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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/30/arts ... .html?_r=0]...Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play...
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
Today's episode of q will include an interview with one of the people who designed the album cover. Listen online at 10:00 (am or pm, pick a station in your preferred North American time zone) at http://www.cbc.ca/radio/
-- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 
And, at least on my local PBS channel they're broadcasting a documentary about the making of the album. Check your local listings if intregued
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky? That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry- NO QUARTER!!! -- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children
Fun fact: The Ontario Provincial Police officer who headed the security detail for the Beatles's concerts in Toronto in 1964 was Sgt. Randall Pepper.
Coincidence? Maybe. The officer and the band came to respect each other, but Paul McCartney says they didn't name the album after him (even though he was the one who wore an OPP patch on the album's cover). http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ca ... -1.4141074 -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012 |
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