The Beatles ‎Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts 50th Anniversary Boxset 4CD Blu-ray DVD

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CDs come in replica of original LP Sleeve. This extensive collection gives an unprecedented insight into how The Beatles made their ground-breaking album. The box set features a new stereo version by Giles Martin and 33 tracks from the Sgt. Pepper sessions that place you in the studio as the group develop the songs.   4 AUDIO CDs: A new stereo mix of the album by Giles Martin. Sgt. Pepper Sessions on 2 CDs – with over 100 minutes of audio illustrating how the album was created. Newly mixed from the original four-track tapes, most of the material is previously unreleased. Also contains the original 1967 mono mix of the album and bonus tracks including three previously unreleased mixes.   BLU-RAY/DVD: Fully restored 1992 documentary The Making of Sgt. Pepper, including interviews with Paul, George and Ringo and fascinating in-the-studio footage introduced by George Martin. Restored promotional films for ‘A Day In The Life’, ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Penny Lane’. 2017 Giles Martin 5.1 surround sound mix and high-resolution stereo audio in 96KHz/24bit of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band plus ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Penny Lane’.

This comprehensive six-disc boxed set features: 

CD1 : New stereo album mix.

CDs2 and 3 : 33 additional recordings from the studio sessions, most previously unreleased and mixed for the first time from the four-track session tapes, sequenced in chronological order of their recording dates. A new stereo mix of Penny Lane and the 2015 stereo mix of Strawberry Fields Forever. 

CD 4: Direct transfers of the album’s original mono mix and the Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane singles. Capitol Records’ U.S. promotional mono single mix of Penny Lane. Previously unreleased early mono mixes of She’s Leaving Home, A Day In The Life, and Lucy In The Sky With Diamond (a mix thought to have been erased from a tape in 1967, but discovered during archive research for the anniversary edition)

Discs 5 and 6 (Blu-ray and DVD): New 5.1 surround audio mixes of the album and Penny Lane by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, plus their 2015 5.1 surround mix of Strawberry Fields Forever. High resolution audio versions of the new stereo mixes of the album and Penny Lane and of the 2015 stereo mix of Strawberry Fields Forever. Video features: 4K restored original promotional films for Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, and A Day In The Life; plus The Making of Sgt. Pepper, a restored, previously unreleased documentary film (broadcast in 1992), featuring insightful interviews with McCartney, Harrison, and Starr, and in-studio footage introduced by George Martin. 

Housed in a 12-inch by 12-inch box with lenticular artwork and two bonus posters, the six-disc Super Deluxe set is presented with a 144-page hardcover book. The book includes new introductions by Paul McCartney and Giles Martin, and chapters covering comprehensive song-by-song details and recording information, the design of the cover, the album’s musical innovations and its historical context by Beatles historian, author and radio producer Kevin Howlett; composer and musicologist Howard Goodall; music producer and writer Joe Boyd; and journalists Ed Vulliamy and Jeff Slate, illustrated with rare photographs, reproductions of handwritten lyrics, Abbey Road Studios documentation, and original Sgt Pepper print ads.