{"id":2836,"date":"2010-07-14T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:04:30","slug":"the-apocalypse-is-upon-us-somebody-posts-the-sgt-peppers-movie-grand-finale-on-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-apocalypse-is-upon-us-somebody-posts-the-sgt-peppers-movie-grand-finale-on-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apocalypse Is Upon Us &#8212; Somebody Posts the <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s<\/em> Movie Finale on YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jim4lQnHK-0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><em>Start playing at 3:15.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>All this reminiscing about the godawful <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/gibb_to_produce_lemgmagical_mystery_tour\" target=\"_blank\">Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band<\/a><\/em> movie got me thinking about the weirdest moment in an otherwise already super-weird decade in filmed musical entertainment: the 1970s. That moment <em>has<\/em> to be the grand finale of the Robert Stigwood-produced <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s<\/em> movie. The movie is stupid enough, but &#8212; for the huge chorus finale &#8212; you can tell Stigwood put a call out to all his cronies, cohorts, and coke dealers to round up as many washed-up rock stars and <em>Love Boat<\/em> cast members as possible.  Then he set them on a huge outdoor set, taught them a few rudimentary dance moves, and had them sing along to a bad cover of the <em>Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s<\/em> &#8220;Reprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cast he assembled is downright strange.  But &#8212; rather than have me rattle them all off here &#8212; why don&#8217;t we rattle them all off together?  It really is a fascinating, fun time-waster of an activity.  I&#8217;m also hoping in my heart of hearts that you worthy Townsmen will also take a few moments to comment on the widely varying performances caught on screen.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start the proceedings by pointing out:  at 4:26 &#8212; yes, that&#8217;s albino guitar wizard <strong>Johnny Winter<\/strong>, &#8220;dancing&#8221; rather haphazardly!<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start playing at 3:15. All this reminiscing about the godawful Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band movie got me thinking about the weirdest moment in an otherwise already super-weird decade in filmed musical entertainment: the 1970s. That moment has to be the grand finale of the Robert Stigwood-produced Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s movie. The movie is stupid <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-apocalypse-is-upon-us-somebody-posts-the-sgt-peppers-movie-grand-finale-on-youtube\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[125,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}