It was 45 years ago today...

[rustyg61]

Oh, I think you can keep your head above water just fine! You can hold your own with the best of them!

[lbpesq]

Bradley wrote: Wait, wouldn't it be 65 years ago, then?
 
Actually it would be more.  As we all know,  Sgt.Pepper taught the band to play 20 years before the album came out. One must assume that the good Sgt. was not a newborn when he gave the guys music lessons.  So if he was even only 20 years old when he taught the band to play, that would make him at least 85 today!
 
Bill, tgo

[Bradley Young]

Bill,
 
Considering the relative dates, he'd have probably made Sergeant during WWII; it's unlikely that he'd have made Sergeant in less than 1 year at age 19-- so he is probably at least 86.
 
Bradley

[bigredbass]

So this thread was running around my head to day and I'm flipping through the movie channels, and wow, here's '2001', that great Sphinx of a movie.
 
And it reminded me of another huge impact not long after Sgt Pepper's:  I shall always think that those transit sequences from Earth to the Space Station, and then on to the moon, set to 'The Blue Danube' as the greatest match of music to film I'll ever see.  I was watching it on the big screen, but remembering it when I saw the original theatre run, with that music and the images on a billboard-sized screen were incredibly moving for me.  WWaaayyyy more than the 'light show' towards the end.  The Shirl did wonder why I had the TV up that loud today, though . . . .
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpvOUnz4T7Q
 
J o e y

[jzstephan]

June 1967: Are You Experienced? released in Europe.
Forever changing the way electric guitar sounds, it would be two months before its release in the USA.

[notfadeaway]

I play in a Hendrix/SRV cover band.  This one is near and dear to my heart.