Written in 1967, Sgt. Pepper’s was the world’s first concept album. The Beatles went into the studio, enthusiastically embracing the possibilities for experimentation that were blossoming at the time, and with no intention of playing the album live. Firstly, because they just didn’t feel like it (due to the hordes of screeching fans), but also because it was music that supposedly couldn’t be performed on stage, as it was too complicated. But that music just had to be played live at some point! Now The Analogues’ perform this masterwork live in all its analogue glory—an honor for which no effort has been spared with regards to a truckload of wild and wonderful vintage instruments. There’s a sitar and tabla drums for ‘Within You, Without You’, a rare Lowrey keyboard for ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’; a harp for ‘She’s Leaving Home’, plus, of course, a huge array of strings and horns. This is The Analogue’s quest to faithfully perform Sgt. Pepper’s live!
Practical Effects
Truckload of vintage instruments—sitar, tabla, harp, that rare Lowrey.
Direction
Intimate camerawork lets you geek out on every gear detail.
Sound
Analog warmth that streaming services wish they could bottle.
Director
Marcel de Vré
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original Sgt. Pepper sessions used a custom-built Leslie speaker for vocals—The Analogues hunted down period-correct gear for months.
This 2017 performance came fifty years after the album's release, during a wave of Beatles anniversary tributes that questioned whether tribute acts could ever match the real thing.
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