The Beatles' Abbey Road recordings on show

The Beatles' recording sessions at London's Abbey Road Studios are being turned into a stage show at the city's Royal Albert Hall, the producers announced on Tuesday.

The Sessions at Abbey Road will see the legendary British band's studio work re-created live at the Victorian concert hall on April 1, 2016. The performance will span their recording career from 1962 to 1969, and use 39 musicians and eight singers to cover all the overdubs, plus period equipment.

The show will be a "musical documentary", says executive producer Stig Edgren, "giving audiences an honest, respectful and accurate re-creation of how musical history was made".