Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was primarily mixed as a mono album. The younger Martin explains his remix mission in an introductory note: "Why even attempt it? The original Sgt. The Beatles' eighth studio album, it was also their first to be issued with identical track listings in both the United States and United Kingdom. Pepper - as a crystallization of the moment rock-and-roll became art - are still being felt today.Īt its centerpiece, on Disc One of the box set, is Giles Martin and Sam Okell's new stereo mix of the original 1967 album produced by Giles' father George Martin and engineered by Geoff Emerick. This collection reveals that it's possible to hear a classic, arguably over-familiar record with new ears, and that the reverberations of Sgt.
Curating this set was clearly not a task taken lightly by Apple Corps, Capitol Records/UMe, and reissue producers Jonathan Clyde, Guy Hayden, mix producer Giles Martin, and mix engineer Sam Okell. Yet, put simply, this 4-CD/1-DVD/1-BD super deluxe box (also available in smaller CD, 2-CD and 2-LP formats) raises the bar for archival releases. This would be a landmark collection for any number of reasons: that Pepper is routinely considered one of the greatest albums, if not the greatest album, of all time that this is the first-ever "Expanded Edition" of a Beatles album that the entire LP has been startlingly remixed both for stereo and 5.1 surround sound. I read the news today, oh, boy! It's a new day in Pepperland thanks to today's release of the most eagerly-anticipated reissue project of the year: the 50th anniversary deluxe box set of The Beatles' Sgt.
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