Pepper soundtrack was the only album that they did not include.) Hardly any participant in the film emerged totally unscathed.Īerosmith starred in Sgt. (It should be noted that when the Bee Gees regained control of their catalog, the Sgt. For several of the movie’s stars, the film was an act of mass career suicide, caught on camera. 76 on VH1’s “100 Most Shocking Moments in Rock and Roll,” was a commercial failure, barely breaking even at the box office and nearly wiping out RSO’s massive profits from Saturday Night Fever and Grease. Maxwell, and Preston parading through “Get Back” in a gold lamé uniform and matching go-go boots - now stands as an amusing artifact of a very wacky era.īut at the time, the rock opera, which later ranked at No.
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The discombobulated movie musical, composed entirely of bizarre Beatles covers - including Speak-&-Spell-voiced robots bleating and bleeping their way through “She’s Leaving Home,” Alice Cooper as a cult leader doing a spoken-word rendition of “Because,” Steve Martin as the silver-hammer-wielding Dr. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ (Photo: Universal Pictures)īack in ’78, RSO kingpin Robert Stigwood - the man behind such box-office smashes as Grease, Bugsy Malone, and Saturday Night Fever - somehow convinced ’70s luminaries like Peter Frampton, the Bee Gees, George Burns, Sha Na Na, Carol Channing, and actual Beatles cohort Billy Preston to appear in Sgt.