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Remasterings of so-called heritage rock, never released at bargain prices, have sound that is inevitably described as being a bit brighter and slightly more three-dimensional than the originals. The remastering phenomenon, which crested in 2009 with the much-praised remastering of the Beatles' entire catalog, has grown predictable. Pepper's is an embryonic example of an album whose songs do seem deliberately sequenced to tell a story.Īs for these much-ballyhooed Anniversary Editions, it's important to keep in mind that this is a remix, not a remastering. Although Ringo Starr has said that everyone called it a "concept album" only because it had the same song at the beginning and at the end, Sgt. Along with a certain background tension that can be felt in lines like "Getting better all time the time / It can't get no worse," the group's penchant for experimentalism ran wild, creating in its wake an eternally fresh-sounding masterpiece of poppy, psychedelic art-rock music that owed much to the English dance-hall and vaudeville traditions. Released in 1967, the band's eighth album and the first produced by the group after their retirement from live performances, unleashed the band's creative impulses because it's assumed, somewhere, subconsciously at least, the band knew they would never have to play any of it live. And despite troubled and troubling lyrics in spots, perhaps the most magical Beatles record of all will always be Sgt. In describing the Beatles' music, magic is never too hyperbolic a word. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Anniversary Edition is a welcome and wonderful conglomeration of music and information, old and new, about this landmark recording. While the three double-CD volumes of Anthology contained some of this material—and bootlegs had the rest—the release of Sgt. Given the value of the band's recorded legacy, it was only a matter of time before even Macca, who over the years has made cryptic and patently false statements about scraping the bottom of the barrel, would get behind new stereo mixes and the long-awaited official release of alternates and outtakes. ADD? TT: 3:23:11 (CDs only)Įven VIP visitors to Abbey Road studios are allowed to only peer down a dimly lit hallway to the vault where the Beatles tapes, arguably the UK's most valuable crown jewels, are meticulously stored. Miles Showell, Sean Magee, mastering Matthew Cocker, transfer eng. Jonathan Clyde, Guy Hayden, project prods. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: Anniversary Edition