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In light of all of the fuss about the 40th anniversary of Sgt Pepper’s, I decided to dig out my copy of the ill advised NME charity record ‘Sgt Pepper Knew My Father’. As I recall, it was released to coincide with the 20th annversary of the release of Sgt Pepper’s and to raise a couple of quid for Childline. I say ill advised because someone at NME, the bastion of all things indie, thought it would be a good idea to a) do a Beatles covers album and b) ask Wet Wet Wet, Hue and Cry and The Christians along for the ride!

That aside, I managed to find a working turntable and was overjoyed when I was able to plug it directly into my PC to play this ol’ vinyl platter. So I copied it from Vinyl to mp3 and listened to it along the way. There were highlights and low lights. One of the highlights was The Fall doing ‘A day in the life’, which reminded me that I also have a vinyl copy of The Fall’s Frenz Experiment knocking around somewhere too.

Once I’d digitised the Sgt Peppers album I set to work on The Fall one too and, as I hadn’t listened to it for a very long time (it was released in 1988 too), I’d forgotten that one of my favourite cover versions of all time was hidden in there too. Click the links below to hear The Fall doing The Kinks Victoria and The Kinks doing it themselves and you’ll know what I mean.

 The Kinks – Victoria

The Fall – Victoria

To be honest it made me feel 17 all over again!!

And to bring this badly written ramble to a nice Eddie Izzard style close, while listening to The Fall I was reading the sleeve notes (aaaaaah!) and it turns out that this particular Fall opus was recorded at Abbey Road.

Happy 40th birthday Sgt Pepper’s, you still have the power to inspire!