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The Beatles display in our Wondrous Place gallery. Image © Mark McNulty
We’re only days away from the first of Liverpool’s celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the release of the seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band’. All 13 tracks will be evoked in wonderfully different and creative ways; film, dance, drama, fireworks, circus and more. The programme is as exciting and dynamic as the music it represents.
Paul Gallagher, Deputy Director of Museum of Liverpool said about the album:
The Beatles have always been game changers. They pretty much invented the blueprint for any credible band – the group as a gang of freethinking outliers who play their own instruments and write their own songs. It always comes back to the songs doesn’t it?
Their greatest legacy will always be the songs and in Sgt Pepper we are witnessing the gang in their pomp; ambitious, experimental, cocky, inquisitive, pushing forward, always forward, crafting a collection of songs that continue to endure and beguile; from Vaudeville to Indian mysticism and everything in between.
I vividly recall buying Sgt Pepper as a callow 13 year old in NEMS, in 1974. Whilst I soaked up the music, I stared and stared, mesmerised by Peter Blake designed cover. I even looked up what the word ‘concept’ meant. You wouldn’t get that with an Ed Sheeran album would you?
We are excited to be joining the city-wide party for the album and the 50 Summers of Love celebrations with our own packed season of events. It’ll be an opportunity to time travel back to the sixties, and revisit the decade four lads began a cultural revolution. With objects from our handling team, groovy costumes to try on, themed craft sessions and more, the whole family can learn more about a time when Liverpool was setting the music scene ablaze. With events to also mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of ‘The Mersey Sound’ and the completion of the futuristic Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, don’t miss this chance to celebrate an incredible year in Liverpool’s history.
