New mix and presented with additional session recordings and demos. To create Abbey Road’s new stereo, 5.1 surround, and Dolby Atmos mixes, Giles Martin and Sam Okell worked with an expert team of engineers and audio restoration specialists at Abbey Road Studios. This Super Deluxe Edition 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.
This 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 The gorgeous book is illustrated with rare and previously unpublished photographs, including many taken by Linda McCartney; never before published images of handwritten lyrics, sketches, and a George Martin score; Beatles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.
CD1: New Abbey Road stereo album mix
CD2: Demos and Outtakes
CD3: Demos and Outtakes
DISC 4 (Blu-ray): Dolby Atmos mix of whole album / 5.1 surround of whole album / hi-res stereo mix of whole album
Magic, in these matters the wisdom of the group could best be described as the wisdom of some of the group that are not in possession of all the facts. I don't know why the Mods that approve contributions when they are entered are not aware of this and alter the entry accordingly. Surely after four years of extended forums on the matter the Mods at least should be fully cognisant of the fact that most modern EU releases in all formats are available outside the EU and not just in Australia but most of South America, as well as parts of Asia and Africa.
The incremental changes that occur due my periodic corrections on these errors are only a drop in the ocean compared to the number of items that need to be corrected in the same manner. I see in the "See Also" at the bottom of the page that now we have this one listed as international the 2CD version is listed as an EU release. The vinyl version is also listed as an EU release.
Incremental changes coming from the wisdom of the group will not be enough to overcome this problem. I, for instance, have practically given up and just limit myself one correction or comment a week. Here's last week's comment and evidence that was completely ignored by the group and Mods. I haven't "popped a sprocket" but my efforts in attempting to correct these mistakes doesn't improve the site in reality. The links provided above show that they in fact make the site more disorganised with some of the same release listed as international and others listed as EU. Does this make me happy - not really.
Please remember Lee, that people only add things to the best of their knowledge, and if you live in Europe, you may well add as Europe, not perhaps, being a citizen of elsewheres also.
The site is designed to accommodate this, and the wisdom of the crowd to be applied through incremental changes.
Just submit a correction in the usual manner, and it may be so.
(I'd hate to think you'd popped a sprocket over a CD entry! :D
Agreed (again), Lee - this is another one that shows the company name Universal International Music B.V.; the second word in that name is a rather large clue.
This exact same product is and always was available in Australia. See link for proof positive. So this should be listed as international or as both Australian and an EU release. If I adopted the practise of EU site users all of these types of EU produced global releases would be listed as Australian which is true yet not quite correct. When will uploaders from the EU get wise to the fact that most of the product they see and buy is available world-wide? Correction sent.
Nod to Beggars Road, I've added the two missing sleeves for completeness sake, also added brighter, more readable disc images for CD 1 and the Blu Ray Audio disc.