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You knew something special was coming to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic albums in rock, right? Giles Martin and Sam Okell were guided by the album’s original stereo mix supervised by George Martin as they produced this new stereo album mix of "Abbey Road." The deluxe editions here pair the original album with additional session recordings and demos, most of which are previously unreleased (this is truly manna from Beatles heaven): "Come Together" (take 5), "Something" (studio demo), "Maxwell’s Silver Hammer" (take 12), "Octopus’s Garden" (take 9), "Oh! Darling" (take 4), "I Want You (She’s So Heavy)" (Trident Recording Session & Reduction Mix), "Here Comes the Sun" (take 9), "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (take 27), "You Never Give Me Your Money" (take 36), "Because" (take 1 instrumental) and more. You get 16 of those bonus tracks on the 2 CDs, and 23 on the three 180-gram vinyl LPs. The limited edition picture disc LP gives you the new stereo mix of the original album tracks. The super-deluxe boxed set here features all 40 tracks of the deluxe vinyl edition (on 3 CDs), a Blu-Ray disc containing the Dolby Atmos mix of the album plus 5.1 surround and hi-res stereo mixes of the album and a 100-page hardbound book with a McCartney foreword, a Martin introduction, in-depth essays, track-by-track details and session notes and a mound of archival material. For the Beatles fan in your life, any of these releases will score a whole lotta points (but especially the box)! Capitol.