Keith Richards Trashes Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ as ‘Rubbish’

“I think they got carried away,” Rolling Stones guitarist says of album that’s widely regarded as a classic

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Keith Richards is trash-talking again — and this time he’s taking aim at a classic rock album.

Rolling Stones guitarist Richards — who’s Mick Jagger in His Memoir” href=”https://www.thewrap.com/keith-richards-regrets-savaging-mick-jagger-his-memoir-36322/”>practically made a second career out of taking pot-shots at his bandmate Mick Jagger — decided to belittle the Beatles’ groundbreaking 1967 album “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” writing it off as “rubbish.”

In an interview with Esquire, Richards opined that the Beatles’ music lacked “roots” and that the group “got carried away.”

“The Beatles sounded great when they were the Beatles. But there’s not a lot of roots in that music.

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