1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Take 10
2 Feb 1967
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from "Making Of Sgt. Pepper" TV Special
2. (Medley)
That Means A Lot
Take 23
30 Mar 1965
That Means A Lot
Take 24
30 Mar 1965
That Means A Lot (Lennon/McCartney)
Test Take
30 Mar 1965
3. I'm So Tired
Take 14
8 Oct 1968
4. We Can Work It Out
Take 2
20 Oct 1965
take 2 early mix
Take 2, external, with single lead vocal
Source: Lost Lennon Tapes
5. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Take 1
1 Feb 1967
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from "Making Of Sgt. Pepper" TV Special
6. It's All Too Much
Take 2
2 Jun 1967
Take 2, external, unedited
7. She's A Woman
Radio
17 Nov 1964
BBC "Top Gear" Session outtake
8. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!
Take 9
17 Feb 1967
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from "Making of Sgt Pepper" TV special
9. Run For Your Life
Take 5
12 Oct 1965
Take 5, external with alternate vocals.
Source: Lost Lennon Tapes
10. Within You Without You
Take 2
Excerpt
22 Mar 1967
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from TV special "Making of sgt Pepper"
11. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
Take 2
21 Oct 1965
12. Penny Lane
Overdub
9 Jan 1967
Lost Lennon Tape edit
13. I'm In Love
John Lennon demo, summer 1963.
Some scholars date this as a late seventies piano rendition.
Piano demo acetate
14. (Medley)
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
Take 1
Breakdown
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.01
The Beatles
Take 1 lasts only 10 seconds before breaking down.
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
Take 2
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.02
Take 2 is a 6:36 performance.
This was recorded live without overdubs and some instruments are hidden in the background.
The take 2 that surfaced is in very poor quality although it's found on stereo on some bootlegs.
A complete take.
12-Bar Original (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey)
Rehearsal
Excerpt
4 Nov 1965
SS.ETC.10.Reh
Before recording the two takes of 12-Bar Original, The Beatles rehearsed the whole song and taped it.
The two takes were recorded over the rehearsal and we only have about 1:50 left of the end of the rehearsal.
This is a rehearsal that was found on the same tape as the two first takes.
In fact, the first takes were recorded over the rehearsals and this is what remains of these rehearsals.
15. I Feel Fine
Radio
BBC
17 Nov 1964
BBC "Top Gear" session outtake
16. Good Morning Good Morning
Take 11
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from "Making of Sgt Pepper" TV special
17. The Inner Light
Take 5
12 Jan 1968
Instrumental, external
18. Hold Me Tight
Take 20
12 Sep 1963
Debuted on this CD ! Not included on Yellow Dog's "complete" sessions tapes
19. A Day In The Life
Take 1
19 Jan 1967
SS.SGT.13.01
4-track playback w/commentary by George Martin from "Making of Sgt Pepper" TV special
20. She Can Talk To Me
Demo
Recorded early 1968
John's home piano demo
21. I'm So Tired
Take 14
8 Oct 1968
15 oct 1968 mixing session: overdub onto track 8 of take 14 (which was recorded on 8 oct 1968)
22. Strawberry Fields Forever
Demo Sequence
Nov 1966
Kenwood demo: electric guitar composing sequence + mellotron & organ overdubs onto playback of composing sequence.
Note: this is the first appearance of a tape this long, with the second segment. All other iterations prior to this CD were the first section only, and some were incomplete
23. (Medley)
Cry Baby Cry
Demo Sequence
Dec 1967
Across The Universe
Home Recording
1967
HR101
Kenwood home demo fragments: piano, piano & mellotron +electric guitar.
At this stage, the demo for CRY BABY CRY included a section which was not used - it became the 'JAI GURU DEVA OM' part of ACROSS THE UNIVERSE -.
24. (Medley)
Cry Baby Cry
Demo Sequence
Dec 1967
Happiness Is A Warm Gun
Take 65
29 Sep 1968
15 oct 1968 mixing session: overdub onto track 8 of take 65 (recorded on 29 sep 1968)
25. Rishikesh Tape
When The Saints Go Marching In (Black/Purvis)
You Are My Sunshine (Davis/Mitchell)
Jingle Bells (Pierpont)
She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain (Traditional)
.
Untitled Instrumental (unknown)
Blowin' In The Wind (Dylan)
Hare Krishna (Ragni/Rado/McDermott)
Catch The Wind (Leitch)
Mid-March 1968 - Soundtrack from an Italiian TV segment with the Beatles and Donovan in India
Taken from VHS source.
26. We Can Work It Out
Demo
Oct 1965
Paul home demo.
This is the only surviving fragment of this tape. Where it cuts off here, John recorded over it a spoken word piece with background music, entitled "Lucy From Littletown". This iteration was sourced from Lost Lennon Tapes, and cuts off just before Elliot Mintz cuts in.