Paul Is Live (singing about dead people)
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Let’s think about this for a second. It’s a lonely hearts club. For war widows and widowers. The Beatles are standing over an open grave. Despite its triumphal sound, its more mournful and depressing than anything else.
Is this really an appropriate opener for a concert benefitting Africa’s impoverished?
“This one goes out to all my African homies who have lost loved ones to poverty, AIDS and civil war! ‘It’s wonderful to be here, it’s certainly a thrill, yer such a lovely audience, we’d like to take you home with us…’” It’s kind of a dirty line, really, when the band is singing it to a roomful of widowed old ladies.
Lecture presentation on why Sergeant Pepper is actually incredibly depressing instead of technicolor touchstone to come in some future entry.
…Where exactly is the open grave? (Or will that be part of the lecture?)