"Seargent Pepper" Beatles album

"Seargent Pepper" Beatles album

Concept album

• Loneliness
• Segue between songs
• Characters
• Audience sounds

Background

• Album went on tour rather than band
• Recorded in 1966
• Abbey Road studios
• Album to experiment with more complex and interesting elements

Instrumentation

• Vocals
• Strings in "She's Leaving Home" - classical
• Indian influences - sitar, sarangi, tabla, tambura
• Bass guitar
• Vintage organ in instrumental section in "Benefit of Mr.Kite"

Structure

• Quite complex
• As if 3 separate songs in "A Day In the Life"
• Some simple
• Refrains
• Bridges
• "Within You, WIthout You" - Alap, Jhor and Jhala - Indian influence

Technology

• ADT - Automatic Double Tracking…