Czesław Niemen

Czesław Niemen was a polish singer, song writer and rock balladeer born in 1939 in Stare Wasiliszki. He was making music from 1967 to 2001. He played  rock & roll, psychedelic rock, progressive rock, folk music,avant-garde jazz, electronic music. He sang maily in polish language.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTjLZwpmufw 

 Czesław Niemen was an artist whose music was charizmatic for polish people mainly because of his uncommon voice which made his performens realy dramatic and moving. Moreover , one of the Niemen's song Dziwny jest ten świat/ Strange is this World refers to political  situation in the world and become an  unofficial anthem for protesting polish youth.

In my opinion it has udeniably something in common with the song All you Need is Love - The Beatels which also encourage people to  make love not war and become an anthem of hippies.

charakteristic design

Graphics from the fronts of the albums have a characteristic for the 60s bright colours and fluid, variable font.On one of the albums we can even see an artist dressed in hippie jacket , red trousers and with hairstyle similar to singers from the band The Beatels.

English translation of the song Dziwny jest ten świat

  http://lyrics-translations.com/song/show/366792/czesaw-niemen/lyrics-and-translation-dziwny-jest-ten-wiat/

Sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band

Sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band is one of the most important studio album made by The Beatles.
It has been recorded between autumn 1966 and spring 1967 - just before the Summer of love. And it changed the world of music. The album won a countless of awards and is one of the most popular selling album in the history. The songs which appeared in the album :

1	"Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
2	"With a Little Help from My Friends”
3	„Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”
4	„Getting Better”
5	„Fixing a Hole”
6	"She’s Leaving Home”
7	"Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!”
8	„Within You Without You”
9	„When I'm Sixty-Four”
10	„Lovely Rita”
11	„Good Morning Good Morning”
12	"Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)”
13	„A Day in the Life”

The music is very unpredictable and diffrent from other albums of the band. That's mainly because of the fact that Sgt. Peppers ... is only a studio album and was never performed in live. The musicians wasn't afraid to experiment with a lots of instruments. The whole album starts  with 10 seconds of the combined sounds of a pit orchestra warming up and an audience waiting for a concert, introducing the illusion of the album as a live performance. It makes for me a bit chaotic illusion but also makes it more unique. In album we can also hear a bit of exotic instruments which makes songs for me much more sophisticated and interesting.

My favourite song from the album is definietly "Lucy in the Sky of Diamonds". It is told that the song was inspired by the John Lennon's son drawing. Although some people suspend that the first letters of each of the title nouns intentionally spelled LSD. And that the song establish to drug use.

Undeniably .Sgt Pepper’s is at once warm and familiar, yet wild and strange; cosy and English with a very empirical eye on the exotica of the East. Probably it is why it is so timeless.

Yellow Submarine

Yellow Submarine was realesed for the first time in 1968. It was animated feature film based on The Beatles music and directed by George Dunning. 

As in many musicals films , the music takes precedence over the actual plot, and most of the story is a series of set-pieces designed to present Beatles music set to various images. The songs  include "Yellow Submarine," "Eleanor Rigby," "All Together Now," "Nowhere Man," "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," "All You Need Is Love" and (in a live-action coda) the Beatles in person wisecracking and singing "All Together Now."

What mostly caught my attention during the film is eccentric , colorful animation.
The whole film is maintained in psychedelic atmosphere which for me is much to overwhelming. Definietely there is something true in the observation attributed to Ken Kesey: "They say it looks better when you're stoned. But that's true of all movies." The simple explaination to that grotesque is that the film's art director was Heinz Edelmann who was strongly inspired by Peter Max (one of the most famous pop art artist). 

Nevetheless , this film which for me was so tiring to watched , paved the way for Terry Gilliam's animations for Do Not Adjust Your Set and Monty Python's Flying Circus, as well as the Schoolhouse Rock vignettes for ABC and similar looking animation in early seasons of Sesame Street and The Electric Company.

 To sum up , I don't think that I would ever watch The Yellow Submarine again but I can't deny that it clarly had a great influence on future generations.