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Related sessions
This album has been recorded during the following studio sessions
Recording "A Day In The Life" #1
Jan 19, 1967
Recording "A Day In The Life" #2
Jan 20, 1967
Recording "A Day In The Life" #3
Feb 03, 1967
Recording "Good Morning Good Morning"
Feb 08, 1967
Feb 09, 1967
Recording and mixing "Good morning good morning"
Feb 16, 1967
Recording "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite!"
Feb 17, 1967
Feb 21, 1967
Feb 24, 1967
Mar 07, 1967
Mar 09, 1967
Mar 10, 1967
Recording "Good Morning Good Morning"
Mar 13, 1967
Recording "Within You Without You"
Mar 15, 1967
Recording "She's Leaving Home"
Mar 17, 1967
Recording and mixing "She's Leaving Home"
Mar 20, 1967
Recording and mixing "Within You Without You"
Mar 22, 1967
Recording "With A Little Help From My Friends"
Mar 30, 1967
Recording and mixing "Within You Without You"
Apr 03, 1967
Mixing "Within You Without You"
Apr 04, 1967
Mixing "Good Morning Good Morning"
Apr 06, 1967
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Track list
Side 1
1.
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2:03 • Studio version • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead guitar, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums
- John Lennon :
- Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Organ, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Neil Sanders :
- French horn
- James W Buck :
- French horn
- Tony Randall :
- French horn
- John Burden :
- French horn
- Session Recording:
- Feb 01, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Feb 02, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Mar 03, 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Piano
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Cowbell
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Hammond organ, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Mar 29, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Lowrey organ
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Maracas
- John Lennon :
- Lead guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Backing vocals, Lead guitar, Tambura
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Mar 01, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass guitar, Piano, Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Congas, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Handclaps
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar, Tambura
- George Martin :
- Pianette, Piano, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Malcolm Addey :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Mar 09, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Mar 10, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Mar 21, 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Lead and backing vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Maracas
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Harpsichord, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Adrian Ibbetson :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Feb 09, 1967
- Studio :
- Regent Sound Studio, London
- Session Recording:
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Lead vocals
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, 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
- Session Recording:
- Mar 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Acoustic guitar, Bass guitar
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Harmonica, Shaker bells
- John Lennon :
- Lowrey organ, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Harmonica
- George Martin :
- Hammond organ, Harmonium, Piano, Producer, Tape loops
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer, Tape loops
- Mal Evans :
- Bass harmonica
- Neil Aspinall :
- Harmonica
- Session Recording:
- Feb 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- 28, 29, 31 March 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 • B • Stereo
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic guitar, Sitar, Tambura, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Jack Rothstein :
- Violin
- Neil Aspinall :
- Tambura
- 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
- Session Recording:
- Mar 15, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Mar 22, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Piano, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Chimes, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Backing vocals, Guitar
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Robert Burns :
- Clarinet
- Henry MacKenzie :
- Clarinet
- Frank Reidy :
- Clarinet
- Session Recording:
- Dec 06, 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Overdubs:
- 8,20,21 Dec 1966
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Apr 17, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
10.
2:42 • Studio version • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Comb and paper, Piano, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Comb and paper, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Backing vocals, Comb and paper
- George Harrison :
- Acoustic rhythm guitar, Backing vocals, Comb and paper
- George Martin :
- Piano, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Session Recording:
- Feb 23, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Feb 24, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
- Session Recording:
- Mar 07, 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Backing vocals, Bass, Lead guitar
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Tambourine
- John Lennon :
- Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Backing vocals, Lead guitar
- George Martin :
- Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Barrie Cameron :
- Saxophone
- David Glyde :
- Saxophone
- Alan Holmes :
- Saxophone
- John Lee :
- 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:
- 13, 28, 29 March 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass guitar, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Drums, Maracas, Tambourine, Vocals
- John Lennon :
- Rhythm guitar, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Lead guitar, Vocals
- George Martin :
- Organ, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- 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 • B • Stereo
- Paul McCartney :
- Bass, Piano, Vocals
- Ringo Starr :
- Bongos, Drums
- John Lennon :
- Acoustic guitar, Piano, Vocals
- George Harrison :
- Maracas
- George Martin :
- Harmonium, Producer
- Geoff Emerick :
- Recording engineer
- Jack Brymer :
- Clarinet
- Mal Evans :
- Alarm clock, Piano, Vocals
- Sidney Sax :
- Violin
- Francisco Gabarro :
- Cello
- Jürgen Hess :
- Violin
- John Underwood :
- Viola
- Alan Civil :
- French horn
- David Mason :
- Trumpet
- Neil Sanders :
- French horn
- Erich Gruenberg :
- Violin
- Granville Jones :
- Violin
- Bill Monro :
- Violin
- Hans Geiger :
- Violin
- D Bradley :
- Violin
- Lionel Bentley :
- Violin
- David McCallum :
- 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
- 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:
- 3,10,22 Feb 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Abbey Road
- Session Mixing:
- Feb 23, 1967
- Studio :
- EMI Studios, Studio Two, Abbey Road
About
Paul McCartney, in MOJO, July 2004:
Didn’t Pepper coincide with your cocaine period?
That’s true yeah. I did coke for about a year around that time. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. At first it seemed, OK, like anything that’s new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking, ‘’mmm, this is not so cool an idea,’’ especially when you start getting those come-downs. But, around the time of Pepper, we were all into one thing or another. We would sneak stuff into the studio, and we had to hide it from George Martin. George, bless him, was such a gentleman, so we´d never do anything like that in front of him. It was only later that we told him that some of the later albums had been drug-influenced. He had no idea. […]
There’s a wonderful evocative story about how The Beatles finishes Pepper and took the just-completed tapes over to Mama Cass’ flat in Chelsea, plating the album at the top volume just as dawn was breaking so that the entire neighborhood woke up to it.
It’s a dim recollection but I think that’s true, yea. The weekend we finished the album is bit of a blur. I just remember that we all felt so exhilarated. Pepper had taken six months to make – longer than any other album. When we first heard it back, we knew we’d pulled it off. We’d made something a little bit special something that would blow people’s minds. It was mind-blowing for us. To us, it wasn’t so much that it was a great album musically. It was more that it was an anthem for our generation. It was an album that marked the times and summed up the times. As it turned out., Pepper led the times as much as it marked the times. To get the grips with it, you had to spend time with it. It was influential in lots of ways, and not just musically. Suddenly, music writers had to find new ways to respond because, suddenly they weren’t dealing with Perry Como or whatever.
Paul McCartney, about the album sleeve:
We all just chose oddball things from everywhere and put them together. We all chose our own colours and our own materials: ‘You can’t have that, he’s having it…’
[…] We liked the idea of reaching out to the record-buyer, because of our memories of spending our own hard-earned cash and really loving anyone who gave us value for money.
Preparing to shoot the “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album cover – from thebeatles.com
‘The Beatles And The Lonely Hearts Club Band’ – from thebeatles.com
Last updated on June 24, 2017
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