# The "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Sucks Ass" Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 23, 2005, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866 "2005-03-23T09:31:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/21 "2005-03-23T21:26:22Z")
I liked it too, back in 1978. I was 17 and this was, obviously, pre-VCR days. But it had an extended run at our local drive in – they used to do double features and they ran it as the second feature for, it seems like, a whole month. The first feature would change weekly. So I saw it 4 or 5 times at the drive in, plus I’d seen it once at the first-run indoor theater. It was pretty cheesy but enjoyable. I _liked_ the music and I thought the dude who played the manager – Dougie, it looks like, played by someone named Paul Nicholas – was hot as hell. _Much_ cuter than Frampton, or any of the brothers Gibb. ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/22 "2005-03-23T21:31:22Z")
Hmmm… He’s still pretty [cute](http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/_images/db/9/73/Paul.97365.full.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/leisure/leisureinterviews/display.var.486832.0.paul_nicholas_interviewed_may_2004.php&h=251&w=250&sz=13&tbnid=zG8lw4rxWZcJ:&tbnh=105&tbnw=105&start=15&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522paul%2Bnicholas%2522%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLD,GGLD:2004-21,GGLD:en%26sa%3DN). ---
**Author:** ![asrivkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9d8465/32.png) [@asrivkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asrivkin)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2005, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/23 "2005-03-23T23:40:31Z")
I’m a big Beatles fan. My wife made me watch this movie. Ooch. There is no amount of suspension of disbelief that can make me accept that the Bee Gees could get into a fistfight with Aerosmith and still have all of their limbs afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/24 "2005-03-24T02:33:25Z")
> [@asrivkin](#): > > There is no amount of suspension of disbelief that can make me accept that the Bee Gees could get into a fistfight with Aerosmith and still have all of their limbs afterwards. [Monty Python voice]Maybe they could bite off their legs![/Monty Python voice] ::Ahem:: Maurice Gibb claimed that 2 weeks into the filming of the movie, they knew that Sgt. Pepper was rubbish. Says they asked to be released from the movie but were under contractual obligation to finish it. Of course, he admitted that when Robert Stigwood had told them that he needed music for a soundtrack of a “little movie” he was making about a guy who worked in a paint store and enters a dance contest, he thought the idea was stupid. That “little movie,” of course, turned into Saturday Night Fever. (Which, FTR I think Maurice was spot on, but there’s no accounting for taste.) Interesting side note: BeeGees longtime manager, Robert Stigwood, who was the force behind Sgt. Pepper, was Brian Epstein’s partner. Why would Stigwood turn his proteges, who had enjoyed monumental success doing their own material, into a cover band of his dead partner’s band? It boggles the mind. I saw the movie three times when I was a pre-teen. (Hey! The BeeGees were my generations’ 'nSync.) And even though I was pretty unsophisticated, even I could tell that the movie was disjointed and really, really bad. Haven’t seen it since and I doubt time would improve my opinion of it.) Though, in all honesty, I can’t say I’m a fan of Rocky Horror either. I guess I just don’t “get” movies that are deliberately bad. Xanadu anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/25 "2005-03-24T02:59:37Z")
> [@PunditLisa](#): > > Xanadu anyone? Sure. Take out the not-singing parts and it’s not bad. As for the OP: lalalalalalalalalalala - there was no Sgt. Pepper movie - lalalalalalalalalala ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/26 "2005-03-24T03:17:34Z")
Wasn’t **Keith Moon** in this movie, or am I trippin’? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2005, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/27 "2005-03-24T03:46:51Z")
> [@Torgo](#): > > Wasn’t **Keith Moon** in this movie, or am I trippin’? You must have taken some of Keith’s horse tranqulizers. 😃 He was in Tommy, but not Sgt. Pepper (which, of course, never happened). ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/28 "2005-03-25T15:48:42Z")
> [@Torgo](#): > > Wasn’t **Keith Moon** in this movie, or am I trippin’? Nope, and thank goodness for that, or I might actually have to force myself to watch the whole thing. Aside from **Tommy** Moon was in a (very) few other movies; you may also be thinking of Frank Zappa’s **200 Motels** , in which Moon plays a nun. Really. As for **Sgt. Pepper** , I’ve only seen a few minutes of it. I was channel surfing one day years ago and noticed a woman singing “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”. I don’t really care for the Beatles, but it seemed more promising than anything else I’d flipped by, so I decided to watch for a while. It didn’t take long for me to realize that I’d be better off watching anything else, including a blank screen. (What was with the cardboard cutouts turning into live band members? Did that really happen, or am I misremembering?) Although now that the subject’s come up, I do have a kind of perverse desire to see how bad the rest of the movie is. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/29 "2005-03-25T15:58:37Z")
In fairness, there was one bright spot in the movie. Sandy Farina as Straw…snicker…Strawberr…snort…Strawberry Fields! There I said it! I remember seeing this movie on The Movie Channel back in the late 70’s when our cable system first added it to the lineup. If I’m not mistaken, they simply alternated two movies throughout a day, so I probably saw it 3 or 4 times, even though I knew it sucked! ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/30 "2005-03-25T16:10:01Z")
I think I’ll put the DVD on when I get home. ---
**Author:** ![Torgo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@Torgo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torgo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/31 "2005-03-25T16:44:03Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > You must have taken some of Keith’s horse tranqulizers. 😃 > > He was in Tommy, but not Sgt. Pepper (which, of course, never happened). Perhaps. 🙂 But somewhere out there is a recording of Moon warbling **When I’m Sixty-Four** ; I distinctly remember this atrocity from my adolescence and I assumed it was from the movie. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/32 "2005-03-25T17:12:42Z")
> [@Torgo](#): > > Perhaps. > 🙂 > > But somewhere out there is a recording of Moon warbling **When I’m Sixty-Four** ; I distinctly remember this atrocity from my adolescence and I assumed it was from the movie. [All This and World War II](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:oq3zef5k8gfo) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2005, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866/33 "2005-03-25T17:21:30Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Aside from **Tommy** Moon was in a (very) few other movies; you may also be thinking of Frank Zappa’s **200 Motels** , in which Moon plays a nun. Really. The scary part is that he plays a nun who _dies of an overdose_. “The pills…I took so many of them!” Boy, that wasn’t so funny seven years later. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-sucks-ass-thread/295866.md?page=1)