Consumos web. 05/13/2017

• Meet the critic who panned ‘Sgt. Pepper’ then discovered his speaker was busted. He’s still not sorry. - The Washington Post

  “He was the first rock critic. I mean, it turns out Paul Williams was publishing his zine [Crawdaddy] and there were other things happening, but without question, he was the most visible.”

  tags: Beatles beatlealbums beatlepeople

• Why Some Critics Initially Hated the Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

  Goldstein refused, however, to blame the equipment for his negative reaction to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. “I didn’t get it because the record wasn’t really rock. It didn’t belong in any genre that I could think of, so I didn’t know how to receive it. I think I was quite a puritan when I reviewed that album.

  tags: Beatle beatlehistory beatlealbums beatlesongs

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