By Brian Thompson
I. The Setup
By 1966, the Beatles had hit their creative peak with the recording of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the little-known album upon which the mega blockbuster Peter Frampton film was based. But try as they might to arrange all those paper cutouts just so and find the most ridiculous marching band outfits imaginable to dance around in, production wasn’t going smoothly. John Lennon, who was bigger than Jesus, just couldn’t seem to understand that his comically long mustache got in the way of his guitar playing, and Yoko Ono couldn’t understand that the arrhythmic string-beating that ensued wasn’t really music. A sock full of mushrooms mysteriously emerged from Ringo Starr’s, and when George Harrison ate them, he became momentarily invisible.
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