The BBC have decided that they're going to mark the 40th anniversary of the release of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by enlisting the new boys about town to copy their songs. Does no-one other than me think this is an awful, awful idea?
I never liked The Beatles that much. Sure, I can see why they're influential, and why other people like them, but I've always been a Stones man. They were/are/will always be better. But even The Beatles don't deserve this humdrum treatment.Razorlight, The Fratellis, Travis, James Morrison, The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs and, perhaps most aptly, Oasis are all going to record songs for a BBC2 special to be aired in June. There is no news yet on who is covering which tracks, but it will still end up sounding like a wet afternoon in Dulwich with nothing but Virgin Radio to listen to regardless.
I think Noel Gallagher is just doing it to fuck with people. It's like when he went on Newsnight and accused Tony Blair of being "like a songwriter who's eternally ripping off someone else's song". The man's got enough self-awareness than to blindly take his Beatles-tribute act onto an....err....Beatles tribute special? Hasn't he?
