'Tobacco Reference' Gets Sgt Pepper 'T' for Teen in Rock Band
Someone's missing the point.
Oi, Ringo! Put that historical embarrassment out!
There's a lyric in A Day in the Life, the last song on the ancient (and revered in some quarters), Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band LP that goes: "found my way upstairs and had a smoke". This has apparently lead to the ESRB in the USA giving the next slice of DLC for Beatles Rock Band a 'T' for 'Teen' rating due to "Tobacco Reference".
Someone at the ratings board apparently thinks that The Beatles were referring to smoking roll-ups made from old shag rather than Red Lebanese cannabis in the form of 'reefer' or 'spiff'. How history is revised.
Anyway, having escaped a more stringent rating, the latest DLC for the game is indeed the LP with the gatefold sleeve that was used to roll-up 'tobacco cigarettes' by millions of hippies back in the late 1960s.
Well, actually, given that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Getting Better, and Good Morning Good Morning from the LP are already included on the original game, what's actually happening is that Fixing A Hole, She’s Leaving Home, Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Within You Without You, When I’m Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) and A Day In The Life are coming out. These are priced at $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each individual track.
They'll be available for Xbox 360 on November 17th and PlayStation 3 on November 19th and Wii November 17th.
If, for some reason you want to buy the Complete Album Pack... this will cost: $13.49 USD, £7.49, €8.99 or 1,080 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360.
Someone at the ratings board apparently thinks that The Beatles were referring to smoking roll-ups made from old shag rather than Red Lebanese cannabis in the form of 'reefer' or 'spiff'. How history is revised.
Anyway, having escaped a more stringent rating, the latest DLC for the game is indeed the LP with the gatefold sleeve that was used to roll-up 'tobacco cigarettes' by millions of hippies back in the late 1960s.
Well, actually, given that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, With A Little Help From My Friends, Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds, Getting Better, and Good Morning Good Morning from the LP are already included on the original game, what's actually happening is that Fixing A Hole, She’s Leaving Home, Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!, Within You Without You, When I’m Sixty-Four, Lovely Rita, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) and A Day In The Life are coming out. These are priced at $1.99 USD, £.99 UK, €1.49 EU (160 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360) per each individual track.
They'll be available for Xbox 360 on November 17th and PlayStation 3 on November 19th and Wii November 17th.
If, for some reason you want to buy the Complete Album Pack... this will cost: $13.49 USD, £7.49, €8.99 or 1,080 Microsoft Points for Xbox 360.
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GTCA 13 Nov 2009 17:16
1/3
what about the supposed LSD reference in Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds? is the ESRB in denial about anything harder than tabaco?
YenRug 16 Nov 2009 15:59
2/3
@GTCA
I take it you're not familiar with the fact that Julian Lennon's childhood friend was actually called Lucy, then? Nor that, reputedly, he came home one day and told his father, John, that "Lucy flew through sky like diamonds"?
Have a look online, there are interviews with Lucy out there; it does seem that the L.S.D. is just coincidence, after all.
I take it you're not familiar with the fact that Julian Lennon's childhood friend was actually called Lucy, then? Nor that, reputedly, he came home one day and told his father, John, that "Lucy flew through sky like diamonds"?
Have a look online, there are interviews with Lucy out there; it does seem that the L.S.D. is just coincidence, after all.
Josh Truman 20 Nov 2009 22:02
3/3
Dude shut up, I love pot.