Rolling Stone Australia — July 2017

The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely

Hearts Club Band:

Anniversary EditionCapitol

★★★★★

BY MIKAL GILMORE

In 2006, the Beatles coaxed

producer George Martin out

of retirement to remix and re-

arrange several of their songs

forCirqueduSoleil’sLasVegas

productionLove.To a id h i m ,

Martin brought on his son

Giles, who created a revelatory

mash-up that reminded us how

beautifully George Martin (who

died last year at 90) had pro-

ducedthemallinthefirstplace.

Now, Giles is helming anoth-

er historic project, an expand-

ed 50th-anniversary edition of

the Beatles’ masterpiece,Sgt.

Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club

Band.It’sthekindofreconsid-

eration the band (and its leg-

atees) almost never authorise.

Giles doesn’t just honour his

father’s legacy, he builds some-

thing new from it.

The reissue comes in vari-

ous packages: single and dou-

bleCDs,aswellasadeluxebox

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“They’re guaranteed to raise a smile.

So may I introduce to you

The act you’ve known for all these years:

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”

—Th e B e a t l e s , “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely

A New

Tr i p

Through

Pepper-

Land

An expanded new

edition helps us

rediscover the Beatles’

1967 masterwork