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Someone remixed Sgt Pepper with Star Wars lyrics and it's perfect

Impressive. Most impressive. The Force is definitely with this awesome ‘Star Wars’ parody.

It’s the 40th anniversary of ‘Star Wars’ this year, as well as the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ milestone album, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’. And it looks as though two-man parody band Palette-Swap Ninja has found a way of celebrating both…

The result? An awesome Star Wars / Beatles mash-up.

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‘Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans’ is a tour de force – turning the entire plot of ‘Star Wars: A New Hope’ into lyrics which perfectly match the songs from ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.

Our favourite bit? “You’re all spies with illicit help from your friends…”

It really is as awesome as you’d think.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band as you've never seen it before - Credit: Lucasfilm
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as you’ve never seen it before – Credit: Lucasfilm

“This year marks two important pop-culture milestones: The 40th anniversary of Star Wars on May 25, and the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a week later, June 1,” explained Dan Amrich on the band’s official website. “Our new album merges both into one full-length concept album titled Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans. It’s the entire Beatles album as accurately as we could record it, only now it tells the story of Star Wars: A New Hope — in order.”

According to the band, it took five years to put together…

But why did it take them so long?

“Writing hyper-specific lyrics that match the original songs’ cadences; reverse-engineering everything the Beatles recorded, from distorted saxophone riffs to Indian tabla rhythms; recording everything from scratch and learning as we went — well, that’s what takes five years.”

No small feat, then… but it was definitely worth it.

The entire ‘Princess Leia’s Stolen Death Star Plans’ album is available to download for free over at Palette-Swap Ninja’s website, or you can watch the entire thing (with lyrics) over on YouTube.

It really is as good as it sounds.

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