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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Big 3 Records
Salesrank: 4888
Released: August 25, 2009 |
| Our Price: $10.62 |
| Used Price: $7.20 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Sgt. Pepper Live Track Listing:
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Clun Band
2. With A Little Help From My friends
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Fixing A Hole
6. She's Leaving Home
7. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!
8. Within You Without You
9. When I'm Sixty-Four
10. Lovely Rita
11. Good Morning Good Morning
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
13. A Day In The Life
14. Medley Song
Editorial Review:
American pop group Cheap Trick, in a reprisal of their wildly successful sold-out concerts, salute the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' seminal Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album with a dynamic track-by-track rendition that features the New York Philharmonic orchestra, an Indian music ensemble and an array of several very special guests. At the helm is none other that the legendary Goeff Emerick, who engineered the Fab Four's definitive album in 1967, and brings and exciting authenticity to the celebration. Cheap Trick genuinely infuse their brand of Beatlesque power pop into a live tribute that pays homage to their musical influences, by capturing the essence of an album that changed music history.
Never before performed live in its entirety by the Beatles, this footage is an exclusive opportunity to hear the complete Sgt. Pepper album performed live by Cheap Trick, bringing the band full-circle in a chilling tribute to their musical heroes.
Sgt. Pepper Live Reviews:
Just Awesome!!!!!!!!!! 
2009-12-18 - I rented this before buying it to just see if it was any good, and WOW its awesome. First off being both a Beatles fan and a Cheap Trick fan, I was not sure if I would like this, but then I watched, more like just listened to it and was amazed at how wonderful a job they did performing these songs, live, nearly note for note as recorded by The Beatles. Also the extra features includes a interview with Cheap Trick which was very informatative and interesting.
I would highly suggest this to any Beatles and Cheap Trick fan.
Sgt Pepper done live by the Trick 
2009-12-09 - A really enjoyable performance, wish I had been there. Every song done as it should be, accuracy and enthusiasm combined. Well done guys. Recommended.
A Solid Well Done Tribute 
2009-11-18 - This tribute is an exciting return to the album, Sgt. Pepper. For die-hard Beatles fans (me) there is always going to be something missing, but the "something missing" will always be the Beatles themselves and there is no remedy for that. (No practical remedy, sci-fi fans.)
There is just enough of the spirit of the Beatles to give one that Beatle rush, and just enough of the spirit of Cheap Trick to admire the task they've set for themselves.
The dedication is apparent in the guitar that the lead guitar player plays at one point, with pictures of the Beatles on the face and the pearl (abalone, for purists) inlay along the fretboard. Take a look. It's an amazing guitar.
The crowd seems a little sedate, but maybe they were asked to be sedate and not distract the band. I hear that happens sometimes in filming one of a kind live shows.
Overall, I subtracted one star for a feeling that I didn't have and that Cheap Trick through no fault of their own couldn't produce. That, and the insipid performance of the young man who sang "When I'm Sixty Four". It was a cringe moment in a mostly worthy concert.
A Real Goose-Bumper!!
2009-11-11 - I have been a huge Cheap Trick fan for decades. This show looks and sounds great. The guests are great and they truly do capture the essence of the Pepper album while still adding personality.
Too faithfull to the original songs
2009-10-17 - A mere three months after the release of its latest studio album (called "The Latest"), now comes this live album from a show performed with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and various other guests.
"Sgt. Pepper Live" (14 songs; 46 min.) brings the setlist from the original Sgt. Pepper album, and the band sticks to the original songs note-by-note. In my opinion, the band is far too faithfull to the original songs. When you hear them like this, all it makes me want to do is put on the actual Beatles album, I mean what is the point of it? I can imagine that if you were in the audience, it was quite a different experience, but on CD it all comes across too serious and too close/faithul to the original songs.
For whatever reason, an extra track was thrown in at the end, "Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End" from Abbey Road. I don't understand this at all. Either you're going to stick to the Sgt. Pepper Live concept, and just do those tracks, OR if you're going to expand beyond Sgt. Pepper, why not throw in a few more or a bunch more, given that this CD only runs 46 min. In all, I find "Sgt. Pepper Live" a very curious album, despite what I'm sure are the best of intentions from the band.
