Pepper pot shots: which classic albums do you love to hate?
According to Keith Richards’s tell-all autobiography, on the night of the 1967 Redlands drug bust, the guitarist had taken so much LSD that as the police arrived at his Sussex country mansion, he genuinely thought they were uniformed dwarves and welcomed them in with open arms. You’d assume that a man known for his acid-inducted exploits would be partial to the trippy sensibilities of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album so littered with drug references that tracks like Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds and A Day in the Life were banned by the BBC.
As it turns out, however, Keef has little patience for the record once described by Time magazine as “a historic departure in the progress of music – any music”.
As it turns out, however, Keef has little patience for the record once described by Time magazine as “a historic departure in the progress of music – any music”. “Some people think it’s a genius album,” Richards recently told Esquire, “but I think it’s a mishmash of rubbish”.
He’s not the first artist to assassinate the Beatles record. In 2007, Billy Childish told the Guardian of his hatred for the album, a piece of music, he believes, that “signalled the death of rock’n’roll”:
Source: The Guardian
