When I heard the track, driving home with groceries in the back seat, it took me by surprise. I wanted to pull the car over.... turn up the volume, sit back, close my eyes and soak it in....It blew me away.
The song was one we've all heard a million times... "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles. But this was from the new Beatles "
Love" album released in 2006.The song was one we've all heard a million times... "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles. But this was from the new Beatles "
I didn't know it until later when I researched it online, but "Love" is a controversial album that's a compilation and remix of actual Beatle recordings for Cirque du Soleil's production honoring The Beatles.
The album was produced by former Beatles manager George Martin and his son Giles who tells us... "What people will be hearing on the album is a new experience, a way of re-living the whole Beatles musical life span in a very condensed period."
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have both responded with enthusiasm for "Love". Paul commented that "This album puts The Beatles back together again..."
The ending of Sgt. Pepper on the album is incredible, beyond description... the familiar strains we know and love are woven together into this mounting, cascading, monumental explosion of horns, voices, drums, strings and so much more. It's the Beatles encapsulated into an explosion that keeps mushrooming, blossoming, growing. It becomes a sound so large, so infinite that it truly seems to embrace the universe.
I know... I know... it's almost a sacrilege to tamper with the Beatles. But please, hold your judgement until you hear it... it's PURE Beatles, every note. Every single sound on the album came from actual Beatles recordings.
It gave me chills... "Love" is a powerful, masterful, respectful tribute that does justice to some of the finest music ever written...
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