(I just wrote some of this in a comment responding to @Paul, and while the sentiments are ones I've expressed before, I expressed them particularly succinctly here, and so wanted to surface them as a post, in hopes they'd elicit some discussion.--MG) I'm staying with a friend of mine who is getting over a stroke, and she doesn't know much about The Beatles. I mean, she knows plenty, but she doesn't KNOW about them like you and I do. So after she told me her favorite Beatle was George, we took a couple of nights to watch Martin Scorsese's Living in the [...]

Reading Starostin's part one analysis of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, I realized that I've never wondered for a second about "the concept" behind that LP; it's so clear to me I'm a little puzzled when people -- John Lennon among them -- profess that there is no concept whatever. But I'm finding it difficult to write. I've spent the last two days writing paragraphs and discarding them, and this post is a final attempt to blast through, share my idea, and continue hashing it out in the comments. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is an album designed around a [...]