Encouraged by those mixes (which didn’t include any Sgt.
Martin says that talk of the project began after he remixed the Beatles’ hits collection 1 in 2015. Says Martin, “My dad said recording George was like watching someone make a carpet thread by thread, thinking about each bit.”
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“The walls absorb music.” While there are no entirely new songs - not even the mythical lost 1967 psychedelic jam “Carnival of Light” (“It’s not really part of Pepper,” says Martin) - there are revelatory outtakes of every song: a rocked-up “Fixing a Hole”, full of R&B harpsichord a version of “Within You Without You” in which George Harrison gives his instructions to the Indian musicians (“OK, the main thing is the timing”). “Abbey Road is a bit like a salad bowl or a teapot,” says Martin. The studio looks the same as it did when the Beatles made the album here in 1967 - even the same baffles hang on the wall. Today, Giles Martin, the producer and son of the late George Martin, sits at the control board at Abbey Road’s Studio Two in London, playing back some of the lost treasures. The new box set will be available May 26th. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the Beatles are issuing a new box set featuring 34 never-heard tracks from the sessions - the first time they have released unheard studio material since Anthology. Which is why it’s so surprising that, 50 years after the release of the band’s most famous album, Sgt. The Beatles have been notoriously cautious about digging through their vaults - 1995’s Anthology documentary project took more than 25 years for the group to approve and release, while films like Let It Be remain under wraps, even though they would be guaranteed moneymakers.