there is no god

[rone]

I'm still reeling from the revelation, via my sister-in-law's boyfriend last night, that the Bee Gees made a "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie that included Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, Earth Wind and Fire, and Alice Cooper (all of whom are also on the soundtrack), as well as Steve Martin and Donald Pleasence.

What the fuck?  What the fucking fuck?

Comments

[rbarclay.livejournal.com]

What the freaking fuck?!?

[ptomblin-lj.livejournal.com]

Feckless youth! I remember when it was in the theatres. It wasn't there for long.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

That's old news. I remember when it came out. In fact, I had the album.

[anavolena.livejournal.com]

you truly are blessed if you only just discovered that fact. i think i saw the movie before i ever even heard of the beatles album, so it was all ruined for me.

[therobbergirl.livejournal.com]

When I was in junior high, we kept daring each other to sneak into a theater and see it.

ah, furrenners...

[lara7.livejournal.com]

one of the many things you missed by not growing up in this country. The simple anwser is that the Bee gees needed a new project after "saturday night fever", "grease", released the same year,had been a success and made the idea of movie musicals viable again. The record label (RSO) responsible for Grease and the SNF soundtracks also released the SPLHCB soundtrack, which probably did way better than the film itself (the aerosmith version of "come together" got a fair amount of radio play back in the day.

Other heinous musicals from the period: xanadu(1980), Can't stop the music (1980), Pennies from heaven (1981), which isn't so bad but is depressing as hell and not what America wanted from a Steve Martin movie after "the Jerk".

poor rone

[avocado123.livejournal.com]

I'm deeply jealous that you lived this much of your life in blissful ignorance of the remake of "Sgt Pepper". Treasure those years, my friend. But surely the movie was mentioned several times on that wacky Usenet place...

"Can't Stop the Music" is K*bo's favorite movie, but I admit I've only seen about 25 minutes of it.

"Pennies from Heaven" is a fabulous movie. One of my favorites, especially the scene with the movie's theme song. It's depressing, raw, emotional and in your face. Lara7's right, no one wanted to see Steve Martin doing this kind of movie in 1981, but in retrospect, after things like "Novocaine", it's not surprising anymore. I recommend it. No, I demand it.

Re: poor rone

[bryant]

Pennies from Heaven hits DVD on... oh hey, a couple of weeks ago. Christopher Walken's in it too. I have been jonesing to see this for years and years.

The original Brit version is also available; some say it's better and I do like Bob Hoskins, but... Steve Martin! Christopher Walken! Bernadette Peters!

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

I've heard the soundtrack, on vinyl. I have some vague recollection of the Aerosmith and Alice Cooper tracks being passable.

I heard it back in high school. In fact, if memory serves, it was twenty years ago today.

[merde.livejournal.com]

dear god. i watched that on TV when i was a kid and it scarred me for life.

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too. I remember: during the scene with strawberry fields and the guy on the rotating bed, my mom yelled from the kitchen 'What are they doing?' (in the movie) and my dad shouted back, "Coupla damn hippies screwin'." I was like 'wtf?' and then mom came in and turned it off.

Ron, at this late date shouldn't you just come to terms with your deep and abiding ignorance and poor taste vis-a-vis American popular music?

[peglegpete.livejournal.com]

Ron, at this late date shouldn't you just come to terms with your deep and abiding ignorance and poor taste vis-a-vis American popular music?

Hush! It's much more enjoyable to watch him writhe in anguish.

[palecur.livejournal.com]

This from someone who voluntarily listens to Steely Dan.

Then again, it's addressed to someone who voluntarily listens to King Crimson, so a pox on both your houses.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, go back to your idol Avril Lavigne, buddy.

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah?
[my favorite generally unpopular band] is better than [your favorite generally unpopular band] because it's not quite as unpopular, and furthermore, I like them more, and their drummer didn't [do stupid thing leading directly to his own death].

So there.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Huh? I thought the drummer's untimely demise was a mechanism for increasing the coolness of [generally unpopular band].

Or maybe that's just me.

[nothings.livejournal.com]

Cry!

(listens to both)

[deirdremoon.livejournal.com]

I'll pretend, for the sake of my Steely-Crimson-listenin' boy, that I didn't hear that.

And that's a great icon. PVP (and specifically Brent) rule.

[alfvaen]

I may be one of about twelve people on the planet who thought that the "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" movie was a hoot. And yes, I still like the Beatles, and even the original "Sgt. Pepper's" album...but the movie was fun, seriously.

[rjray.livejournal.com]

Awwww... come on! How can you resist George Burns singing along to "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite"? Or that heart-touching rendition of "When I'm Sixty-Four"?

Uncultured swine.

[crankysysadmin.livejournal.com]

nngghh... I certainly remember this movie. It confused the hell out of me at a time when I didn't really know the Beatles. I couldn't get it straight -- are the Bee Gees affiliated with the Beatles? (! I know) Are the Beatles in this movie?

Later, it hurt. A lot.

[samantha2074.livejournal.com]

George Burns seemed far too frail at that point to be tap dancing. I kept worrying about him keeling over. Somehow I missed the scene with Steve Martin, which I'm told is the best part of the movie.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

Short answer: It was the 70's and drugs and disco were rampant.

[mrbalihai.livejournal.com]

And a Fuckity, Fuck, Fuck, Fuck.

This film was but one cinematic coke-fueled mental fart among many that snuck out from between the flaccid brain-cheeks of Robert Stigwood in the 1970s. He is also responsible for producing such drivel as Tommy,
Moment by Moment, and Grease 2. However, he gets one point for producing Jesus Christ Superstar, a movie that I sort of liked back in the day.

I remember seeing it

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

on network TV, but I don't remember Steve Martin or Donald Pleasance. I must have mercifully fallen asleep.

Also

[vardissakheli.livejournal.com]

the movie I really wish I could see is All This & World War II. I hunted down the soundtrack album (back when it was still $4 in cutout bins and not a hundred bucks in collector's shops) for one song, Peter Gabriel doing "Strawberry Fields Forever." Turned out it's just OK and most of the rest of the soundtrack is boring or worse, but I absolutely love Frankie Valli's rendition of "A Day in the Life."

[gailg.livejournal.com]

I was seriously into the Beatles at the time, so to me it was a tribute. I never thought it was a particularly good movie, but I liked certain things about it.

But I bet I can beat everyone here who did see it: I read the book before the movie was released. Yes. There was a book.

So there! Proof that I'm more of a Beatles nerd than anyone here.