The Beatles’ classic 1967 Sgt Pepper's album will be re-released with two additional songs in the tracklist.
Two of the Beatles ’ most famous songs will finally be included in the classic Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club when the album is re-issued on June 1 to mark 50 years since its release.
The songs Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane were originally meant to be included in the final album, but record label EMI chose to leave the two songs out.
The way the story goes, the Beatles originally wanted both Fields and Penny Lane to be on the upcoming Sgt Peppers album, they wanted it to be the central songs that tie the album together. But EMI clamored for them to release a new single to keep them on the charts. The band agreed—reticently—to release those two songs as a single. When the album was being prepared for release, it was decided not to include the two already-released tracks on the record.
Fans of the band during 1967 were furious Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane never made the final cut.
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The 2017 reissue of Sgt Peppers, to mark its 50th anniversary, The Beatles’ company Apple Corps are said to “have the backing of all parties involved in the record for the changes to be included in the new release.”
According to an article in The Mirror, Beatles producer George Martin, who died last March, confessed that he was partly to blame for the two songs being omitted from the final album, calling the decision “the biggest mistake of [his] professional life.” According to the piece, he said, “The only reason that ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ and ‘Penny Lane’ didn’t go onto the album was a feeling that if we issued a single it shouldn’t go onto an album. It was a crazy idea, and I’m afraid I was partly responsible…Brian [Epstein, the Beatles’ manager] came to me and said, ‘I must have a really great single. What have you got?’ I said, ‘I’ve got three tracks and two of them are the best tracks [Lennon and McCartney] have ever written.’ So we put them together.”
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