The sessions are the heart of the box, but Giles Martin’s new mixes are eye-opening too. Kite!” - take shape as the Beatles and producer George Martin work them out is often fascinating, though it does become a bit tedious at times, especially when certain songs didn’t change much from inception to release. Hearing songs - particularly “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “A Day in the Life,” but also highlights like “Penny Lane” and “Being for the Benefit of Mr. The most revealing cuts fall somewhere in between: the five takes of “Strawberry Fields Forever” that chart its evolution the first stab at “A Day in the Life,” with the famous final chord hummed rather than played on pianos the earliest take of “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” and an instrumental version of “Within You Without You” featuring various Indian instruments.Īt times, the Anniversary Edition drops listeners right into the studio with the group.
Maybe not as extensive as a similar collection assembled by one of the Beatles’ main competitors, the Beach Boys, whose own classic “Pet Sounds” sessions box collected hours of alternate takes, studio chatter and false starts, but the breadth of material collected on the four audio CDs (the other two discs contain new surround mixes and video programming) is astounding: a 2017 stereo remix, the original mono mixes of the album and the “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “Penny Lane” and, best of all, more than 30 tracks from the sessions that chart the growth of the album’s songs from near demos to near completion. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band: Anniversary Edition, the Beatles aim to have the final word on the matter. From the classic double-hit single that began the album’s sessions to the final sustained note that ends the LP, there isn’t much left of the Beatles’ most celebrated record that the group’s most devoted fans don’t know.Įven the countless hours of studio time that went into the making of the album have been documented on many bootlegs and even an official release in the 50 years since Sgt. It’s been picked apart and written about to death, with every note of its nearly 40 minutes scrutinized. There are few albums in rock ‘n’ roll history as sacred and as legendary as Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles.
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