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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today... Sgt Pepper and Beyond
Description
A documentation of the influences that went on to help create the seminal album, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
A documentation of the influences that went on to help create the seminal album, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
Actors:
Ray Connolly,
Tony Crane,
John Lennon,
Andy Peebles,
Freda Kelly,
Barbara ODonnell,
Twiggy
Ray Connolly
Tony Crane
John Lennon
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Andy Peebles
Freda Kelly
Barbara ODonnell
Twiggy
19 September 1949, Neasden, England, UK
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Alan G. Parker
Alan G. Parker
Country:
United Kingdom
Keywords:
#Alan G. Parker #Andre Barreau #Bill Harry #Hunter Davies #It Was Fifty Years Ago Today... Sgt Pepper and Beyond #It Was Fifty Years Ago Today... Sgt Pepper and Beyond (2017) #Jenny Boyd #Julia Baird #Neil Harrison #Pete Best #Ray Connolly #Steve Diggle #Tony Bramwell #Tony Crane
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May 25, 2017
Alan G Parker's film is an overlong, tedious parade of familiar talking heads (Hunter Davies, Pete Best) trotting out familiar anecdotes and, significantly for a film about an album, there's not a note of Beatles music.
May 25, 2017
There isn't a single note of the actual album to be heard, nor any images of the record itself and its famed cover art.
May 26, 2017
It's not easy to make a documentary about the greatest album in history when you don't have access to a single note of the music, but this documentary forges on and cashes in regardless ...
May 16, 2017
Even blessed with such a rich subject and vast reserves of archive footage, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! still has the threadbare feel of an unauthorized cash-in.
May 26, 2017
This is the most frustrating film. It's probably no fault of the makers, but it's rare to have to assess a documentary for what it doesn't have.
May 26, 2017
With a two-hour bombardment of talking heads of varying relevance, Parker tries gamely, but fails resoundingly, to overcome his documentary's glaring paradox - that it's a film about music containing no music.
May 22, 2017
What's the point in making a documentary about a classic album if you don't have the rights to any of the music?
