Sgt Pepper Recreated

idlesupernova

Oasis, The Killers to record new version of 'Sgt Pepper'
The Beatles classic gets a 40th anniversary makeover
4 hours ago
Oasis, The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs are to cover songs from The Beatles' 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' to mark the 40th anniversary of the classic album's release.

The original album was released on June 1, 1967 and to mark the event the big names will all be covering tracks from the record for a BBC2 special to be aired on June 2.

Razorlight, James Morrison, The Fratellis and Travis are among the other acts taking part.

The BBC reports that Geoff Emerick, the engineer in charge of the original sessions will use the same equipment to record the new versions.

Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas said: "This will be not only a unique radio event, but a very special musical moment.

"The range and quality of artists involved ensure that this will be a fitting tribute to one of the great albums of all time."

There is no news yet on which track the artists concerned will cover.

Sinfonia

That sounds ****in awful imo

quarryman

noooooooooooooooooooooo

Goodshape

Lol.

It's a good thing I ****ing love The Beatles, because it doesn't look like their ever going to stop milking that cash-cow.

I'll reserve judgement on this until I hear it anyway. I had strong reservations about 'Love' before that was released, and it's now easily the first album I reach for when I'm in the Bealtes mood.

idlesupernova

Noel Gallagher can pull off a great Beatles cover, this 'All you need is love' is one of my fave covers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHmMODKa6Mg


Strawberry Fields

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPHeWGlCp2s

Goodshape

idlesupernova wrote:

Noel Gallagher can pull off a great Beatles cover, this 'All you need is love' is one of my fave covers

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jHmMODKa6Mg


Strawberry Fields

http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPHeWGlCp2s

I don't know about that.

His lazy apathetic sounding vocals don't really lend themselves to the material imo.

idlesupernova

Goodshape wrote:

I don't know about that.

His lazy apathetic sounding vocals don't really lend themselves to the material imo.

Oasis nut here so Il stick to my original comment:D

Creamy Goodness

ohh jesus.

csk

The Kaiser Chiefs covering the Beatles? how can that be a good thing?
It's going to be an awful butchers job on some classic songs imo

Creamy Goodness

how can any of those bands covering the beatles be a good thing.

although i can see the kaiser chiefs doing,

LUCY LUCY LUCY aahhh ahhh hhaaa haaah ahhh in the sky with diamonds.

ugh at shudders down my spine.

Sinfonia

Love was the Beatles, remixed by the Martins, this doesn't warrant judgement to be reserved


Oasis
The Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
Razorlight
James Morrison
The Fratellis
Travis

**** that ****ing bull****
****ing awful imo that they would even attempt to cover that album, leave it alone.
all they're missing is Snow Patrol and the Kooks for the most irritating line up in the world....ever!

John

This is hilariously bad!

Kold

The Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
Razorlight


Worst bands ever?

sceptre

This has already been done with Revolver and Rubber Soul so the idea of covering a Beatles album in its entirety by a shower of singers with nothing better to do over the holidays is nothing new. As long as it sounds better than the collective cover of Carol King's Tapestry album I don't really care. Might even be good.

Goodshape

sceptre wrote:

This has already been done with Revolver and Rubber Soul

Was it? By who?

misty floyd

I feel sick, this can't happen. What is wrong with these 'artists' that think they can put some kind of interesting slant on already interesting music. Really annoys me.

Karlusss

This looks like absolute ****e.

Like someone decided to choose the most derivative ****e they could find in the CD section of Tesco and get them to cover Beatles songs.

Could've been good. I'm sure there are fantastic bands and artists around who would have loved to do this.

Joanna Newsom on Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds... Polyphonic Spree on Sgt Pepper's?

JLemmon

Someone should take court action against this sort of crap

Can you hear that sound??
Like a tunneling machine!!!
It's Lennon and Harrison Spinning in their graves!

Miguel_Sanchez

Kold wrote:

The Killers
Kaiser Chiefs
Razorlight


Worst bands ever?

Yes.

mada999

Really looking forward to this actually....

I love hearing Beatles covers....(good or bad)

There are a good few on the sound track to the film "I am Sam"...some quality ones done!

Anyone got a list of Beatles covers ? I'm trying to get as many as I can!!

goodfela

Disgraceful. It will be ****.

JLemmon

mada999 wrote:

Really looking forward to this actually....

I love hearing Beatles covers....(good or bad)

There are a good few on the sound track to the film "I am Sam"...some quality ones done!

Anyone got a list of Beatles covers ? I'm trying to get as many as I can!!

There's a website that collects info about cover versions
like an archive it's pretty good should give you a list of all teh versions you want

JLemmon

Found it

http://www.coversproject.com/

Schlemm

Mediocracy and moneymaking have merged to create this soup of horrors, I will be plugging my ears in the meantime and hoping that Girls Aloud or somesuch won't jump on this bandwagon whilst it's still hot.

Beekay

oh god no:mad: :mad:

mada999

Cheers for that web site man!

Will look for some of them tunes soon!

We can work it out (Stevie Wonder) - Quality!

magpie

Jesus, the Kaiser Chiefs?

"woooooooooWOOOOOOWOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHH.... we're sargeant pepper's lonely hearts club band......"

Someone put those turdbags out of their misery.

Alter-Ego

I'm not the biggest beatles fan but this is not good for music. Surely they could be a bit more imaginative with their choice of artists.

I suppose razorlight doing this will give johnny borell a chance to climb further up his own ass.