History Trivia / SgtPeppersLonelyHeartsClubBand

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A [[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7751562/beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-album-50th-anniversary-reissue 6-CD/DVD/Blu-ray box set]] containing remixes, outtakes, videos, etc. will be issued in 2017 to commemorate the album's 50th anniversary. More modest but still enhanced single-CD, 2-CD, and 2-LP anniversary editions will also be released.

* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: A [[http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/7751562/beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-album-50th-anniversary-reissue 6-CD/DVD/Blu-ray box set]] containing remixes, outtakes, videos, etc. will be issued in 2017 to commemorate the album's 50th anniversary. Single-CD, 2-CD, and 2-LP anniversary editions will also be released.

* HitlessHitAlbum: Upon release, it had no singles issued (though "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were recorded during the sessions and originally intended to be included on the album, and the title track was a single in the 1970s).

* HitlessHitAlbum: Upon release, it had no singles issued (though "Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" were intended to be there, and the title track was a single in the 1970s).

** Sadly played straight for Music/{{Aerosmith}}, who were probably one of the acts that should have come out of this film as one the least embarrassed parties. Their "Come Together" cover was a hit, but it would be their last Top 40 entry for ''nine years'' (Music/RunDMC's "Walk This Way" notwithstanding). Around this time, The band was falling apart due to drugs and personality clashes. Needless to stay appearing a historic flop of a movie did not help the band's morale or waning popularity. [[CareerResurrection It got better for them]], but it took nearly a decade for them to return to where they were before they made the film.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were recorded during the sessions for this album with the intention of them being part of it, but they ended up being released as non-album singles instead. Additionally, there was supposed to be a television special based on the album, but it was scrapped before completion. There was, however, a [[MusicVideo promotional video]] produced for "A Day in the Life" (as well as the aforementioned singles).

* StarDerailingRole: Many of the musicians involved hit career slumps or derailment in the wake of this movie's failure. The only people whose career wasn't killed/nearly killed/affected whatsoever were Creator/SteveMartin (who was so popular at the time as a standup comedian that even the poor reception of this couldn't kill his film career before it started) and Music/EarthWindAndFire (whose cover of "Got to Get You Into My Life" was the biggest hit on the soundtrack, and they kept on having having hits afterward with no slump).

** These were songs were also {{Breakaway Pop Hit}}s for the soundtrack album, one of the biggest flops in pop music history. Sales were high at first...but then the returns started happening. An estimated ''four million copies'' were returned to the label, who ultimately had to destroy hundreds of thousands of copies and remainder the rest of them. Compare this to Music/EarthWindAndFire's "Got to Get You Into My Life" single, which was a Gold-selling top ten hit based on its own merits as a good cover independent of the movie.

** These were songs were also {{Breakaway Pop Hit}}s for the soundtrack album, one of the biggest flops in pop music history. Sales were high at first...and the returns started happening. An estimated ''four million copies'' were returned to the label, who ultimately had to destroy hundreds of thousands of copies and remainder the rest of them. Compare this to Music/EarthWindAndFire's "Got to Get You Into My Life" single, which was a Gold-selling top ten hit based on its own merits as a good cover independent of the movie.

** These were songs were also {{BreakawayPopHit}}s for the soundtrack album, one of the biggest flops in pop music history. Sales were high at first...and the returns started happening. An estimated ''four million copies'' were returned to the label, who ultimately had to destroy hundreds of thousands of copies and remainder the rest of them. Compare this to Music/EarthWindAndFire's "Got to Get You Into My Life" single, which was a Gold-selling top ten hit based on its own merits as a good cover independent of the movie.

** Sadly played straight for Music/Aerosmith, who were probably one of the acts that should have come out of this film as one the least embarrassed parties. Their "Come Together" cover was a hit, but it would be their last Top 40 entry for ''nine years'' (Music/RunDMC's "Walk This Way" notwithstanding). Around this time, The band was falling apart due to drugs and personality clashes. Needless to stay appearing a historic flop of a movie did not help the band's morale or waning popularity. [[CareerResurrection It got better for them]], but it took nearly a decade for them to return to where they were before they made the film.

* StarDerailingRole: Many of the musicians involved hit career slumps or derailment in the wake of this movie's failure. The only person whose career wasn't killed/nearly killed/affected whatsoever was Creator/SteveMartin, who was so popular at the time as a standup comedian that even the poor reception of this couldn't kill his film career before it started. Creator/GeorgeBurns and Creator/DonaldPleasence also managed to get off relatively lightly, mostly because they had other big hits at the same time (''Film/OhGod'' and ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' respectively).

** Creator/OliviaNewtonJohn turned down the role of Strawberry Fields.

** Music/ EltonJohn, Music/BarryManilow and Creator/BobHope were considered for Mr. Kite.

** Music/RingoStarr preferred ''The White Album'' and ''Abbey Road'', but for more personal reasons--he claimed that he felt out of the loop and "like a session drummer" during the recording of ''Pepper'', a claim that becomes particularly hilarious when you remember what teeth-pulling frustration and fighting took place during the next albums' recording sessions. (Regardless, many people consider "A Day in the Life" to contain some of his best work.)

* StarDerailingRole: Many of the musicians involved hit career slumps or derailment in the wake of this movie's failure. The only person whose career wasn't killed/nearly killed/affected whatsoever was Creator/SteveMartin, who was so popular at the time as a standup comedian that even the poor reception of this couldn't kill his film career before it started. Creator/GeorgeBurns and Creator/DonaldPleasence also managed to get off relatively lightly, mostly because they had other big hits at the same time (''Film/OhGod'' and ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' respectively)
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the then-recent flop of their own movie, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.
** Considering that KISS has become the living embodiment of MoneyDearBoy, in hindsight it would have been oddly appropriate.

** There is also a mashup album by Clayton Counts called ''[[http://claytoncounts.com/blog/the-beachles Sgt. Petsound's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'' (a mashup of this album and TheBeachBoys' ''Pet Sounds''). The album, which provoked a cease-and-desist letter from EMI (followed by a massive rant on freedom of expression by Counts), was created as "[[{{Satire}} a semi-sadistic commentary on the dismal mash-up phenomenon]], and a meager tribute to two of the greatest pop bands of the 20th century."

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the recent flop of their own movie, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the recent flop of their own movie, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.** Considering that KISS has become the living embodiment of MoneyDearBoy, in hindsight it would have been oddly appropriate.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the recent flop of their own movie, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.)

* TheParody[=/=]WholePlotReference: The band Big Daddy recorded the whole album as if it was made in the 1950s (i.e. "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGpCqsc2SK8 Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds]]" InTheStyleOf JerryLeeLewis)

** The cover would originally also contain images of AdolfHitler, JesusChrist, MahatmaGandhi and actor Leo Gorcey. The idea to put Hitler and Jesus there came from Lennon, who wanted to provoke. Eventually they were dropped because their images would certainly offend people, especially since Lennon had already hit controversy when his 1966 quote that "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus" was taken out of context. Gandhi was dropped under pressure of EMI, who feared a backlash in India where Gandhi's status is practically divine. And Gorcey was airbrushed out because he was the only celebrity who wanted a fee for appearing on the cover.

* StarDerailingRole: Many of the musicians involved hit career slumps or derailment in the wake of this movie's failure. The only person whose career wasn't killed/nearly killed/affected whatsoever was SteveMartin, who was so popular at the time as a standup comedian that even the poor reception of this couldn't kill his film career before it started. George Burns and Donald Pleasence also managed to get off relatively lightly, mostly because they had other big hits at the same time (''Film/OhGod'' and ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' respectively)

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the recent flop of their own movie, ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.)

* StarDerailingRole: Many of the musicians involved hit career slumps or derailment in the wake of this movie's failure. The only person whose career wasn't killed/nearly killed/affected whatsoever was SteveMartin, who was so popular at the time as a standup comedian that even the poor reception of this couldn't kill his film career before it started.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Supposedly ''[=KISS=]'' was approached to play Future Villain Band, but they turned it down. (Given the recent flop their own movie ''KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park'', it's not surprising.)

* BreakawayPopHit: The film versions of "Got to Get You Into My Life" and "Come Together" were hits for their performers and still turn up on oldies radio.

* ThrowItIn: The alarm clock in "A Day in the Life" was originally just marking when it would change, but it fit well as the first lyric that follows is "Woke up, fell out of bed..."