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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: IS SGT. PEPPER REALLY A CONCEPT ALBUM?
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 09:55:43 EDT
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> I am not sure there was a specific, album-unifying concept. Sgt Pepper,
> however, was the first full-length LP to be connected from song to song:
> the intro and outro "live" versions of the title tune, the laughter
> at the end of "Within You Without You", the background noises in "Good
> Morning", the various references to drugs that were heard by many (the Fab
> Four always insisted that there was no such intent)
> 
> This was not the first time a group had attempted to link songs together.
> The Who's "A Quick One (while he's away)" is one major example. SGT PEPPER,
> however, was the first LP to be so linked from beginning to end.
> Marcel Simon

It was indeed intended to be such (if by connected you mean musically running
one into the next), and in fact "Sgt. Pepper" itself goes into "A Little Help",
as well as "Good Morning" into "[REPRISE]" into "A Day in the Life", but the
rest of the album contained physically disjoint songs.  EMI/Capitol wouldn't
let them create a completely contiguous album.
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr