Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band hit theaters three days after my 13th birthday in 1978. My bedroom walls were papered with its stars — the Bee Gees, Peter Frampton and Paul Nicholas ...

“ [W]hen they came to film Sgt. Pepper with the Bee Gees, I said, ‘This is never going to work,’ because everyone has their own image from Sgt. Pepper, the album,” McCartney explained.

For a movie that was lauded as being the late 1970s’ generation’s Gone with the Wind, the Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band film proved to be less “Academy Award-winning cinematic ...