Oasis, The Killers to record new version of 'Sgt Pepper'

[shawmut]

04/06/2007 1:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
courtesy of NME.com

Oasis, the Killers, and Kaiser Chiefs are to cover songs from the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band to mark the 40th anniversary of the classic album's release.

The original album was released on June 1, 1967, and to mark the event the big names will all be covering tracks from the record for a BBC2 special to be aired in the U.K. on June 2.

Razorlight, James Morrison, the Fratellis, and Travis are among the other acts taking part.

The BBC reports that Geoff Emerick, the engineer in charge of the original sessions, will use the same equipment to record the new versions.

Radio 2 controller Lesley Douglas said: "This will be not only a unique radio event, but a very special musical moment. The range and quality of artists involved ensure that this will be a fitting tribute to one of the great albums of all time."


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[jpgray]

1. And it's going to be worse.

[flamingyouth]

6. It almost makes me long for Peter Frampton.

Almost.

[NightWatcher]

2. Who do you want to sing what???

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life

I'd like to hear the Killers sing the title track. Oasis can sing anything because they sound a lot like the Beatles

[AllegroRondo]

3. Can they get George Burns to sing "Fixing a Hole"?

oh, wait, he already did that on that OTHER Sgt Pepper album.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. I like the Killers.

:shrug:

[HEyHEY]

5. So, the guys who wish they were Joy Division and the guys that wish they were the beatles....

Are going to get together for an album the rest of us wish wasn't made?

Fuck.

[GirlinContempt]

14. Joy Division?

If that's their wish, someone should let them know they sound more like anyone who isn't joy division.

[HEyHEY]

17. Come on! Listen to "Smile liek you mean it" and tell me that!

[GirlinContempt]

26. Ok. I still say that.

[Little Wing]

7. So, it's Sgt. Pepper where every song ends up in a catatonic cacophonic catastrofuck

[GumboYaYa]

8. What a shame, I like the Killers, but this will be the end of them.

They are violating the first rule of rock; don't f$%#K with the Beatles.

[underpants]

9. Score one for the Bodeans

ROCK N ROLL

[Tektonik]

10. should be interesting

looking forward to it, though i wish both bands would release new material than rehash the Beatles

[Elidor]

11. Sgt. Gallagher's Homely Farts Club?

The sheer suckitude of this record is going to be off the scales. It will be the new benchmark against which suckitude is measured.

[Fenris]

12. What happened to you England?

You used to be awesome. Think of all of the bands that you have produced. Think of all of the wonderful musical movements that started there. You provided 3 decades of glorious music.

And then your economy picked up in the 1990s and you started exporting shit like EMF, Oasis, and the Spice Girls. You teased with an endless crop of bands your media hyped as the New Beatles. You promised us you still rocked. And yet, the music said otherwise.

Now your "best and brightest" are reduced to covering an album that should never be covered by anyone, ever, because over half the brilliance of it was in its complex production. Shame on you!

Go back to socialism, England. For the music.

[tigereye]

19. what he said

:thumbsup:

[Mad_Dem_X]

13. Nononononononono

FUCKING NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[Radical Activist]

15. Calling all British bands mooching off the Beatles sound!

Oh wait, there isn't a concert hall in England big enough to fit them all.

[anarch]

16. well that's just great

Hey guys, you know why the Beatles recorded Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?

SO YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO!

[asthmaticeog]

18. Oh goody, more crap. And "Sgt. Pepper Knew My Father" remains totally unfindable.

http://www.discogs.com/release/501843

Sonic Youth's version of "Within You Without You" is mindmelting psych-noise to die - no, to LIVE for. But I'm sure a track from Travis will be just as good. :eyes:

[tigereye]

20. the agent who thought up this gem should be taken out and fed tripe

or something else equally vile.

[asthmaticeog]

21. Kimchee AND tripe.

With Liam Gallagher ballsauce. x(

[tigereye]

22. that's disgusting, asth

how are ya?

[asthmaticeog]

23. No less disgusting than this album will be. ;)

I've been OK. Gearing up to go out for a friend's band's CD release party. You'd probably dig 'em, actually. If you're feelin' like doin' some listenin', you can stream their new disc here: http://www.fanaticpromotion.com/ecards/machinegoboom/

[tigereye]

24. cool. Thanks

I am somewhat in need of some new stuff to check out.

I was just gonna ask you why you were home on a Friday night, like we old boring married people!

;)

[asthmaticeog]

25. Anytime.

And it doesn't start until 10. :P