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{{quote|''"A Splendid Time is Guarranteed For All"''|quote from "Being For the Benefit of Mr Kite" used as the [[Irony|ironic]] [[Tagline]].}}
A 1978 movie combining The [[Bee Gees]], [[Steve Martin]], [[Peter Frampton]], Frankie Howerd, George Burns and [[Alice Cooper]] with the then-11-year-old classic [[The Beatles (band)|Beatles]] [[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band|album]], although it also incorporates other late-period Beatles songs. Beatles producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick lent the film their reflected credibility.
This [[All-Star Cast]] fantasy tries to wrap a storyline around Beatles songs and the characters in them, as a vehicle for popular acts of the time. There is no spoken dialogue aside from that of narrator Mr. Kite (George Burns), the mayor of Heartland U.S.A.
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While [[Aerosmith]]'s take on "Come Together" and Earth Wind & Fire's cover of "Got to Get You Into My Life" are well-regarded, this movie also gave us George Burns singing "Fixing a Hole" and [[Steve Martin]] performing "Maxwell's Silver Hammer". The silly story and frequent poor match-ups of songs to situations render it all [[So Bad It's Good]] at best, and it was a major flop, swiftly overshadowed by another rock musical, ''[[Grease]]'', at the summer box office.
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* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The original album is more or less a fantasy concert. The movie starts with a concert... and then there's the whole plot. Also, it incorporates songs from other
* [[All-Star Cast]]
* [[Big Bad]]: F.V.B., which stands for Future Villain Band (Aerosmith).
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