepper and the Beatles: it was forty years ago today / edited by Olivier Julien.
p. cm. – (Ashgate popular and folk music series)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171) and index.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-6249-5 (alk. paper)
1. Beatles. Sgt. Pepper’s lonely hearts Club Band. I. Julien, Olivier, 1969–
Ml421.B4S47 2007
782.42166092’2–dc22
2007035687
ISBn 978-0-7546-6249-5 (hbk)
ISBn 978-0-7546-6708-7 (pbk)
ISBN 978-0-7546-9854-8 (ebk.V)
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Bach musicological font developed by © Yo tomita.
Contents
List of figures and tables vii
List of music examples ix
Notes on contributors xi
General editor’s preface xv
Preface xvii
‘their production will be second to none’: an introduction to Sgt. Pepper 1
Olivier Julien
1 ‘Tangerine trees and marmalade skies’: cultural agendas or optimistic
escapism? 11
Sheila Whiteley
2 Sgt. Pepper and the diverging aesthetics of lennon and McCartney 23
Terence O’Grady
3 Sgt. Pepper’s quest for extended form 33
Thomas MacFarlane
4 the sound design of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band 45
Michael Hannan
5 the Beatles and Indian music 63
David Reck
6 the Beatles’ psycheclassical synthesis: psychedelic classicism and
classical psychedelia in Sgt. Pepper 75
Naphtali Wagner
7 Cover story: magic, myth and music 91
Ian Inglis
8 Within and without: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and
psychedelic insight 103
Russell Reising and Jim LeBlanc
9 the whatchamucallit in the garden: Sgt. Pepper and fables of
interference 121
John Kimsey
vi SGT. PEPPER AND THE BEATLES
10 The act you’ve known for all these years: a re-encounter with
Sgt. Pepper 139
Allan Moore
11 ‘A lucky man who made the grade’: Sgt. Pepper and the rise of a
phonographic tradition in twentieth-century popular music 147
Olivier Julien
References 171
Index of names 181
Index of songs, albums, films and musical works 187
List of figures and tables
Figures
6.1ab an interrupted ascending Urlinie and its twisted realization in
‘She’s leaving home’ 81
6.1c a detailed voice-leading graph of ‘She’s leaving home’ 81
6.2 a hidden counterpoint in the compound ‘ostinato’ of ‘lucy in the
Sky with Diamonds’ 84
6.3abc Three rival tonal interpretations of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
(A major, D major, G major) 86
6.4 A detailed voice-leading graph of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’
according to the outline given in Figure 6.3b 88
Tables
3.1 the three-movement structure of the Abbey Road Medley 43
6.1 The key signatures of ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’ according
to Beatles 1993 and Beatles 1983 85
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List of music examples
3.1 ‘Getting Better’: electric guitar (intro) 38
3.2 ‘Fixing a Hole’: bass figure (0’16”–0’23”) 39
3.3 ‘Lovely Rita’: bass figure (coda) 39
5.1 the two phrases of the melody of ‘tomorrow never Knows’ 66
5.2 The scale of ‘Blue Jay Way’ (south-Indian ranjani raga) 70
5.3 The tihai-like riff in ‘Here Comes the Sun’ 73