The album immediately dropped out of the top 100 and pre-sale shipments to the USA failed to sell in the quantities predicted. Radio airplay trailed off when the film was released with poor reviews, only five weeks later. Although there was reported resistance to the interpretation of the Beatles' songs, such as Martin's comedic take on " Maxwell's Silver Hammer", Earth, Wind & Fire's version of " Got To Get You Into My Life" became a million selling single, while Robin Gibb's " Oh! Darling" and Aerosmith's version of " Come Together" both charted in the top 40. Billboard album chart and stayed at number 5 for six weeks. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band debuted at number 7 on the U.S. Erlewine says that the soundtrack has become "a legend in its own right" due to its unenviable reputation and adds that, while it has attracted a cult following, "there's no erasing the fact that this is an absolutely atrocious record". Barnum was right and that euthanasia may have untapped possibilities." Īccording to Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic, the album suffers from clumsy performances by the Bee Gees, Frankie Howerd and Peter Frampton, as well as performers who were poorly suited to their song, including Steve Martin, George Burns and Alice Cooper. He wrote that, apart from the Earth, Wind & Fire and Aerosmith songs, "most of the arrangements are lifted whole without benefit of vocal presence (maybe Maurice should try hormones) or rhythmic integrity ('Can't we get a little of that disco feel in there, George?')" Writing in The Rolling Stone Record Guide in 1983, Dave Marsh dismissed the soundtrack as an "utter travesty" and "asily the worst album of any notoriety in this book." Marsh identified Aerosmith's " Come Together" and Earth, Wind & Fire's " Got to Get You into My Life" as the only competent renditions and concluded: "Two million people bought this album, which proves that P.T. In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, music critic Robert Christgau gave the album a D+ rating with an added "Must to Avoid" warning. The album has been released on compact disc, and along with the soundtrack of Stayin' Alive, one of the only two Bee Gees-related titles for which the master tapes remained with Universal Music when the band gained control of its catalogue.Ĭritical reception Professional ratings Review scores The company itself experienced a considerable financial loss and the Bee Gees as a group had their musical reputation tarnished, though other involved bands such as Aerosmith were unscathed in terms of their popularity. Hundreds of thousands of copies of the album ended up being destroyed by RSO. The release made history as being the first record to "return platinum", with over four million copies of it taken off store shelves and shipped back to distributors. The creation of the soundtrack was marked with tension from the beginning, with Frampton and the Bee Gees both feeling wary of the other artist as well as being unsure as to how their music would work together on the same album. RSO invested $12 million into this soundtrack and the profit offset set against costs such as $1 million for promotion. In 1975, the original plans for the album were suspended due to a dispute between Columbia and RSO. The project was managed by the Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO). Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, which starred the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Steve Martin. It was released in July 1978, as the soundtrack to the film Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a double album produced by George Martin, featuring covers of songs by the Beatles. Maurice White ("Got to Get You Into My Life" only) Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles Northstar Studios, Boulder, CO Record Plant, New York City Abbey Road Studios, London Air Studios, London
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