Sgt. Pepper's 50th Anniversary editions to be released May 26, 2017* Anticipation Thread.

I think , Mr Grove, this is part of the Capitol C P and a slow build up to the reissue of " Driving Rain"


Peace and love✌

 

I'm taking bets now as to whether this thread will top the 300-page mark by June 1st.

In fact I'm taking bets as to whether it'll reach the 300-page mark before the official press release about what this release will actually contain gets posted.

 

It's not April 1st?

 

Hopefully, this will be the first of many deluxe releases. If this is happening, there will be more than one configuration. A single disc . . . a deluxe with the original album, 50th version, 5.1, book, a bonus disc with demos, etc and . . . "Carnival of Light" (perfect time, yes?).

If the singles are included in the 50th version, I always thought they'd only work if "Strawberry Fields" followed "Lucy" and "Penny Lane" preceded "Sixty-Four."

 

The article is amusing. The vague details only indicate that the re-release will includes the SFF / Penny Lane tracks.

"Now, according to sources, Apple Corps, the Beatles’ company, has scored a victory: the anniversary relaunch on June 1 will reinstate the tracks, just as Lennon and McCartney had intended."

Victory? Against who?

 

Gave the album the kiss of life( not that it needed it imo).

 

Paul would have to pay the others off handsomely for them to release that. Could happen one day.

 

I'm betting on 300 pages by the end of the day!!

Peace and love✌

 

GM always felt they should be included.
At least from his 1980s mindset/onwards.

 

It might be included too. Patience...

 

I've often brought up this point when discussions come up about sequencing SFF/PL into the album; the aural texture of these two tracks is completely different from those of the album itself. For starters, the percussion-on the single-has a far more fluid sound than the more direct "hardness" of the album.

 

Well, it wouldn't be unprecedented for Apple to do this.
They did the exact same thing with 1+ (remixed, with a bonus disc albeit a DVD in that case).
So reissuing Pepper with a bonus disc to boost sales would follow a previous strategy.

 

Exactly. After setting the standard for decades, now they're gonna be just like everybody else. If they can do this to Sgt. Pepper's, they can do it to any album. And probably will. This is a bad precedent.

 

This could be good as an alternate version, so long as it doesn't replace the original in the catalog, which I can't see happening. Still, it does seem odd to mess with a perfect album by adding bonus tracks, especially songs we've already had forever. It can't be as simple as that, so a remix must be involved to sell it. If it has to be done this way, probably better to have the original on one disc and the alternate mix/bonus tracks on the other.

However, one thing I would definitely be in for would be a nice powerful surround mix. I still remember the first time I played the DVD-A of Love and how blown away I was with the sound. Imagine how a complete Sgt. Pepper's would sound!

 

So who was holding Apple from re-releasing before with the two tracks? Apple?

 

Maybe it won't be the previously-released version of the songs?

 

Against Neil Aspinall, who is likely rolling in his grave and muttering the words: "Too obvious."

 

Some things take time.
Like...huh ...Fifty years time.
Pity !!!

 

Agreed. Only A Northern Song was recorded during the Pepper sessions, and if any bonus material is included, it belongs there, too.

 

well i don't have a Sgt. Pepper Tote bag, so there's is always the possibility Apple wants to celebrate the 50th in a Big way, hope it's "Coming Soon"...

 

Typical APPLE move.

 

I am sure it would be the greatest new discovery since "12 bar Original"

 

I bought the Love 5.1 mix this week and would be thrilled if they offered another 5.1 mix on this release - regardless of whether or not additional tracks are added.

I'd find it interesting if there were alternate versions of tracks released on a separate disc - like a stereo version of 'She's Leaving Home' in its higher pitch / faster speed.

 

Without checking day by day recording sessions I am sure you are right. The decision to release SFF and PL must have been made long before Sgt P was finalised. I guess they could have put them on but at that time Parlophone had not issued a Beatles album in the UK with previously released singles. Sgt P is about 40 minutes long so I guess you could squeeze them in. Aftermath was over 50 minutes long.

 

Maybe Thom Yorke will appreciate it now.