2018 - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band (super deluxe edition)

“That right hand one, far right,” explains McCartney. “Have you got your loud pedal down, Mal?” asks McCartney. The Beatles settle, finally, on a climactic major E piano chord, played simultaneously on three different pianos. The sound is striking: part churchy hymnal, part meditative chant.

Another take, meanwhile, finds The Beatles hitting upon a more experimental approach, humming a final chord in unison with a little help from their friends. “Take 1” finds assistant Mal Evans counting bars before McCartney’s piano chords simply halt. The only trouble is, The Beatles don’t have a satisfactory conclusion for it. This new song takes in newspaper headlines and suburban drudgery its tone is sorrowful and poignant its structure progressive. Even in an embryonic state, with just John Lennon on acoustic guitar and Paul McCartney on piano, the song is clearly on a par with the innovative studio recordings for “ Strawberry Fields Forever” and “ Penny Lane” that have filled the previous weeks. On January 19, 1967, The Beatles began work on a song provisionally titled “In The Life Of…”. FIFTY years on, where do you start with Sgt Pepper? How about with the ending.

2018 - sgt. pepper's lonely hearts club band (super deluxe edition)