Episode 150: “All You Need is Love” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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The Duality on Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Harts Club Band
The group would later deny that the album shouldb considered a concept album. But what the title track does do is set out a musical mission statement. This is going to be an album about blending nost age for a vanished england of the past with the most exciting modern sounds. There's the rootitoot clarinet and vere chock an dave of when i'm 64 but there's also the hard rock sound of good morning, good morning. And to link these two sections together, there's a bridge, which uses the massed focals of the brass band section, but the cunchi guitars of the verse sega.
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