Pepper, there were no rules to follow - rock and pop bands could try anything, for better or worse. Ironically, few tried to achieve the sweeping, all-encompassing embrace of music as the Beatles did here. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band always has been treated differently than the rest of the Beatles catalog. On December 15, the Deluxe Anniversary Edition of The Beatles’ 1967 masterwork, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, will debut worldwide in high definition digital audio (96kHz/24bit). The Deluxe Anniversary Edition features the album’s acclaimed 2017 stereo mix, plus 18 additional tracks, including complete alternate takes for the. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1971 Vinyl release of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band on Discogs.
The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) (1967/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:39:57 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Universal Music
On December 15, the Deluxe Anniversary Edition of The Beatles’ 1967 masterwork, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, will debut worldwide in high definition digital audio (96kHz/24bit). The Deluxe Anniversary Edition features the album’s acclaimed 2017 stereo mix, plus 18 additional tracks, including complete alternate takes for the groundbreaking album’s 13 songs, newly mixed in stereo. The expanded edition also features the 2017 stereo mix and an instrumental take of “Penny Lane” and the 2015 stereo mix and two complete alternate takes for “Strawberry Fields Forever.”
The album is newly mixed by Giles Martin and Sam Okell in stereo, sourced directly from the four-track masters and guided by the original, Beatles-preferred mono mix produced by his father, George Martin.
How to better a record like Revolver? Sign off another by the name of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. For many, this is truly the greatest pop and rock music of all time, if not one of the most significant works of art in popular culture from the second half of the twentieth century… After discovering the endless possibilities offered to them in the recording studio, John, Paul, George and Ringo continue their crazy musical experiments. More than ever considered as the ‘fifth Beatle’, producer George Martin runs out a magic carpet of discoveries that would go on to influence the future of pop. When this eighth studio album is released in June 1967, the era is one that has embraced the all-out psychedelic, and this concept album is a true hallucinatory trip (not only for Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds). Like the patchwork of his mythical pocket, Sergeant Pepper’s journeys through pure pop, manly rock’n’roll, totally trippy sequences (to near worldly scales), retro songs of nursery rhymes, animal noises and even classical music! On the composition side, the duo of Lennon/McCartney is at the top of its game, delivering new songs that are still influential today.
Tracklist:
CD1
01. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Remix)
02. With A Little Help From My Friends (Remix)
03. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Remix)
04. Getting Better (Remix)
05. Fixing A Hole (Remix)
06. She’s Leaving Home (Remix)
07. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Remix)
08. Within You Without You (Remix)
09. When I’m Sixty-Four (Remix)
10. Lovely Rita (Remix)
11. Good Morning Good Morning (Remix)
12. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Remix)
13. A Day In The Life (Remix)
CD2
01. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Take 9 And Speech)
02. With A Little Help From My Friends (Take 1 / False Start And Take 2 / Instrumental)
03. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Take 1)
04. Getting Better (Take 1 / Instrumental And Speech At The End)
05. Fixing A Hole (Speech And Take 3)
06. She’s Leaving Home (Take 1 / Instrumental)
07. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite! (Take 4)
08. Within You Without You (Take 1 / Indian Instruments)
09. 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) (Speech And Take 8)
13. A Day In The Life (Take 1 With Hums)
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)
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It was 50 years ago today that the Sgt. Pepper’sLonely Hearts Club Band photo shoot took place.
Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of the taking of the famous photo that would grace the cover of the album that features tracks such as “When I’m Sixty Four,” “With a Little Help From My Friends,” “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.” The album — which took a little over three months to produce, over four to six sessions a week — sold 2.5 million copies in its first three months, TIME reported in a 1967 cover story, after it hit record stores on June 1, 1967.
The album cover featured a Pop-Edwardian design by English Painter Peter Blake and his wife Jann Haworth, with a star-studded crowd — including eight Beatles — gathered around a grave.
“Eight? Well, four of them, standing around looking like wax dummies, are indeed wax models of the Beatles as most people remember them: nicely brushed long hair, dark suits, faces like sassy choirboys,” TIME observed. “The other four Beatles are very much alive: thin, hippie-looking, mustachioed, bedecked in bright, bizarre uniforms. Though their expressions seem subdued, their eyes glint with a new awareness tinged with a little of the old mischief. As for the grave in the foreground: it has THE BEATLES spelled out in flowers trimmed with marijuana plants.”
The rest of the crowd included Marilyn Monroe, Karl Marx, Edgar Allan Poe, Albert Einstein, Lawrence of Arabia, Mae West, Sonny Listen and many others.
“To help us get into the character of Sgt. Pepper’s band, we started to think about who our heroes might be,” Paul McCartney later reflected, when the band members and their colleagues’ reflections on how the fantastic image came about were brought together inThe Beatles Anthology. “It got to be anyone we liked.”
Record manager Neil Aspinall went to different libraries to get prints of those people, which Blake blew up and tinted to construct a collage.
“We went for bright, psychedelic colours, a bit like the fluorescent socks you used to get in the Fifties (they came in very pink very turquoise, or very yellow),” McCartney said in the book. “At the back of our minds, I think the plan was to have garish uniforms which would actually go against the idea of uniform.”
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The label was also worried that the celebrities would object to the use of their images on the cover and sue, so each celebrity was contacted for permission. The only one who didn’t give it was Leo Gorcey of the Bowery Boys, who wanted to be paid $500.
In this case, judging something by its cover is accurate. “With characteristic self-mockery, the Beatles are proclaiming that they have snuffed out their old selves to make room for the new Beatles incarnate, and there is some truth to it. ” TIME declared in its Sep. 22, 1967, cover story on how the rock band was revolutionizing pop music. “Without having lost any of the genial anarchism with which they helped revolutionize the life style of young people in Britain, Europe and the U.S., they have moved on to a higher artistic plateau.”