Showing posts with label Sgt Pepper movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sgt Pepper movie. Show all posts

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Sgt. Pepper movie bubble gum cards (1978)


You can view the entire 66 card series from Donruss here. The following cards are from the my personal archives; I evidently just bought the one pack. The brittle stick of gum isn't still around, but knowing me, I promptly ate it back in 1978.


Pros: I got cards with Billy Preston and the Future Villains (sans Aerosmith)
Cons: I got cards depicting the funeral procession for Strawberry Fields and Sgt. Pepper's heart attack. You know, for kids.

When placed in the correct order, the back of the cards formed some sort of picture, but I've been unable to find a photo or scan of that complete mosaic and I'm not looking to purchase the rest of the set, so I'll leave it alone.







Movie review the August 24, 1978 edition of Rolling Stone:

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If you'd like to read the RS review of the soundtrack, it is transcribed here.  Robert Christgau gave it a D+, allmusic gave it just ★, but the most thorough panning comes over at The Worst Albums Ever blog.  You can love to hate it all you want, but how can it be all bad when it gave us Earth, Wind, & Fire's version of "Got to Get You Into My Life"" which remains one of the best Beatles covers of all time.

And before you ask, yes, I had the paperback novelization of the movie as well.  Alas, my well-worn copy of that book has gone on to the landfill that great library in the sky.

Friday, February 13, 2015

Yet another insert in the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack album (1978)


If you had this soundtrack on 8-track, you really missed out.  The 2 LP set came with this 22" x 33" poster featuring a drawing of the Lonely Hearts Club Band riding/lounging/posing on an oversized tuba-ish instrument with strawberries in its bell.  LHCB in the sky with berries.
 




Soundtrack ad from the August 24, 1978 edition of Rolling Stone:


Monday, February 9, 2015

Ad insert in the Sgt. Pepper soundtrack album (1978)

Mail order form from the 2 LP soundtrack of the 1978 movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band featuring Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees.*



*The author will neither confirm nor deny ownership of this double album set.