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Release Date: 1978 Cast: Connie Stevens, Steve Martin, Barry Gibb, Dianne Steinberg, Max Showalter, Gwen Verdon, Peter Frampton, Paul Nicholas, Frankie Howerd, Billy Preston, Maurice Gibb, Margaret Whiting ...MORE
Cast: Connie Stevens, Steve Martin, Barry Gibb, Dianne Steinberg, Max Showalter, Gwen Verdon, Peter Frampton, Paul Nicholas, Frankie Howerd, Billy Preston, Maurice Gibb, Margaret Whiting, Sandy Farina, Carol Channing, Robin Gibb, Donald Pleasence, George Burns ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Comedy, Musical, Adventure, Indie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American jukebox musical film. Its soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by The Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of their albums, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1969's Abbey Road.
The production is somewhat adapted from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road, a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom O'Horgan. It tells the loosely-constructed story of a band as they wrangle with the music industry and battle evil forces... MORE
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a 1978 American jukebox musical film. Its soundtrack, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, features new versions of songs originally written and performed by The Beatles. The film draws primarily from two of their albums, 1967's Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and 1969's Abbey Road.
The production is somewhat adapted from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road, a 1974 off-Broadway production directed by Tom O'Horgan. It tells the loosely-constructed story of a band as they wrangle with the music industry and battle evil forces bent on stealing their instruments and corrupting their home town of Heartland. The film is presented in a form similar to that of a rock opera with the Beatles' songs providing "dialogue" to carry the story, with only George Burns having spoken lines that act to clarify the plot and provide further narration.
The film was produced by Robert Stigwood, founder of RSO Records, who had earlier produced Saturday Night Fever. RSO Records also released the soundtrack to the film Grease in 1978, which had Barry Gibb producing and Peter Frampton playing lead guitar on the title track. In 1976, the Bee Gees LESS
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