Summer of Love ( the making of SGT Pepper )

CELEBRATING 40 YEARS SINCE THE BEATLES BEGAN WORK ON SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND, GENESIS PUBLICATIONS IS PROUD TO PRESENT THE STORY BEHIND THE MOST FAMOUS AND 'FABBEST' ALBUM EVER MADE.

The summer of 1967 was the summer of love and psychedelia; its soundtrack was The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - still regarded by many as the greatest album in modern music.

In SUMMER OF LOVE, George Martin gives a detailed account of the recording of each song on Sgt. Pepper as well as its forebears and offspring - 'Strawberry Fields' and 'Penny Lane' to 'All You Need is Love' and Magical Mystery Tour.

Regular copies, numbered 351-2000 inclusive, are quarter-bound in leather with gold-blocked lettering on the spine and four-colour printed imitlin boards front and back.

Housed in an elegant printed slipcase the 'regular' copies are anything but ordinary.

Every copy in the edition is signed by George Martin.

SUMMER OF LOVE peeps behind the Abbey Road mixing desks for an unrivalled insight into the art of the producer and gives the real stories behind the creation of such modern masterpieces as 'A Day In The Life'.

An extensive update of the 1994 paperback of the same name ('With A Little Help From My Friends' in the US), SUMMER OF LOVE's breathtaking new
design captures the spirit and vitality of 1967 and truly is a piece of art to be treasured.  

This large format [320mm x 250mm] collectors' edition of George Martin's SUMMER OF LOVE is exquisitely illustrated throughout.

SUMMER OF LOVE includes approximately 130 images and illustrations printed in four-colour with image varnishing onto 176 pages of heavyweight art paper.

The photos have been sourced from archives, agencies and collections the world over. Many have been coloured and illustrated to become original pieces of art in themselves, capturing the spirit of invention and psychedelia in which
Sgt. Pepper was born.