Various Artists-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)

In the mid-seventies Robert Stigwood was one of the magnates of Hollywood, he had financed such mythical works as "Tommy" or "Saturday Night Fever", he was also the owner of one of the most fruitful record companies of that decade, RSO Records .
The RSO managed the careers of several superstars (Bee Gees, Yvonne Elliman, Eric Clapton, Andy Gibb ... among many others) and, as a record label, released the soundtracks for Fame, Sparkle, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Times Square, Grease (with which it would manage to sell more than 30 million copies worldwide), Grease 2 and Saturday Night Fever (with more than 35 million copies sold worldwide). The release of Grease and Saturday Night Fever made RSO one of the most financially successful record labels of the 1970s.
In mid-1977 he wanted to bring the legendary The Beatles album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" to the big screen, loosely adapting the musical that a few years earlier had premiered on Broadway under the name "Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band On The Road ".
The re-adapted script was a caramelized rock opera that mixed Beatles songs from their album "Sgt Pepper´s ..." and "Abbey Road", and even to take an analogy even further Stigwood would achieve that the producer of the very same The Beatles George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick will participate as producers.
For the film they had an impressive cast of great artists who at that time were in their greatest splendor, on the one hand Peter Frampton who arrived in full after his overwhelming success in his double "Comes Alive", on the other hand the Bee Gees, who had starred in one of the most successful soundtracks in history such as "Saturday Night Fever".
Without going into the plot of a movie that received fierce criticism from the press on both sides of the Atlantic, in the musicals, without being extraordinary, much less, if it had moments of lucidity by some of the artists who intervened .
In addition to those mentioned, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Earth Wind & Fire or Billy Preston among others would also participate.
Some of the versions are considered minimally successful among them "Come Together" performed by Aerosmith, "Get Back" by Billy Preston, "Got To Get You Into my Life" by Earth Wind & Fire or those performed by Peter Frampton and The Bee Gees On the other hand, there were others that drastically overshadowed the Beatles philosophy, such as those interpreted by Sandy Farina, Frankie Howerd or the grim version of "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by Steve Martin.
Contrary to the double album that contained the soundtrack, the movie was a resounding failure, mainly because of the bizarre script that would be grotesque with actors who did not measure up such as Steve Martin, George Burns, Frankie Howerd or Paul Nicholas
Instead the soundtrack achieved the platinum record thanks in part to early sales before the movie was officially released.
From here on, the careers of fundamentally Peter Frampton The Bee Gees decreased enormously because of this resounding film, which however has become a cult film and album and a rare bird that for better or for worse has passed into the history.