The worst idea for a movie...EVER!

A little background on this one.

Back in the 70's before alot of you youngins were out of diapers, my mom bought me my 1st album. Vinyl. It was the Beatles, Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. I wore a grove in this record. Still for me probably the greatest album in history. I know every word.

In 1978 A movie came out based loosely on the Album (And some Abby Road mixed in as well). Since it was the 70's it was cast with Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees. I think of this because this movie came in the Independent Film Channel and like a trainwreck I had to watch.

All the characters were named after Beatles songs! Starring Billy Shears (Peter Frampton) and the Hendersons (the Bee Gees) "were all there" as well, "Sgt. Pepper" featured Strawberry Fields (Sandy Farina) as Billy's leading lady, and Mr. Mustard (Frank Howerd) was "such a mean old man." Let's not forget Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (Dianne Steinberg), the Sun King (Alice Cooper), and Sgt. Pepper played by an old Beatles protege (Billy Preston). The movie also depicted countless cover versions of Beatles songs, including Earth Wind & Fire's "Got to Get You Into My Life." As the narrator, Mr. Kite (George Burns) even covered "Fixin' a Hole." YES I SAID A BEATLES COVER BY GEORGE BURNS!

Cameos by Steve Martin (Dr Maxwell and his Silver Hammer) and AeroSmith (As the Future Villian Band) Could not save even 1 inch of this movie.



The plot goes like this. Sgt Pepper was an old man who had magical instruments. Peter Frampton and the Gees went to Hollywood from a small town and made it BIG! Later these instruments were stolen by Aerosmith, Steve Martin, Alice Copper Etc. The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton went to get them back. Aerosmith kills Stawberry Fields, They sing some Beatles Ballads. Sgt Pepper is resurrected from an old white guy to a Black man and brings strawberry fields back to life. Then there is a huge musical number at the end that includes Bowser from Sha Na Na, Tina Turner and Hank Williams Jr.

And no...Im not kidding

This movie surpasses Joes list of "So bad they are good" list. Top this to a "So bad you'll cry, laugh, and wonder how in the hell you will get the last 90 minutes of your life back"

This one hurts. Goes deep into the core, and destroys the image of Gooses alltime favorite album. Image Hollywood doing this to your greatest music Album of ALL TIME!

I have a few other posts coming. Im going to introduce Jayne to MY favorite SCI FI Movie (Train knows whats coming) plus a Synopsis of all 3 King Kong Movies now that I have see the third.


Goose