I was looking forward to this documentary as Netflix doesn't seem to have many in this series for musicians/artists. Such a disappointment to watch a story about one of the greatest albums WITHOUT any of the songs! Snooze fest..
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
2017
Action / Documentary / Music
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond
2017
Action / Documentary / Music
Plot summary
Featuring interviews with former employees, fellow musicians, family members and journalists, and supported by original and exclusive never-seen-before footage, this star-studded rockumentary offers a fascinating insight into the creation and recording of one of the most ground-breaking and influential albums in pop history.
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April 29, 2020 at 05:08 PM
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Listening to the album 10 times in a row is a better use of your time
Horrible
This is one of those phony docs that cant get the rights to the music so they fill the time with news clips and interviews with old geezers you never heard of who now try to take the credit for making a classic album.
It's dismal and boring.
Cash-in talking heads
The 50th anniversary of the Sgt Pepper album sees this lengthy documentary appear. It centres on the album but gives background, dating back to the Jesus controversy, and follows on as far as the Maharishi and Epstein's death.
There is newsreel footage, mostly familiar, talking heads telling stories (stories mostly familiar, some of the talking heads less frequently exposed), and no Beatles music whatsoever. This is usually the case with projects not sanctioned by Apple, but it really diminishes them.
As a long term Beatles fan, I watch this sort of thing in the hope of picking up the odd titbit (Barbara Donnell's story of having to step over Derek Taylor mid-coitus on the floor of one of the Apple offices was new to me), or otherwise hearing the familiar stories told be fresh voices - Julia Baird, Andy Peebles, Jenny Boyd, Philip Norman etc.).
From that angle, there is some value to this. Otherwise there is little new here.