Did you thought a lot of time before you got it? or you just were in a music store and bought it?
It was a gift... a present in christmas time, birthday or another?
June 01 2007
40 years celebrating this album. Tell us your experience
2007-06-01 07:45:26 · 26 answers · asked by MidKnight 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
I bought it on vinyl 40 years ago on the day it was released........my first version was mono. Around 3-4 years later I bought the stereo version and it took me 3 weeks to convince myself it was the same band!
In 1987 I got it on CD (I think it was released in it's 20th anniversary) - it's now on my hard drive, and I'm eagerly awaiting the next super-duper remaster......lol
2007-06-02 05:26:48 · answer #1 · answered by twentieth_century_refugee 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I first saw The Beatles on TV in the early 1960's when I was a child. I always remember seeing All You Need Is Love, and Hey Jude when first broadcast on TV.
It was not until 1973 that I first heard Sgt Pepper, when my older brother built a stereo amplifier out of a couple of old valve radios, and played the fox hunt chase part of the album through it, so that the chase went from one speaker to the other.
I first bought the album after having read "Shout, The True Story of The Beatles" by Philip Norman. I still have the book, an old 1982 edition.
My neice gave me her CD copy three years ago. My brother collects vinyl records and has several copies of Sgt Pepper including early mono copies.
The only thing that gets me is that, unlike Pink Floyd who released special anniversary copies of Dark Side Of The Moon, nothing happened with Sgt Pepper. I was expecting to see a special anniversary CD, with both mono and stereo versions of the album, on seperate discs, as a double CD. But most Beatles albums will be reissued like this soon anyway.
I wouldn't say Sgt Pepper was the best album of all time, because there was some great music on the Elektra record label at the time, as well as Cream, Deep Purple, Pink Floyd, and other groups around during 1967.
2007-06-03 17:37:12 · answer #2 · answered by Zheia 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bought it at the time when it first came out as I did all the Beatles albums. I do not think I have any Beatles albums now except perhaps the White Album packed away somewhere. I grew out of the Beatles with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and many other varied bands since. The John Lennon versus Paul McCartney upset finished them for me and they have never done it for me since although at the time they were the bees knees.
2007-06-08 09:35:01 · answer #3 · answered by adrianblue7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was seven or eight years old when I finally obtained possession of "my own" music.
For Christmas, 1978 or 79, my mom, aka Santa, gave me "Wings Greatest Hits" and "Sgt. Pepper's"
Previously, I simply enjoyed (and sometimes just tolerated) my mother's extensive vinyl collection.
While my music tastes have changed over the years, as well as the mode of delivery (I've replaced these albums with cassettes and now CDs) they still remain in my favorites.
Although I haven't seen it in years, the Bee Gee's movie enthralled me as well. I remember staying up late for the Saturday night movie to watch it. I think between the age of 8 and 12, I probably watched it twenty times! So fun...
I wonder if I'd think it was cheesy now? AHA, off to the video store!
2007-06-01 08:12:53 · answer #4 · answered by kamcrash 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Back before Cable TV, HBO was broadcast with special antennae here in Milwaukee. I had a friend that got it, and we fell in love with the Sgt. Pepper's movie that came out in the 70s.
So... unfortunately, some of my earliest exposure to the beatles was via the Bee Gees. But, I fell in love with the music and bought the album very quickly after that.
2007-06-01 07:51:10 · answer #5 · answered by cardman_tom 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I bought it the day it was released. I was working in a record store at the time. Yeah, I know. I'm old. But it still stands up as one of the greatest albums ever made. And it had a huge effect on rock and roll as we know it today.
2007-06-03 19:13:47 · answer #6 · answered by Dee D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My mum got the CD when it was first released, so she gave me her cassette album. Then a few years later she gave me her CD. It's still my favourite Beatles album, favourite song is a tie between Within You Without You and A Day In the Life.
2007-06-01 07:58:09 · answer #7 · answered by Chipmunk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As each album was released I went to the record shop and got them all.
I still have the collection allin perfect condition
My pepper still has the original card insert, sgt. stripes etc
Only ever play the DYDs now
2007-06-01 14:29:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
For the time, it is/replaced into an age-defining album. before everything, it replaced into The Beatles, and in 1967 --- human beings waited for each Beatle launch --- it is complicated to describe. They have been THE band. era. it is like there have been The Beatles, and then, there have been different bands ... Secondly, it has some remarkable music on it. The tracks are each and each stand-alones in excellence.
2016-12-12 08:36:42 · answer #9 · answered by cruickshank 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad had it on Vinyl back in the 70s and I would listen to it constantly. When I moved out and got my own place I bought it on CD. It really is one of the greatest records of all time.
2007-06-01 08:33:37 · answer #10 · answered by Next evolutionary step... 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋