Meyer noted that Barry Gibb chose The Beatles as his “nemesis”. The Bee Gees’ first single, New York Mining Disaster 1941, is often likened to The Beatles, and Barry Gibb admitted to being “Beatle-ish in the early days”.
“John Lennon was buying them drinks when they first came over from Australia – they were all hanging out at the Bag O’Nails, Saville Theatre, and all those nightclubs in London in the Sixties. “They were very good friends,” says Richard Mills, author of The Beatles and Fandom. They were, however, pals with The Bee Gees. The Beatles responded by threatening to record out-of-tune versions of God Save the Queen for the remainder of their contract. Beatles manager Brian Epstein once suggested bringing in Stigwood as a co-manager. The Beatles actually disliked Robert Stigwood, a resentment that dated back years. Speaking on the Nothing is Real podcast, Beatles experts Steven Cockcroft and Jason Carty suggested this was just “flannel” from Stigwood. The Beatles, according to Stigwood, had “a big piece of the picture”.
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The band were reportedly given script and director approval, plus the option of an on-location rep who could attend daily screenings and report back to Lennon and McCartney. Though The Beatles, said Stigwood, were “cooperative”. Michael Schultz, who made Car Wash in 1976, was hired as director.Īccording to Stigwood it took a year to get the rights to the songs. He told Stigwood that he wanted to make “the musical of the future”. Edwards – who had no screenwriting experience – envisioned the film as a twist on golden age Hollywood musicals. Unperturbed, Stigwood approached music critic Henry Edwards to write his film version. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on the Road – which opened in New York in November 1974. Stigwood first produced an off-Broadway stage version – Sgt. He produced the Tommy musical and harboured long-held designs on turning Sgt. Stigwood managed The Bee Gees and had mega-hits with the Saturday Night Fever and Grease soundtracks on his RSO Records label. The project was masterminded by Robert Stigwood, the promoter/producer/all-round entrepreneur and outsized persona. Meyer wrote, “it might have been speed doing the talking”. Robin Gibb believed their versions of the songs, released on an accompanying double LP, would become the definitive Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band film is strange. Not to mention cameos from Steve Martin, George Burns, Alice Cooper, Donald Pleasence, and – in one of the few musical highlights – Earth, Wind and Fire. Then a weathervane comes to life, belts out Get Back, and transforms Howerd into the pope. Not the album, of course, but the 1978 musical: a film based (literally) on Beatles songs, in which the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton fight with Aerosmith and rescue magical-powered instruments from the clutches of an evil Frankie Howerd. It's a premise that shouldn’t work and - according to most Beatles fans - really doesn’t.
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