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A Few
Facts
The Beatles
8th album
Recorded: December 6th
1966April
21st
1967
at Abbey Road Studios
Released: June 1st 1967 in the United Kingdom @ No.1 for 15 weeks
Released:
June
2nd 1967 in the United States @ No.1 for 27 weeks
Label: Parlophone PMC 7027 (Mono)/PCS 7027 (Stereo)
Album cover: created by Jann Haworth and Peter Blake.
Grammy
Award winner:
Album of the Year - 1967
Grammy Award winner:
Contemporary Album - 1967
Grammy Award winner: Best Album Cover, Graphic Arts - 1967
Grammy
Award winner:
Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical - 1967
Induced into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame - 1988
No.1 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time" -
2003.
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Other
objects within the group include:
*Adolf
Hitler covered up behind the band .. *A doll
wearing a sweater (hommage to The Rolling Stones) .. *A
velvet snake .. *Fukusuke, Japanese china
figure .. *A stone figure of Snow White ..
*A garden gnome .. *A
tuba .. *Cloth grandmother-figure by Jann
Haworth .. *A hookah, or water tobacco pipe
.. *Cloth Figure of Shirley Temple by Jann
Haworth .. *A Mexican candlestick .. *A
television set .. *A stone figure of a girl
.. *Another stone figure .. *A
statue brought over from John Lennon's house .. *A
trophy .. *A doll of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi
.. *A drum skin, designed by fairground artist
Joe Ephgrave.
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ORIGINAL
1967 TRACKS:
Side one
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 2:04
"With a Little Help from My Friends"
2:46
(mistitled
on album label as "A Little Help from My Friends" on early pressings)
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" 3:30
"Getting Better" 2:49
"Fixing a Hole" 2:38
"She's Leaving Home" 3:37
"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" 2:39
Side
two
"Within You Without You" (Harrison) 5:07
"When I'm Sixty-Four" 2:37
"Lovely Rita" 2:44
"Good Morning Good Morning" 2:43
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" 1:20
"A Day in the Life" 5:33
MUSICIAN CREDITS:
John Lennon guitars, keyboards, piano,
percussion, vocals
Paul McCartney bass guitar, guitars,
piano, keyboards, vocals
George Harrison guitars, fuzz, mouth
organ, percussion, tambourine, sitar, piano, vocals, tamboura
Ringo Starr drums, percussion, mouth
organ, bells, piano, vocals
George Martin keyboards, piano, harmonium
Mal Evans piano, mouth organ, harmonium,
percussion, vocals
Neil Aspinall mouth organ, tamboura
John Oedry piano on "With a Little
Help from My Friends"
James Buck horn on "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Neil Sanders horn on "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Tony Randall horn on "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
John Burden horn on "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
Erich Gruenberg violin on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Derek Jacobs violin on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Trevor Williams violin on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Jose Luis García violin on
"She's Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
John Underwood viola on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Stephen Shingles viola on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Dennis Vigay cello on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Alan Dalziel cello on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Gordon Pearce double bass on "She's
Leaving Home" and "A Day in the Life"
Sheila Bromberg harp on "She's
Leaving Home"
V. Lankshwarna swordmandel on "Within
You Without You"
Shambu-Das dilruba on "Within
You Without You"
Ravi Shankar dilruba and sitar on
"Within You Without You"
Erich Gruenberg violin on "Within
You Without You"
Alan Loveday violin on "Within
You Without You"
Julien Gaillard violin on "Within
You Without You"
Paul Scherman violin on "Within
You Without You"
Ralph Elman violin on "Within
You Without You"
David Wolfsthal violin on "Within
You Without You"
Jack Rothstein violin on "Within
You Without You"
Jack Greene violin on "Within
You Without You"
Reginald Kilbey cello on "Within
You Without You"
Allen Ford cello on "Within You
Without You"
Peter Beavan cello on "Within
You Without You"
Robert Burns clarinet on "When
I'm Sixty-Four" and "A Day in the Life"
Henry Mackenzie clarinet on "When
I'm Sixty-Four" and "A Day in the Life"
Frank Reidy clarinet on "When
I'm Sixty-Four"
Barrie Cameron sax on "Good Morning
Good Morning"
David Glyde sax on "Good Morning
Good Morning"
lan Holmes sax on "Good Morning
Good Morning"
John Lee horn on "Good Morning
Good Morning"
Geoff Emerick recording engineer

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