I think that you’ll find that it was a canine, not an amphibian!
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Haha, didn’t even realise. Wonder if it’s because I was listening to Rory as I posted?
HEADLINE: Boomer discovers that Sgt. Peppers isn’t that bad an album after all!
Next you’ll be telling us you finally tried fish and chips and actually like it! 
(Just picking on you!)
Haha.
Up until that point all I’d heard of the Beatles was their early output, which I really didn’t like at all, and a cassette of them live at the Hollywood Bowl I got for Christmas one year, which was basically an hour of screaming girls drowning out the fab four. From that point on I basically dismissed them off hand.
Sgt Pepper was an eye opener (or ear opener) for me. They’re still a long way from being my favourite band, but I’m now very much a fan.
PS
I’d much rather a vindaloo than fish and chips …
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It’s the ending of Walrus (the King Lear quote) that’s changed for the worse IMO.
@Clive
Oh dear…I love that bit…I remember I used to turn up my old portable mono record player to catch the words…what have they done?
Listen to it - it’s so obvious you won’t miss it.
OK…I will later when I’m home
As a very little kid my parents bought me 45’s of She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand, etc. But truly my interest in the Beatles cemented with the later stuff – Rubber Soul, Revolver, The White Album, Sgt. Peppers, Abby Road, . . . etc.
The Rubber Soul - Revolver duo is interesting as you can really hear that transformation from the more bubble-gum pop sound (Baby You Can Drive My Car) to the drug/eastern religion, etc., influences in She Said and Tomorrow Never Knows, for example.
While Sgt. Pepper’s probably isn’t per se my fav Beatles’ album, “A Day in the Life” I’d have to say is my favorite single track overall.
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A day in the life was one of the first times I realised that song could tell a story in so much detail
‘And looking up I noticed I was late’ accompanied by the sound of breathing as if running.
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It’s a masterpiece and probably their high water mark, simply breathtaking.
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Isn’t it amazing that a band that broke up in 1970 can still generate this much debate and passion. Love it.
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The original title Lennon gave it was “Hey Bullfrog,” although I don’t know if it was ever recorded as such.
Sgt Pepper isn’t my favourite either but it was definitely the one that made me take notice of The Beatles and investigate their later work.
Rubber Soul is the earliest I can sit and really enjoy but it’s Abbey Road, Let It Be and The White Album that get played the most.
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I had never heard that. The never-less-than-fascinating book ‘Revolution In The Head’* ( by Ian MacDonald) does not mention that.
*(well worth getting, a Vintage paperback, if you like The Beatles)
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I have an original copy buried somewhere in boxes I love it, a great reference book. Did I read a few years ago he’d passed away?
Yes, very sadly, he committed suicide, after suffering from depression for many years.
You would have hoped that his obvious love for music would keep him away from doing such a desperate thing.
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That is sad, his book is as much to me as the music he wrote about. Thanks.