So, everyone knows the tragic story of the Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
In the middle of recording the album John Lennon fell off the EMI studios roof and died, and the album remained unfinished.
But what if he hadn't died?
Would the album have been as good as the legend suggests? I've heard the "Seargent Pepper sessions" set that Paul executive-produced last year, but it just doesn't convince me.
Remember, their last single "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" was a bit strange - If the album had been as weird as 'Strawberry Fields Forever', I dunno how it would've gone down with the record buying public.
Has anyone here seen the film clip they filmed for those songs? Apparently it's available in some collectors' trading circles.. Man, who knows maybe they could've set music videos as a trend far earlier than the late 1970s?
And what of the rumours that John INTENDED to jump? Quite a few people actually thought that the last track on Revolver was a thinly veiled message to the fans.. "turn off your mind, relax and float downstream.. it is not dying..."
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(OOC - based in part on
http://www.feelnumb.com/2009/08/23/john-lennons-acid-trip-on-the-abbey-road-roof/ - although March 11 is towards the END of Pepper sessions.
I propose the fatal fall being on Thursday 9 Feb 1967 - during sessions for the basic track of "Good Morning Good Morning".. and notably ONE DAY before the orchestral overdub for 'A Day in the Life' was due to be recorded - the session cancelled along with the remainder of work on Sgt Pepper.
The promo-clips for Strawberry Fields Forever & Penny Lane had both been filmed, but were not released.
Oh, and Abbey Road studios is still known as 'EMI studios', thanks to there being no Beatles album of that name...)