Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Stereo - 2009 remaster)
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- Release date:
- Sep 09, 2009
- Publisher:
- Apple, EMI
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Disc 1
1.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2:03 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar, Lead vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Electric guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Neill Sanders :
- French horn
- James W. Buck :
- French horn
- Tony Randall :
- French horn
- John Burden :
- French horn
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Feb 01, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 02, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 03 & 06, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Mar 06, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
2.
With A Little Help From My Friends
2:44 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Piano, Timpani
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Lead vocals, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Cowbell
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Hammond organ, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Mar 29, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 30, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 07, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
3.
3:29 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Lowrey organ
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Lead vocals
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Lead guitar, Tamboura
- George Martin :
- Piano, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Mar 01, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 02, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 07, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
4.
2:48 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead vocals, Pianet electric piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Congas, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Electric guitar
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Electric guitar, Tamboura
- George Martin :
- Pianet electric piano (?), Piano, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Malcolm Addey :
- Recording engineer
- Ken Townsend :
- Recording engineer
- Peter Vince :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Unknown musician(s) :
- Handclaps
- Session Recording:
- Mar 09, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 10, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 23, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
5.
2:37 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Maracas
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Electric guitar
- George Martin :
- Harpsichord, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Adrian Ibbetson :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Feb 09, 1967
- Studio :
- Regent Sound Studio, London
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 21, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 07, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
6.
3:35 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Lead vocals
- John Lennon :
- Lead vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Stephen Shingles :
- Viola
- John Underwood :
- Viola
- Erich Gruenberg :
- Violin
- Derek Jacobs :
- Violin
- Trevor Williams :
- Violin
- José Luis Garcia :
- Violin
- Dennis Vigay :
- Cello
- Alan Dalziel :
- Cello
- Gordon Pearce :
- Double bass
- Sheila Bromberg :
- Harp
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Mar 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 20, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
7.
Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!
2:38 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Electric guitar
- Ringo Starr :
- Bass harmonica (?), Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Lead vocals, Lowrey organ
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Bass harmonica, Tambourine
- George Martin :
- Glockenspiel, Harmonium, Lowrey organ, Producer, Sound effects
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer, Sound effects
- Mal Evans :
- Bass harmonica
- Neil Aspinall :
- Bass harmonica
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Feb 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 20, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- March 28, 29 & 31, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 07, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
8.
Written by George Harrison
5:05 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Lead vocals, Sitar, Tamboura
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Jack Rothstein :
- Violin
- Neil Aspinall :
- Tamboura
- Ralph Elman :
- Violin
- Jack Greene :
- Violin
- Erich Gruenberg :
- Violin
- Alan Loveday :
- Violin
- Julien Gaillard :
- Violin
- Paul Scherman :
- Violin
- David Wolfsthal :
- Violin
- Reginald Kilbey :
- Cello
- Allen Ford :
- Cello
- Peter Beavan :
- Cello
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Unknown musician(s) :
- Swarmandal
- Anna Joshi :
- Dilruba
- Amrit Gajjar :
- Dilruba
- Natwar Soni :
- Tabla
- Buddhadev Kansara :
- Tamboura
- Session Recording:
- Mar 15, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 22, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Apr 03, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 04, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
9.
2:38 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Lead vocals, Piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Chimes, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Electric guitar
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Robert Burns :
- Clarinet
- Henry MacKenzie :
- Clarinet
- Frank Reidy :
- Clarinet
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Dec 06, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Dec 08, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Dec 20 & 21, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
10.
2:42 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Comb and paper (?), Lead vocals, Piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Backing vocals, Comb and paper (?), Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Comb and paper (?)
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Comb and paper (?)
- George Martin :
- Piano, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Feb 23, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 24, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 07 & 21, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
11.
2:41 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Lead guitar
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Lead vocals, Rhythm guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Barrie Cameron :
- Saxophone
- David Glyde :
- Saxophone
- Alan Holmes :
- Saxophone
- John Lee :
- Trombone
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Unknown musician(s) :
- French horn, Tambourine, Trombone
- Session Recording:
- Feb 08, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 16, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Mar 13, 28 & 29, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 06, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
12.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
1:19 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead vocals, Organ
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Lead vocals, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Lead vocals, Rhythm guitar
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar, Lead vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Unknown musician(s) :
- Maracas
- Session Recording:
- Apr 01, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio One, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 20, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Three, Abbey Road
13.
5:37 • Studio version • B2009 • Stereo • 2009 stereo remaster
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Final piano chord, Lead vocals, Piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Congas, Drums, Final piano chord
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic guitar, Final piano chord, Lead vocals, Tambourine
- George Harrison :
- Maracas
- George Martin :
- Harmonium, Orchestral arrangement, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Jack Brymer :
- Clarinet
- Mal Evans :
- Alarm clock, Final piano chord
- Sidney Sax :
- Violin
- Francesc Gabarró Solé :
- Cello
- Jürgen Hess :
- Violin
- John Underwood :
- Viola
- Alan Civil :
- French horn
- David Mason :
- Trumpet
- Neill Sanders :
- French horn
- Erich Gruenberg :
- Violin
- Granville Delmé Jones :
- Violin
- Bill Monro :
- Violin
- Hans Geiger :
- Violin
- D Bradley :
- Violin
- Lionel Bentley :
- Violin
- David McCallum Sr. :
- Violin
- Donald Weekes :
- Violin
- Henry Datyner :
- Violin
- Ernest Scott :
- Violin
- Gwynne Edwards :
- Viola
- Bernard Davis :
- Viola
- John Meek :
- Viola
- Dennis Vigay :
- Cello
- Alan Dalziel :
- Cello
- Alex Nifosi :
- Cello
- Cyril MacArthur :
- Double bass
- Gordon Pearce :
- Double bass
- John Marston :
- Harp
- Basil Tschaikov :
- Clarinet
- Roger Lord :
- Oboe
- N Fawcett :
- Bassoon
- Alfred Waters :
- Bassoon
- Clifford Seville :
- Flute
- David Sanderman :
- Flute
- Monty Montgomery :
- Trumpet
- Harold Jackson :
- Trumpet
- Raymond Brown :
- Trombone
- Raymond Premru :
- Trombone
- T Moore :
- Trombone
- Michael Barnes :
- Tubas
- Tristan Fry :
- Percussion, Timpani
- Marijke Koger :
- Tambourine
- Guy Massey :
- Remastering
- Steve Rooke :
- Remastering
- Allan Rouse :
- Project co-ordinator
- Session Recording:
- Jan 19, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Jan 20, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- Feb 03, 10 and 22, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 23, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
14.
Written by Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, John Lennon, George Harrison
0:02 • Studio version
- Paul McCartney :
- Noises, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Noises, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Noises, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Noises, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Engineer
- Session Recording:
- Apr 21, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
About
From the liner notes:
Historical Notes
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was The Beatles’ eighth album in just over four years. The frequency of their releases seems startling now but as the ten months between Revolver and this LP passed by, there was much speculation about the perceived long delay. In fact, the group had abandoned concerts and were dedicating themselves solely to songwriting and prolongs work in the studio. Released on 1st June, 1967, the immediate artistic and commercial success of Sgt. Pepper vindicated this new approach adopted by The Beatles. It was the LP that provided the ubiquitous soundtrack to ‘the summer of love’ but its appeal is timeless.
The previous summer The Beatles had raced to finish recording Revolver – completing the last song just three days before the start of the tour that visited West Germany, Japan and the Philippines. Some tense encounters in Asia – and also on summer tour of the USA and Canada – rocked their already shaky commitment to touring. Besides, their concerts were musically out of sync with their recent innovative records – not one song from the current LP Revolver was played onstage during the North American tour.
The frustration of repeating their old repertoire to screaming fans, who could not hear them anyway, when added to the other pressures on the road in the summer of 1966, led the group to decide that the concert on 29th August at Candlestick Park, San Francisco would be their last. They now became a studio group with no concern about how to replicate their records in concert. In their first session for five months, The Beatles began recording ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’. Its evolution showed the musical imagination and technical experimentation of the previous album would be continued. Things were not always complex, of course, because the other new recording at this time was the much more straightforward ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’. In the last days of the year, work began on ‘Penny Lane’. To stop the long wait since August for new material, ‘Penny Lane’ and ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ were released in February, 1967 on a double A-sided single.
In the UK, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band became the fourth Beatles album from which no singles were taken during the 1960s. remarkably, this was also the case in the USA where – also for the first time – the LP’s track listing was exactly the same as in the UK. The only American alteration was the removal of the high pitch tone and garbled speech embedded in the run-out groove. An initial run of 148 weeks in the British album chart included a total of 27 weeks at number one between June, 1967 and February, 1968 (it was interrupted occasionally by The Sound Of Music soundtrack album and Val Doonican Rocks But Gently). In the USA it remained at number one for fifteen of its initial run of 88 weeks in the Top 200.
Even before Sgt. Pepper was released, The Beatles had started work on the title track of their next project, the TV film Magical Mystery Tour.
Recording Notes
Produced by George Martin
Orchestrations by George Martin
Principal Engineer: Geoff Emerick
The Beatles’ recording grew more adventurous and innovative with every album release. Built on the experience and knowledge gained while making the ground-breaking Revolver, the inspirational work by The Beatles and George Martin on the next album showed the world what could be achieved in a recording studio.
More often than not, the imaginative arrangements required more tracks than were available on one four-track tape. The solution was to create extra tracks by copying the first four tracks to a second blank tape and simultaneously combining some of them to leave free as many tracks as were needed for additional overdubs. The need for more tracks reached a peak on Sgt. Pepper with ‘Getting Better’ requiring ‘bouncing down’ no less than three times.
The Beatles began work on ‘Getting Better’ on 9th March, 1967. First, the rhythm section of bass, drums, guitar and ‘Pianet’ electric piano was recorded on all four tracks. These were mixed together onto one track of a new tape, which left three tracks available for overdubs. Additional drums and bass were recorded on track two and double-tracked on track three; the final free track was used for a tamboura drone and piano. When copying to a third tape, the two bass and drum tracks were combined to one track and the tamboura and piano track was mixed in with the rhythm section. This left two tracks to record a double-tracked lead vocal, harmonies and handclaps. This third tape was then copied to a fourth tape to allow the two vocal tracks to be combined into one, creating a track for a guitar overdub. At the end of this protracted process, ten unique tracks had been used to complete the song.
Revolver had seen the introduction of Artificial/Automatic Double Tracking and this was also used throughout Sgt. Pepper. The sessions for the album also marked the first use of DI (Direct Injection) boxes. For example, on ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ Paul’s bass guitar was connected directly to the mixing desk rather than being recorded by a microphone in front of a speaker cabinet. There was also the speeding up and slowing down of tapes during recording and mixing, which altered the tempo and pitch of a voice, instrument or whole song. This is particularly evident in the sound of Paul’s voice on ‘When I’m Sixty-Four’.
The Beatles had worked during the night on several occasions when making Revolver but nocturnal recordings became the norm for Sgt. Pepper. No session ever began before 7:00pm and could sometimes finish as late – or early – as 6:00 or 7:00 in the morning. Their experimental and painstaking approach meant that it took nearly 400 hours to complete the LP – an astonishing amount of work for an album at that time.
This remastered album has been created from the original stereo analogue master tapes.
Remastered by Guy Massey and Steve Rooke.
Project Co-ordinator: Allan Rouse
Thanks to Simon Gibson
Historical Notes: Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley
Recording Notes: Allan Rouse and Kevin Howlett
Project Management for EMI Records Ltd: Wendy Day and Guy Hayden
All songs published by Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC.
Digital Remaster © 2009 The copyright in the sound recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd. © 2009 EMI Records Ltd. This label copy information is the subject of copyright protection. All rights reserved.
Artwork © 2009 Apple Corps Ltd. All photographs © Apple Corps Ltd.
All photographs taken at Chelsea Manor Studios, London, March, 1967, except where otherwise stated.
Album Redesign: Drew Lorimer
Photo Retouching: Gavin O’Neill
Photo editing and research: Aaron Bremner and Dorcas Lynn