Pepper’s 40th a Non-Event For Surviving Beatles?
While magazine articles are written, tribute albums planned and concerts performed featuring its songs, it seems like the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, isn’t that big a deal for the two surviving Beatles.
Paul McCartney has reportedly decided not to mark the fortieth anniversary of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band with any particular significance. A source close to the singer believes the former Beatle is just too busy to contemplate an event to celebrate the occasion, which sees what is arguably the Beatles’ most famous record ever hit a landmark date.
While Ringo Starr has confessed that he prefers The Beatles’, ‘The White Album’ and ‘Revolver,’ over ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.’
Although Starr admitted that ‘Sgt. Pepper’ “served it’s purpose,†he has revealed that he prefers the other two albums. He said: “As a musician, I preferred ‘Revolver’, and I preferred ‘The White Album’, because we were back to being musicians. It was like everybody got the madness out on ‘Sgt. Pepper’, so it served that purpose.”
