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Phoenix New Times,
"Pepper Spray"[current article on Pepperdom],
7/23-29/98: It was 20 years ago this week that Sgt.
Pepper dropped a bomb on movie theaters, so where's all the
rerelease hoopla?
Phoenix New Times,
Wouldn't You Like to Be a Pepper,
Too?": The Beatles' landmark
Sgt. Pepper album cover provided us with a host of
luminaries from the universally recognized to the unknown and
esoteric.
Includes a link to a ".mov" movie file of the finale!
Phoenix New Times, "The
Original Spice Girls":The Sgt. Pepper movie
wasn't all sugar and spice and all things nice to its female lead
roles. Includes
sound clips from Dianne, Sandy, and Stargard!
Phoenix New Times, "Go
E-Mail Alice": Not all the participants in the Sgt.
Pepper movie are unwilling to talk about the experience. Alice
Cooper, about to embark on a tour, was gracious enough to answer
our e-mail of infrequently asked questions (that's IFAQ in
e-mailese) concerning his involvement in this historically bad
film.
Rolling
Stone, 12/30/76: early report on the movie's cast
Rolling
Stone, "Random Notes" 2/9/78:
Alice Cooper, once one of rock's more infamous boozers, is
back in action after four months of sobering up in a New York
sanitarium [and he throws a party].
NY Times, "Inventing a
Plot for "Sgt. Pepper" 7/15/78:
How do you write a motion picture entitled "Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"? That was the problem I had to solve when
producer Robert Stigwood asked me to do...
Rolling
Stone, "Sgt. Pepper Gets Busted" 10/5/78: a scathing
review of the soundtrack LP upon release
Rolling Stone, "Al Coury
owns Number One" 10/5/78
Rolling
Stone, "Earthly Angels: How the Bee Gees talk dirty and influence
people" 5/17/79: [Robin
Gibb] is very critical of both the film and soundtrack album,
saying that the project was "too innocent for these times." What
did he mean by that?
People
Online, "Rock and Roll Hall of Shame", recent: Rock
flops on film: Before there was MTV there were -- echh -- rock
movies.