Beatles, The | Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary | CD 293

It was 50 years ago when The Beatles' John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr astonished and delighted the world, ushering in the Summer of Love with Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork that became popular music's most universally
acclaimed album. The album is newly mixed by Giles Martin and engineer Sam Okell in stereo, sourced directly from the four-track masters at Abbey Road Studios in London, and guided by the original, Beatles-preferred mono mix produced by his father, George Martin.

This expanded 2CD package features the new stereo album mix on the first CD and adds a second CD of 18 tracks, including previously unreleased alternate takes of each of the album's 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo and sequenced in the same order as the album. The second CD also includes a new stereo mix and a previously unreleased instrumental take of 'Penny Lane,' and the 2015 stereo mix and two previously unreleased alternate takes of 'Strawberry Fields Forever.'

TRACKLIST

DISC 1

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

DISC 2

1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9)
2. With a Little Help from My Friends (Take 1 - False Start and Take 2 - Instrumental)
3. Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (Take 1)
4. Getting Better (Take 1 - Instrumental and Speech at the End)
5. Fixing a Hole (Speech and Take 3)
6. She's Leaving Home (Take 1 - Instrumental)
7. Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Take 4)
8. Within You Without You (Take 1 - Indian Instruments)
9. When I'm Sixty-four (Take 2)
10. Lovely Rita (Speech and Take 9)
11. Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8)
12. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) [take 8]
13. A Day in the Life (Take 1 With Hummed Last Chord)
14. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7)
15. Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)
16. Strawberry Fields Forever (Stereo Mix - 2015)
17. Penny Lane (Take 6 - Instrumental)
18. Penny Lane (Stereo Mix - 2017)