Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) on Netflix
PG19781h 53mAdventureComedyFantasy
Billy Shears forms a band in Heartland with his three best friends, and a Hollywood producer offers them a record deal. Back home, Mr. Mustard plots to steal the town's magical instruments.
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In Heartland, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band once spread joy through its music, and the band's instruments have been kept in City Hall since he died. His grandson Billy Shears starts a new group with his three closest friends, the brothers Mark, Dave and Bob Henderson, while his half-brother Dougie Shears manages them. The town takes to the band, and B.D. Hoffler, who runs Big Deal Records, offers a contract and a trip to Hollywood. Billy says goodbye to his girlfriend Strawberry Fields. With the band away, Mr. Mustard, a former real estate agent, and his henchman the Brute drive into Heartland to steal the instruments for the mysterious FVB.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
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- Before the film's release Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees announced that kids today did not know the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper, and that once they saw the film and heard the Bee Gees do it, "that will be the version they relate to and remember. Unfortunately, the Beatles will be secondary."
- Only Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr went to see the movie when it first premiered, and in a 1979 interview George Harrison said of Frampton and the Bee Gees: "I think it's damaged their images, their careers... It's just like the Beatles trying to do the Rolling Stones."
- In Rolling Stone, Paul Nelson ridiculed virtually every aspect of the production, writing that Frampton had "absolutely no future in Hollywood" while Schultz "would seem to need direction merely to find the set, let alone the camera".
- Steve Martin, who plays Dr. Maxwell Edison, released his comedy album A Wild and Crazy Guy the same year as the film, and it reached number two on the music-dominated Billboard 200 album charts.
- In the last scene the cast is joined by "Our Guests at Heartland" to sing the reprise of the title track while standing in a formation imitating the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper album cover; it was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios on December 16, 1977.
