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The Beatles Revolver box sets: official details and pre-order links

Vinyl and CD box sets, but no blu-ray

By Paul Sinclair

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The reissue of The Beatles’ 1966 album Revolver has been officially confirmed and is coming in late October. There will be six physical formats, including a 5CD super deluxe edition and a 4LP+7″ super deluxe.

All formats offer a new stereo mix by Giles Martin and Sam Okell, sourced “directly from the original four-track master tapes” and utilising Peter Jackson’s WingNut Films’ cutting edge ‘de-mixing’ technology, which allows the separation of music previously ‘bounced down’ and fused together on one track.

Revolver 5CD super deluxe (click image to enlarge)

The 5CD edition offers the stereo mix, two discs of ‘Sessions’ (outtakes, rehearsals and demos), a CD featuring the original mono mix “from the original master tape” and finally, a four-track EP which features new stereo mixes of non-album single ‘Paperback Writer’/’Rain’, along with the original mono versions.

Controversially, there is no blu-ray with the CD box set. Every Beatles CD box set since the album reissues started back in 2017, has contained a blu-ray with a spatial audio mix (Sgt. Pepper actually had a blu-ray and a DVD) so to omit this from Revolver is a strange decision. An Atmos Mix has been created but it is simply not being made available physically, which is going to disappoint many fans. No blu-ray also denies us a hi-res stereo version of the new mix on a physical format.

The 2022 new stereo mix of Taxman
Revolver 4LP+7″ super deluxe edition (click image to enlarge)

The 4LP vinyl super deluxe matches the content of the 5CD set. The four-track EP is a seven-inch single in this edition. Both super deluxe sets feature a 100-page hardcover book which showcases Klaus Voorman’s original artwork, features a foreword by Paul McCartney, chapters by Kevin Howlett and an essay by Questlove.

The other formats are a 2CD edition, a single vinyl LP, a single CD and a vinyl picture disc (D2C only). The 2CD set offers highlights from the sessions on the bonus CD, the new stereo remixes of ‘Paperback Writer’ and ‘Rain’ and a 40-page booklet. Amazon in the US have an exclusive version of the single vinyl (with the new stereo mix) which includes a Revolver slipmat. However, it is $10 more expensive than the standard vinyl listing on the same site.

Revolver will be reissued on 28 October 2022 via UMC/Apple. Pre-order links will be updated throughout the day, so check back.

Tracklisting

Revolver The Beatles / Revolver 5CD or 4LP+7″ box sets

    • CD 1: 2022 Stereo Mix by Giles Martin & Sam Okell
      1. Taxman
      2. Eleanor Rigby
      3. I’m Only Sleeping
      4. Love You To
      5. Here, There And Everywhere
      6. Yellow Submarine
      7. She Said She Said
      8. Good Day Sunshine
      9. And Your Bird Can Sing
      10. For No One
      11. Doctor Robert
      12. I Want To Tell You
      13. Got To Get You Into My Life
      14. Tomorrow Never Knows
    • CD 2 or LP 2: Sessions
      1. Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)
      2. Tomorrow Never Knows (Mono mix RM 11)
      3. Got To Get You Into My Life (First version) – Take 5
      4. Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version) – Unnumbered mix – mono
      5. Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version) – Take 8
      6. Love You To (Take 1) – mono
      7. Love You To (Unnumbered rehearsal) – mono
      8. Love You To (Take 7)
      9. Paperback Writer (Takes 1 and 2) – Backing track – mono
      10. Rain (Take 5 – Actual speed)
      11. Rain (Take 5 – Slowed down for master tape)
      12. Doctor Robert (Take 7)
      13. And Your Bird Can Sing (First version) – Take 2
      14. And Your Bird Can Sing (First version) – Take 2 (giggling)
    • CD 3 or LP 3: Sessions Two
      1. 1 And Your Bird Can Sing (Second version) – Take 5
      2. Taxman (Take 11)
      3. I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal fragment) – mono
      4. I’m Only Sleeping (Take 2) – mono
      5. I’m Only Sleeping (Take 5) – mono
      6. I’m Only Sleeping (Mono mix RM1)
      7. Eleanor Rigby (Speech before Take 2)
      8. Eleanor Rigby (Take 2)
      9. For No One (Take 10) – Backing track
      10. Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work tape – Part 1) – mono
      11. Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work tape – Part 2) – mono
      12. Yellow Submarine (Take 4 before sound effects)
      13. Yellow Submarine (Highlighted sound effects)
      14. I Want To Tell You (Speech and Take 4)
      15. Here, There And Everywhere (Take 6)
      16. She Said She Said (John’s demo) – mono
      17. She Said She Said (Take 15) – Backing track rehearsal
    • CD 4 or LP 4: 2022 Mono transfer of original tape
      1. Taxman
      2. Eleanor Rigby
      3. I’m Only Sleeping
      4. Love You To
      5. Here, There And Everywhere
      6. Yellow Submarine
      7. She Said She Said
      8. Good Day Sunshine
      9. And Your Bird Can Sing
      10. For No One
      11. Doctor Robert
      12. I Want To Tell You
      13. Got To Get You Into My Life
      14. Tomorrow Never Knows
    • CD 5 or 7″: Bonus EP
      1. Paperback Writer (2022 Stereo)
      2. Rain (2022 Stereo)
      3. Paperback Writer (Mono)
      4. Rain (Mono)

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