Roger Waters om Sgt. Pepper’s lonely hearts club band og Beatles’ betydning
1. maj 2015Roger Water fortæller til radiostationen KLCS. PInk Floyd indspillede deres Piper at the Gates of Dawn i Abbey Road Studierne på samme tidspunkt som Beatles indspillede Sgt. Pepper-albummet. Men Waters og resten af Pink Floyd hørte først Beatlespladen efter…
“I remember pulling the car over into a lay-by, and we sat and listened. Somebody played the whole thing on the radio. I remember sitting in this old beat-up Zephyr 4, just completely stunned.
“I learned a lot from protest music when I was a young teenager. But I learned from John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison that it was okay for us to write about our lives, what we felt, to express ourselves.â€
Referring to the era when impresarios including Larry Parnes manufactured stars who performed songs written for them in Tin Pan Alley, he reflects: “We didn’t need someone to tell us what to sing and how to sing it.â€
That vital lesson crystallised in Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece The Dark Side Of The Moon. Waters explains: “We’d cracked it. That was the first thing we’d made that was really beautifully crafted – but also, significantly, it was about a lot of things.
“That’s what’s made it stand the test of time.â€
Sådan vedgår man arv og gæld med manér. Well done.
