Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It is the last album the group started recording, although Let It Be was the last album completed before the band's break-up in April 1970.

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First CD reissue of the album.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (often referred to simply as Sgt. Pepper) is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. Released on 26 May 1967, Sgt. Pepper is regarded by musicologists as an early concept album that advanced the roles of sound composition, extended form, psychedelic imagery, record sleeves, and the producer in popular music. The album had an immediate cross-generational impact and was associated with numerous touchstones of the era's youth culture, such as fashion, drugs, mysticism, and a sense of optimism and empowerment. Critics lauded the album for its innovations in songwriting, production and graphic design, for bridging a cultural divide between popular music and high art, and for reflecting the interests of contemporary youth and the counterculture.

«Before Sgt. Pepper, no one seriously thought of rock music as actual art. That all changed in 1967, though, when John, Paul, George and Ringo (with "A Little Help" from their friend, producer George Martin) created an undeniable work of art which remains, after 30-plus years, one of the most influential albums of all time. From Lennon's evocative word/sound pictures (the trippy "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," the carnival-like "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite") and McCartney's music hall-styled "When I'm 64," to Harrison's Eastern-leaning "Within You Without You," and the avant-garde mini-suite, "A Day in the Life," Sgt. Pepper was a milestone for both '60s music and popular culture. --Billy Altman»

Credits:

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – EMI Records Ltd.
Copyright © – EMI Records Ltd.
Artwork [Cover Staged By] – Jann Haworth, Peter Blake (4)
Artwork [Cover] – M C Productions, The Apple
Artwork [Wax Figures] – Madame Tussauds
Design – Paul Wilkinson (3)
Design Concept [Cd Packaging Design Idea] – Kathryn Varley
Engineer [Recording] – Geoff Emerick
Engineer [Second] – Richard Lush (tracks: 1 to 8, 10 to 13)
Liner Notes – Peter Blake (4)
Liner Notes [Quote] – George Martin
Liner Notes [Words] – Mark Lewisohn
Photography By [Cover] – Michael Cooper (8)
Producer – George Martin
Written-By – Lennon/McCartney* (tracks: 1 to 7, 9 to 13)
℗ 1967 Original Sound Recordings made by EMI Records Ltd.
© 1967 EMI Records Ltd.
© 1987 EMI Records Ltd.

Made in the U.K. (on back cover). Made in Italy (on CD).

Comes in a jewel case enclosed in a cardboard box with a 28 page booklet including Sgt. Pepper's cut-outs.

Track 1 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 10.
Track 2 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 29, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 3 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 8.
Track 4 recording started in studio 2 at abbey Road on March 9, 1967. Album version mixed from take 15.
Track 5 recording started at Regent Sound Studio, Tottemham Court Road, London on February 21, 1967 and later completed at Abbey Road. Album version mixed from take 3.
Track 6 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 7 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 17, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 8 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on March 22, 1967. Album version mixed from take 2.
Track 9 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on December 6, 1966. Album version mixed from take 4.
Track 10 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey road on February 23, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 11 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on February 8, 1967. Album version mixed from take 11.
Track 12 recording started in studio 1 at Abbey Road on April 1, 1967. Album version mixed from take 9.
Track 13 recording started in studio 2 at Abbey Road on January 19, 1967. Album version mixed from takes 6 & 7.

Black and white photograph courtesy of the Michael Cooper Collection.

The rear of the booklet states all tracks except 8 are by Lennon/McCartney, but the liner notes are more specific.

This superb compilation, often called "the red album", brings together the majority of the Beatles' hits from the earlyto mid '60s. Consequently, it plays like an overview of thesome of the most popular and indelible rock songs of all time. From the "yeah, yeah, yeah"'s of "She Loves You" throughthe amped-up giddiness of "I Want to Hold Your Hand", the minor-key melodicism of "And I Love Her", and on to the chiming power pop of "Eight Days a Week" and the tweaky feedback of "I Feel Fine", these are the songs that turned the entireWestern world on its ear.
The second half of the set--inaddition to its phenomenal songs-- is interesting in that it charts the Beatles' move from straightforward pop toward the new chapter of rock the band would help script in the late '60s. After the expansive chords and slinky melodies of "Ticket to Ride", the band becomes alternately darkly introspective ("Yesterday") and looser and more groove-obsessed ("Drive My Car"), while trying on allegorical Dylan-inspired narratives ("Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)"), and happy-go-luck psychedelia ("Yellow Submarine"). These songs are part of our living, breathing cultural identity, and--as this collection reminds us--for good reason.