Steven Van Zandt There are… certainly more innovations on ‘Revolver’… but the truth of the matter is ‘Sgt. Pepper’ has something that was just completely different and unique at that moment. – Steven Van Zandt
Ryan Ross We all like all of that, from ‘Rubber Soul’ to ‘The White Album’ and all of that, but even before, we were into that theatrical element of things. We didn’t want to do a ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ thing. – Ryan Ross
Peter Frampton There’s a place in England called Petticoat Lane, and… they always used to get the heavy albums, like, a week before. So I went down there and got it, and I went back home. I didn’t come out of my room for about three days. I just played it nonstop… ‘Sgt. Pepper’s’ was the best thing I’d ever heard in my life. – Peter Frampton
Jon Landau The Beatles production is often so ‘perfect’ that it sounds computerized. ‘Sgt. Pepper’ really does sound like it took four months to make. – Jon Landau
Jillian Hervey Just coming from a musical family, I was always surrounded by it. On the car rides to school, my mom loved playing A Tribe Called Quest and the Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,’ and then my dad was listening to a lot of Bill Withers and Stevie Wonder. – Jillian Hervey
Denny Laine I knew Paul when he was in the Beatles. We did the second Beatles British tour with the Moody Blues. And we became friends. I went to a couple of the sessions for the ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album, we went to parties together, we went to see Jimi Hendrix together. – Denny Laine
Christina Ricci My sister and I shared a bedroom our entire lives and I believe she discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I’m four years younger. So from the age of 7 until 17 we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia in our room, even those little stuffed Beatles that went on stands that are dressed as the Sgt. Pepper band. – Christina Ricci
Bun E Carlos We were offered 100 ‘Sgt. Pepper’ shows in Las Vegas with a huge back-end. – Bun E Carlos
Bill Ward I love the ‘Black Album’ because I think it was the beginning of something, primarily. I’d met Metallica, and I’d heard Metallica before that, but when I heard the ‘Black Album,’ I actually had a response rather like I did with ‘Sgt. Pepper.’ – Bill Ward
