The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Deluxe Anniversary Edition) (1967/2017) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

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)