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The Beatles’ ‘Sgt Pepper’ comes home for 50th anniversary
    2017-05-31  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

It is (almost) 50 years ago that The Beatles released “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.” Liverpool celebrated the landmark album’s anniversary on May 29 with a festival — and one event was taking it particularly close to home for locals.

When actress Brodie Arthur was asked to take part in Liverpool’s official “Sgt Pepper” anniversary celebrations, she first needed to do some quick research.

“When they said ‘Sgt Pepper,’ I said, ‘Oh no, I’ll have to Google it because I don’t know any of the songs on the album.’”

“When I listened, I knew a couple of them, but I wouldn’t necessarily have associated them with the album. I remember the cover and what it looks like, but I’ve never really been familiar with it.”

Now more familiar, Arthur is the star of a play inspired by track six, “She’s Leaving Home.” Listening to it afresh as someone half the age of the album itself, the stirring ballad* still “hits you in the feelers,” she says.

The play is one of a number of events taking place in the Fab Four’s home city for the anniversary.

Each song has inspired a different performance or artwork.

But none is what you might expect — there are no tribute gigs or homages* to the LP’s iconic cover.

For “She’s Leaving Home,” Liverpool-based theater company 20 Stories High asked young people about their home lives and their reactions to the song, which was written about a girl who walks out because she feels trapped by her parents — who say they have “sacrificed most of our lives” for her.

Performances will take place for audiences of just 10 people in the front rooms of terraced houses in the Toxteth area, meaning the play is more closely rooted in the city than any of the other anniversary events.

Arthur, who’s from Toxteth and is a former member of 20 Stories High’s youth theater, says she can relate* to the song.

(SD-Agencies)

 

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