Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary – Super Deluxe Edition
This is the first time Abbey Road has been remixed and presented with
additional session
recordings and demos. To create Abbey Road’s new stereo, 5.1 surround, and
Dolby Atmos
mixes, Martin and Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio
restoration
specialists at Abbey Road Studios. This Super Deluxe Edition of Abbey Road
features the new
stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes.
To produce the
mix, Giles was guided by the album’s original stereo mix supervised by his
father, George
Martin.
Abbey Road’s Super Deluxe box set presents 40 tracks – including
“The Long One” Trial Edit
Mix for the album’s epic Side 2 medley – on three CDs (stereo) and one
Blu-ray disc (Dolby
Atmos, 96kHz/24 bit high resolution stereo, and 96 kHz/24 bit DTS-HD Master
Audio 5.1). The
four discs are housed in a slip-sleeved 12” by 12” 100-page hardbound book
with McCartney’s
foreword; Martin’s introduction; insightful, in-depth chapters written by
Beatles historian, author, and radio producer Kevin Howlett covering the months
preceding The Beatles’ Abbey Road sessions, track-by-track details and session
notes, the cover art and photo shoot, and the
album’s reception upon its release; plus an essay by music journalist and
author David
Hepworth looking at the album’s influence through 50 years. The gorgeous
book is illustrated
with rare and previously unpublished photographs, including many taken by Linda
McCartney;
never before published images of handwritten lyrics, sketches, and a George
Martin score;
Beatles correspondence, recording sheets, and tape boxes; and reproduced
original print ads.