Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles

Vinyl L.P · Mono · Parlophone Records · PMC 7027.
1967 · U.K.

Back cover.

Inner gatefold.

Labels.

Cut-outs · Card insert.



The Beatles:

John Lennon: Lead, harmony and background vocals; rhythm, acoustic and lead guitars; Hammond organ, final piano E chord; harmonica, tape loops, sound effects, comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine, maracas, bass guitar (Fixing a Hole).

Paul McCartney: Lead, harmony and background vocals; bass and lead guitars; piano, grand piano, Lowrey and Hammond organs; handclaps; vocalisations, sound effects, comb and tissue paper.

George Harrison: Harmony and background vocals; lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars; sitar, tambura, swarmandal; harmonica, comb and tissue paper; handclaps, tambourine, maracas; lead vocals (Within You Without You).

Ringo Starr: Drums, congas, tambourine, maracas, handclaps, tubular bells; lead vocals (With a Little Help from My Friends); harmonica, comb and tissue paper; final piano E chord.

Other musicians:

George Martin: Tape loops, sound effects; harpsichord (Fixing a Hole), harmonium, Lowrey organ, glockenspiel and Mellotron (Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!), Hammond organ (With a Little Help from My Friends), piano (Getting Better), piano solo (Lovely Rita); final harmonium chord.

Mal Evans: Counting, harmonica, alarm clock, final piano E chord.

Neil Aspinall: Tambura, harmonica.

Geoff Emerick: Tape loops, sound effects.

Sounds Inc: Saxophones, trombones and French horn (Good Morning Good Morning).

Session musicians: Four French horns (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band): Neill Sanders, James W. Buck, John Burden, Tony Randall, arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; harp, performed by Sheila Bromberg, and string section (She's Leaving Home), arranged by Mike Leander and conducted by Martin; tabla by Natwar Soni, dilrubas by Anna Joshi and Amrit Gajjar, and tambura by Buddhadev Kansara (Within You Without You), with eight violins and four cellos arranged and conducted by Harrison and Martin; clarinet trio (When I'm Sixty-Four): Robert Burns, Henry MacKenzie, Frank Reidy, arranged and conducted by Martin and McCartney; saxophones (Good Morning Good Morning), arranged and conducted by Martin and Lennon; and forty-piece orchestra, including strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion (A Day in the Life), arranged by Martin, Lennon and McCartney, and conducted by Martin and McCartney.

Credits:

Producer, mixer: George Martin.

Engineer: Geoff Emerick.

Recorded: 6 December 1966 – 21 April 1967.

Studio: EMI and Regent Sound, London, U.K.

Released: 26 May 1967.

Lyrics:

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band.

(Lennon-McCartney)

It was twenty years ago today, 

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play 

They've been going in and out of style 

But they're guaranteed to raise a smile. 

So may I introduce to you 

The act you've known for all these years, 

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 

We hope you will enjoy the show, 

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, 

Sit back and let the evening go. 

Sgt. Pepper's lonely, Sgt. Pepper's lonely, 

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

It's wonderful to be here, 

It's certainly a thrill. 

You're such a lovely audience, 

We'd like to take you home with us, 

We'd love to take you home. 

I don't really want to stop the show, 

But I thought that you might like to know, 

That the singer's going to sing a song, 

And he wants you all to sing along. 

So let me introduce to you 

The one and only Billy Shears 

And Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. 

Billy Shears.

With A Little Help From My Friends.

(Lennon-McCartney)

What would you think if I sang out of tune, 

Would you stand up and walk out on me. 

Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song, 

And I'll try not to sing out of key. 

I get by with a little help from my friends, 

I get high with a little help from my friends, 

Going to try with a little help from my friends. 

What do I do when my love is away. 

(Does it worry you to be alone) 

How do I feel by the end of the day 

(Are you sad because you're on your own) 

No I get by with a little help from my friends... 

Do you need anybody, 

I need somebody to love. 

Could it be anybody 

I want somebody to love. 

Would you believe in a love at first sight, 

Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time. 

What do you see when you turn out the light, 

I can't tell you, but I know it's mine. 

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends... 

Do you need anybody, 

I just need somebody to love, 

Could it be anybody, 

I want somebody to love. 

I get by with a little help from my friends, 

Yes I get by with a little help from my friends, 

With a little help from my friends.

Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

(Lennon-McCartney)

Picture yourself in a boat on a river, 

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies 

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly, 

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes. 

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green, 

Towering over your head. 

Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes, 

And she's gone. 

Lucy in the sky with diamonds... 

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain 

Where rocking horse people eat marshmellow pies, 

Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers, 

That grow so incredibly high. 

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore, 

Waiting to take you away. 

Climb in the back with your head in the clouds, 

And you're gone. 

Lucy in the sky with diamonds... 

Picture yourself on a train in a station, 

With plasticine porters with looking glass ties, 

Suddenly someone is there at the turnstyle, 

The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes. 

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds...

Getting Better.

(Lennon-McCartney)

It's getting better all the time 

I used to get mad at my school 

The teachers who taught me weren't cool 

You're holding me down, turning me round 

Filling me up with your rules. 

I've got to admit it's getting better 

A little better all the time 

I have to admit it's getting better 

It's getting better since you've been mine. 

Me used to be a angry young man 

Me hiding me head in the sand 

You gave me the word 

I finally heard 

I'm doing the best that I can. 

I've got to admit it's getting better 

I used to be cruel to my woman 

I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved 

Man I was mean but I'm changing my scene 

And I'm doing the best that I can. 

I admit it's getting better 

A little better all the time 

Yes I admit it's getting better 

It's getting better since you've been mine.

Fixing A Hole.

(Lennon-McCartney)

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in 

And stops my mind from wandering 

Where will it go 

I'm filling the cracks that ran through the door 

And kept my mind from wandering 

Where will it go 

And it really doesn't matter if I'm wrong 

I'm right 

Where I belong I'm right 

Where I belong. 

See the people standing there who disagree and never win 

And wonder why they don't get in my door. 

I'm painting my room in the colourful way 

And when my mind is wandering 

There I will go. 

And it really doesn't matter if 

I'm wrong I'm right 

Where I belong I'm right 

Where I belong. 

Silly people run around they worry me 

And never ask me why they don't get past my door. 

I'm taking the time for a number of things 

That weren't important yesterday 

And I still go. 

I'm fixing a hole where the rain gets in 

And stops my mind from wandering 

Where it will go.

She's Leaving Home.

(Lennon-McCartney)

Wednesday morning at five o'clock as the day begings 

Silently closing her bedroom door 

Leaving the note that she hoped would say more 

She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her hankerchief 

Quietly turing the backdoor key 

Stepping outside she is free. 

She (We gave her most of our lives) 

is leaving (Sacraficed most of our lives) 

home (We gave her everything money could buy) 

She's leaving home after living alone 

For so many years. Bye, bye.

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown 

Picks up the letter that's lying there 

Standing alone at the top of the stairs 

She breaks down and cries to her husband 

Daddy our baby's gone. 

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly 

How could she do this to me. 

She (We never though of ourselves) 

Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves) 

home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by) 

She's leaving home after living alone 

For so many years (Bye, bye).

Friday morning at nine o'clock she is far away 

Waiting to keep the appointment she made 

Meeting a man from the motor trade. 

She (What did we do that was wrong) 

Is having (We didn't know it was wrong) 

Fun (Fun is the one thing that money can't buy) 

Something inside that was always denied 

For so many years (Bye, Bye) 

She's leaving home (Bye bye).

Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!

(Lennon-McCartney)

For the benefit of Mr. Kite 

There will be a show tonight on trampoline 

The Hendersons will all be there 

Late of Pablo Fanques Fair-what a scene 

Over men and horses hoops and garters 

Lastly through a hogshead of real fire! 

In this way Mr. K. will challenge the world! 

The celebrated Mr. K. 

Performs his feat on Saturday at Bishopsgate 

The Hendersons will dance and sing 

As Mr. Kite flys through the ring don't be late 

Messrs. K and H. assure the public 

Their production will be second to none 

And of course Henry The Horse dances the waltz! 

The band begins at ten to six 

When Mr. K. performs his tricks without a sound 

And Mr. H. will demonstrate 

Ten summersets he'll undertake on solid ground 

Having been some days in preparation 

A splendid time is guaranteed for all 

And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill.

Within You Without You.

(Harrison)

We were talking-about the space between us all 

And the people-who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion 

Never glimpse the truth-then it's far too late-when they pass away. 

We were talking-about the love we all could share-when we find it 

To try our best to hold it there-with our love 

With our love-we could save the world-if they only knew. 

Try to realise it's all within yourself 

No-one else can make you change 

And to see you're really only very small, 

And life flows within you and without you. 

We were talking-about the love that's gone so cold and the people, 

Who gain the world and lose their soul- 

They don't know-they can't see-are you one of them? 

When you've seen beyond yourself-then you may find, peace of mind, 

Is waiting there- 

And the time will come when you see 

we're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

When I'm Sixty-Four.

(Lennon-McCartney)

When I get older losing my hair, 

Many years from now. 

Will you still be sending me a valentine 

Birthday greetings bottle of wine. 

If I'd been out till quarter to three 

Would you lock the door, 

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, 

When I'm sixty-four. 

You'll be older too, 

And it you say the word, 

I could stay with you. 

I could be handy, mending a fuse 

When your lights have gone. 

You can knit a sweater by the fireside 

Sunday mornings go for a ride, 

Doing the garden, digging the weeds, 

Who could ask for more. 

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, 

When I'm sixty-four. 

Every summer we can rent a cottage, 

In the Isle of Wight, if it's not too dear 

We shall scrimp and save 

Grandchildren on your knee 

Vera Chuck & Dave. 

Send me a postcard, drop me a line, 

Stating point of view 

Indicate precisely what you mean to say 

Yours sincerely, wasting away 

Give me your answer, fill in a form 

Mine for evermore 

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, 

When I'm sixty-four.

Lovely Rita.

(Lennon-McCartney)

Lovely Rita meter maid, lovely Rita meter maid. 

Lovely Rita meter maid. 

Nothing can come between us, 

When it gets dark I tow your heart away. 

Standing by a parking meter, 

When I caught a glimpse of Rita, 

Filling in a ticket in her little white book. 

In a cap she looked much older, 

And the bag across her shoulder 

Made her look a little like a military man. 

Lovely Rita meter maid, 

May I inquire discreetly, 

When are you free, 

To take some tea with me. 

Took her out and tried to win her, 

Had a laugh and over dinner, 

Told her I would really like to see her again, 

Got the bill and Rita paid it, 

Took her home I nearly made it, 

Sitting on the sofa with a sister or two. 

Oh, lovely Rita meter maid, 

Where would I be without you, 

Give us a wink and make me think of you.

Good Morning Good Morning.

(Lennon-McCartney)

Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in 

Nothing to say but what a day how's your boy been 

Nothing to do it's up to you 

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K. 

Good morning, good morning... 

Going to work don't want to go feeling low down 

Heading for home you start to roam then you're in town 

Everybody knows there's nothing doing 

Everything is closed it's like a ruin 

Everyone you see is half asleep. 

And you're on your own you're in the street 

Good morning, good morning... 

After a while you start to smile now you feel cool. 

Then you decide to take a walk by the old school. 

Nothing has changed it's still the same 

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K. 

Good morning, good morning... 

People running round it's five o'clock. 

Everywhere in town is getting dark. 

Everyone you see is full of life. 

It's time for tea and meet the wife. 

Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I'm here. 

Watching the skirts you start to flirt now you're in gear. 

Go to a show you hope she goes. 

I've got nothing to say but it's O.K. 

Good morning, good morning...

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Reprise).

(Lennon-McCartney)

We're Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

We hope you have enjoyed the show 

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

We're sorry but it's time to go. 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely. 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely. 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely. 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely. 

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 

We'd like to thank you once again 

Sergeant Pepper's one and only Lonely Hearts Club Band 

It's getting very near the end 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely 

Sergeant Pepper's lonely 

Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

A Day In The Life.

(Lennon-McCartney)

I read the news today oh boy

About a lucky man who made the grade

And though the news was rather sad

Well I just had to laugh

I saw the photograph.

He blew his mind out in a car

He didn't notice that the lights had changed

A crowd of people stood and stared

They'd seen his face before

Nobody was really sure

If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy

The English Army had just won the war

A crowd of people turned away

But I just had to look

Having read the book.

I'd love to turn you on. 

Woke up, fell out of bed,

Dragged a comb across my head

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,

And looking up I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat

Made the bus in seconds flat

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,

And somebody spoke and I went into a dream. 

I read the news today oh boy

Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

And though the holes were rather small

They had to count them all

Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I'd love to turn you on...

Promo:

Sgt PEPPERS LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND
NEW BEATLES LP HERE NOW
EMI Records - Promotional Poster.

Parlophone.

Photos:

Sgt, Pepper · Portrait.

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

Circus poster reproduction.

Other editions included on this site:

Vinyl:

• L.P U.K • Stereo • Parlophone Records • PCS 7027.
• L.P U.K • Stereo • 8th Edition • 1984 • Parlophone Records • PCS 7027.
• L.P U.S.A • Mono • Capitol Records • MAS 2653.
• L.P U.S.A • Stereo • Capitol Records • SMAS-2653.

Compact Disc:

• C.D U.K • 1987 • Parlophone Records • CDP 7 46442 2.
• C.D E.U • 2009 • Stereo Box Set • EMI Records / Apple Records • 0946 3 82419 2 8.
• C.D Japan • 2009 • Mono Box Set • Apple Records • TOCP-71048 / 5099969945922.

Box Set:

• 50th Anniversary E.U •2017 • C.D+DVD+Blu-ray • Apple Records • 0602557455328.

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