Former Jethro Tull Keyboardist Dee Palmer's 'The Orchestral Sgt Pepper' Reissued

Gonzo Multimedia has reissued Dee Palmer's "The Orchestral Sgt Pepper"! From 1968 until 1980 she was arranger and, subsequently, keyboardist with the globally prestigious, seminal English rock group, Jethro Tull. On leaving the group she produced an acclaimed series of albums of symphonic versions of prog-rock music of the 70's - Tull, Genesis, Pink Floyd, Yes, Queen etc. - performing them, live, in Europe and the Americas throughout the 90's

In June 1967 The Beatles released "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", their eighth studio album. The critic Kenneth Tynan described it as "a decisive moment in the history of Western civilization". Richard Poirier wrote: "Listening to the Sgt. Pepper album one thinks not simply of the history of popular music but the history of this century." Time magazine declared it "a historic departure in the progress of music - any music." Newsweek's Jack Kroll called it a "masterpiece", comparing the lyrics with literary works by Edith Sitwell, Harold Pinter and T. S. Eliot, particularly "A Day in the Life", which he compared to Eliot's The Waste Land. The New York Times Book Review characterized it as a harbinger of a "golden Renaissance of Song" and the New Statesman?'s Wilfrid Mellers praised its elevation of pop music to the level of fine art.

In 1994, Dee Palmer orchestrated this classic album for EMI at the famous Abbey Road studios with the Royal Academy Of Music Symphony Orchestra, donating the lion's share of the royalties for the benefit of impecunious music students at the Royal Academy, having once been one herself.

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