Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition

The current UK price of £140 is high, although it is reasonably likely to drop before the date of release. For fans in America, with tax deducted, that’s just $86, a saving of over $60 on the US price. We’d love to take you home… SDE on the best dealsĪt the time of writing (2pm BST, 5/4/17) Amazon Italy are offering the best price for the super deluxe edition box set, which is £85 or €98 (shipping to UK is just £3). These are contained within an outer box designed to look like a period EMI tape box, over which slides the classic Peter Blake cover art of Sgt. The content is the same on the DVD and blu-ray, but the latter will offer lossless 5.1 and improved visuals.Īs well as the six discs, this box set will include a 144-page book full of rare images, handwritten lyrics and recording notes, two posters and a replica of the original cardboard cut-out insert. Pepper and 5.1 surround and hi-res stereo mixes of the album, plus Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields Forever. The DVD and Blu-ray include ‘fully restored’ version of the 1992, 50-minute documentary The Making Of Sgt. Pepper – generally the Beatle aficionado’s preferred version – is on the fourth CD with six bonus tracks including what Apple are describing as “the lost version of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” and the Capitol Records Mono Mix of Penny Lane.Ī splendid time is guaranteed… in Surround Sound These ‘session’ discs also feature a new stereo mix of Penny Lane. The first disc features a new stereo remix (not remaster) by Giles Martin and Sam Okell (from the original tapes) and two further CDs of Sgt Pepper sessions with 33 additional recordings from the studio sessions, mixed for the first time from the four-track session tapes, sequenced in chronological order of their recording dates. This multi-disc collection will deliver the landmark album in a number of forms. Let me introduce to you… A dream box for Pepper fans

This will be the very first time Apple have authorised a super deluxe edition box set of a Beatles studio long-player. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as a six-disc super deluxe edition box set, 50 years after the original album was first released. Apple Corps and Universal Music will next month reissue The Beatles‘ 1967 album Sgt.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 50th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition