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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today... Sgt Pepper and Beyond
Description
A documentation of the influences that went on to help create the seminal album, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
A documentation of the influences that went on to help create the seminal album, Sgt Pepper's lonely hearts club band.
Actors:
Maureen Starkey,
Bill Harry,
Roger Waters,
John Lennon,
Andre Barreau,
Ringo Starr,
Barbara ODonnell,
Maurice Gibb,
Simon Napier-Bell,
George Harrison,
Cilla Black,
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Maureen Starkey
August 4, 1946 in Liverpool, England, UK
Bill Harry
Roger Waters
6 September 1943, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
John Lennon
9 October 1940, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Andre Barreau
Ringo Starr
7 July 1940, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Barbara ODonnell
Maurice Gibb
22 December 1949, Douglas, Isle of Man, UK
Simon Napier-Bell
22 April 1939, Ealing Common, London, England, UK
George Harrison
25 February 1943, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK
Cilla Black
27 May 1943, Liverpool, England, UK
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Alan G. Parker
Alan G. Parker
Country:
United Kingdom
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May 16, 2017
Even blessed with such a rich subject and vast reserves of archive footage, It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! still has the threadbare feel of an unauthorized cash-in.
May 25, 2017
Alan G Parker's film is an overlong, tedious parade of familiar talking heads (Hunter Davies, Pete Best) trotting out familiar anecdotes and, significantly for a film about an album, there's not a note of Beatles music.
May 25, 2017
There isn't a single note of the actual album to be heard, nor any images of the record itself and its famed cover art.
May 22, 2017
What's the point in making a documentary about a classic album if you don't have the rights to any of the music?
May 26, 2017
With a two-hour bombardment of talking heads of varying relevance, Parker tries gamely, but fails resoundingly, to overcome his documentary's glaring paradox - that it's a film about music containing no music.
May 26, 2017
This is the most frustrating film. It's probably no fault of the makers, but it's rare to have to assess a documentary for what it doesn't have.
May 26, 2017
It's not easy to make a documentary about the greatest album in history when you don't have access to a single note of the music, but this documentary forges on and cashes in regardless ...