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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
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Posted: Thu Sep 26 11:24:27 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:14:54 EDT
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Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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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