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...on this, its first day of issue, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Can't recall exactly, however, whether it reached The Medford Mansion, where a group of us from the college radio station were living, on that day or the next or the next, but it soon came -- and got played, and played, and...
...And then came, as I had taken up the felicitous habit of ordering records from England, the UK version which, as one already knew, was different in one respect only (contrary to all previous USA Beatles issues): the lead-out groove on the second side (remember "sides"?) was inscribed with a spoken signature over which controversy already raged. Some folks even played it backwards, well before the intelligence arrived that satanic verses were often hidden that way.
Finally, most agreed that it said, "Do you see any other way?" Myself, I wouldn't budge; it clearly said, "Lucy, Annie, coq-au-vin." But I was alone in my startling conclusion.
clark
PS In a lengthy, vapid article in the current New Yorker, Paul McCartney reminisces on this and that, and we learn how he wrote the tune for "When I'm 64" when he was but 16 -- and his current thinking on that mild irony, being now himself 64 etc. etc. etc.
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