Following on from the global success of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ and ‘The Beatles (White Album)’, Apple Corps and USM are proud to present the next multi-format Beatles album reissue of ‘Abbey Road’ to celebrate the iconic albums 50th anniversary in 2019.

A few weeks before Abbey Road’s release on September 26, 1969, Apple’s press officer Derek Taylor revealed that the album was “recorded at nice, workmanlike sessions which usually began at 2pm and continued until the end of the evening.” Millions of Abbey Road LPs were pressed at manufacturing plants around the world. The album was another blockbuster release for The Beatles, holding the No. 1 spot on the U.K. albums chart for a total of 17 weeks and topping Billboard’s U.S. albums chart for 11 weeks.

For their work on Abbey Road, Geoff Emerick and Phil McDonald won the year’s GRAMMY Award® for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical. In 1995, Abbey Road was inducted into the Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Hall of Fame, recognizing “recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.” The Beatles’ best-selling studio album, Abbey Road’s universal popularity and influence have continued to grow since its debut.

Since Abbey Road’s release, the street’s zebra crossing has been one of the most celebrated and photographed sites in the world, protected as an historic landmark and visited by thousands of Beatles fans each year. Due to the success of The Beatles’ album, EMI Recording Studios was renamed Abbey Road Studios. Owned and operated by Universal Music Group, Abbey Road Studios is the most famous recording studio in the world and a global music icon.

Features:

• 12” x 12” lift off lid box to house:
• LP1: New ‘Abbey Road’ stereo album mix
• LP2: Demos and Outtakes
• LP3: Demos and Outtakes
• Limited Edition

Track Listing:

LP ONE: Side 1 (2019 Stereo Mix)

• 1. Come Together
• 2. Something
• 3. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
• 4. Oh! Darling
• 5. Octopus’s Garden
• 6. I Want You (She’s So Heavy)

LP ONE: Side 2 (2019 Stereo Mix)

• 1. Here Comes The Sun
• 2. Because
• 3. You Never Give Me Your Money
• 4. Sun King
• 5. Mean Mr Mustard
• 6. Polythene Pam
• 7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
• 8. Golden Slumbers
• 9. Carry That Weight
• 10. The End
• 11. Her Majesty

LP TWO: Side 1 (Sessions)

• 1. I Want You (She’s So Heavy) (Trident Recording Session and Reduction Mix)
• 2. Goodbye (Home Demo)
• 3. Something (Studio Demo)
• 4. The Ballad Of John And Yoko (Take 7)
• 5. Old Brown Shoe (Take 2)

LP TWO: Side 2 (Sessions)

• 1. Oh! Darling (Take 4)
• 2. Octopus’s Garden (Take 9)
• 3. You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)
• 4. Her Majesty (Takes 1–3)
• 5. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Takes 1–3) / Medley)
• 6. Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)
• 7. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 12)

LP THREE: Side 1 (Sessions)

• 1. Come Together (Take 5)
• 2. The End (Take 3)
• 3. Come and Get It (Studio Demo)
• 4. Sun King (Take 20)
• 5. Mean Mr Mustard (Take 20)
• 6. Polythene Pam (Take 27)
• 7. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Take 27)
• 8. Because (Take 1 Instrumental)

LP THREE: Side 2 (Sessions)

• 1. The Long One (Trial Edit & Mix – 30 July 1969)
• 2. Something (Take 39 – Instrumental – Strings Only)
• 3. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (Take 17 – Instrumental – Strings & Brass Only)