A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
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- TriviaKISS was approached to play the Future Villain Band. They turned down the role, fearing that the movie would hurt their image, and instead starred in Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park (1978).
- GoofsDonald Pleasence's character is called B.D. Hoffler. In the credits, his character is called B.D. Brockhurst.
- Crazy creditsThe old black-and-white Universal Studios logo with a biplane circling a globe is used at the start of the film with added animated explosions in color going off around it.
- SoundtracksSgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Music and Lyrics by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
Performed by The Bee Gees, Paul Nicholas
Produced by George Martin
By Arrangement with Northern Songs Limited
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Even a Train Wreck Can Be Entertaining
I saw this movie three times as a teenager. This was before I had listened to the Beatles very much. I loved the movie and I even owned the soundtrack.
At forty-four, I have heard the Beatles, seen the fall of the BeeGees and seen the stubborn persistence of an almost geriatric Aerosmith. They are indeed the "Future Villain Band".
Love the Beatles? You will hate this movie. Interested in a simpler time when the hair of rock stars sits in a quiet mass atop the head as if waiting to attack (check out Barry Gibb...or is it Maurice?)? Interested in hearing music that you grew up with and loved torn to pieces by dupes of producers that no longer cared if what they made was good...only profitable? Then, this is the movie for you as well...
Songs done well: Come Together, Got to Get You into My Life, Strawberry Fields and I'll Never Do You No Harm...
Songs that didn't stink: Lucy in the Sky, You never Give me Your Money and A Day in the Life...
Songs that were killed and the corpses urinated upon: When I'm Sixty-four, Fixing a Hole, Mister Mustard and Because...
At forty-four, I have heard the Beatles, seen the fall of the BeeGees and seen the stubborn persistence of an almost geriatric Aerosmith. They are indeed the "Future Villain Band".
Love the Beatles? You will hate this movie. Interested in a simpler time when the hair of rock stars sits in a quiet mass atop the head as if waiting to attack (check out Barry Gibb...or is it Maurice?)? Interested in hearing music that you grew up with and loved torn to pieces by dupes of producers that no longer cared if what they made was good...only profitable? Then, this is the movie for you as well...
Songs done well: Come Together, Got to Get You into My Life, Strawberry Fields and I'll Never Do You No Harm...
Songs that didn't stink: Lucy in the Sky, You never Give me Your Money and A Day in the Life...
Songs that were killed and the corpses urinated upon: When I'm Sixty-four, Fixing a Hole, Mister Mustard and Because...
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- Dec 10, 2005
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- Also known as
- Sgt. Pepper
- Filming locations
- San Francisco, California, USA(Tower Records at Columbus & Bay)
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- Budget
- $18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $20,378,470
- Gross worldwide
- $20,378,470
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
- 2.35 : 1
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By what name was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) officially released in India in English?
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