And what stopped this bloodshed? Why, the marching band sent into combat: Sgt. He tells a yarn of the Great War, WWI, in which the whole world united in trying to kill one another.
Maxwell on making an army of scouts/young fascists.įroemming: This movie begins with narration from the hippest, coolest man of the late 1970s: George Burns. So Froemming, why don’t you get this review started while I work with Dr. And there’s a lot of worst things about “Sgt. And that seemed like a slight against both the Beatles and cinema.īut as we’re about to get into, the Bee Gees are FAR from the worst thing in this movie. Now, the only thing I knew about this movie was that it starred the Bee Gees. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and “Across the Universe.” It probably doesn’t help when I remember nothing about “Across the Universe” other than Bono being the Walrus. Like when you had deja vu when we did “Judge Dredd,” because that and “Demolition Man” are awfully similar, I was doing that with “Sgt. Mustard, why don’t you give us your first thoughts?īrown: I felt like we did this movie already. So, obviously, this is the version Brown and I are most familiar with, as it spoke to a whole generation! Unlike that garbage from the Lads from Liverpool.īrown, as I hop in my creepy van and talk to my sex robots like Mr. When you heard the Beatles do ‘Long Tall Sally’ or ‘Roll Over Beethoven,’ did you care about Little Richard’s or Chuck Berry’s version?” When ours comes out, it will be, in effect, as if theirs never existed. They don’t exist as a band and never performed Sgt. You see, there is no such thing as the Beatles. Unfortunately, the Beatles will be secondary. And when those who do see our film and hear us doing it, that will be the version they relate to and remember. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”ĭon’t believe me? Well, here is Bee Gee Robin Gibb before the release of this movie:
This is the definitive version of their 1967 release: “Sgt. I am talking, of course, of the pop-culture juggernaut that was the Peter Frampton-Bee Gees team-up to give the world the definitive version of an album by some nobodies from England called the Beatles. (REDACTED) I spent a week watching and listening to this….Īnyway, this was a vanity project so full of hubris and cocaine, I am shocked anyone in the making of it lived to tell the tale.
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