So.....Just who was Sgt. Pepper?

And....did he teach the band to play?

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Seriously.....
Does anybody know who Sgt. Pepper really was?

dunno... But I guess he knew Billy Shears...


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Billy Shears

Ringo Starr is introduced on Sgt. Pepper as Billy Shears. Billy Shears is only mentioned in the title song and, implicitly, as the singer of the segued-into "With a Little Help from My Friends".

Billy Shears was later mentioned in Starr's 1973 hit "I'm the Greatest", written by John Lennon: "Yes, my name is Billy Shears / You know it has been for so many years."

In the 1978 RSO movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a character called Billy Shears is played by Peter Frampton.

In the 1968 animated movie Yellow Submarine, the Lennon character asks Jeremy "Who in the Billy Shears are you?", and later, the Billy Shears line from the song is played, but introducing Lennon rather than Starr.

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the leader of the lonely hearts club band, duh..

Of Course he did.

Well... it was HIS lonely hearts club band after all. And the lyrics say he taught the band to play....

"It was twenty years ago today, that Sgt, Pepper taught the band to play...."

I would say yes he did Tm
by the way, thanks for the links....WOW, phenomenal

Probably a drug induced figment of their imagination that they decided to write a song about. Do you know what Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is about? They made many songs while on drugs I wouldnt be suprised.

Paul says he was on a plane, and he saw a salt and pepper shaker. So he thought, Sgt. Peppers. He says the rest just came to him.