The record opens with a phony live performance by the Lonely Hearts Band, a sort of Vegas act-the sort of thing that, in 1963, people thought the almost certainly soon-to-be-passé Beatles would be doing themselves in 1967. (This was actually the second concept earmarked for the Beatles’ next LP the original, a record of songs about Liverpool, was abandoned when its first two tracks were needed for the group’s next single, “Strawberry Fields Forever”/“Penny Lane.”) Probably for the best, little of the fictional-band vision for the record made it through what did last from that conceit are a few tangential ideas-a satirical bent on popular entertainment and a curiosity with nostalgia and the past. The concept, of course, is that the record was to be recorded by the titular fictional band, a washed-up rock’n’roll group on the comeback trail.
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