In June 2007, Travis participated in BBC Radio 2's project to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". All the album's tracks were re-recorded by contemporary artists, supervised by the original engineer, Geoff Emerick, using the same 4-track studio equipment. Travis contributed a rendition of "Lovely Rita". The band wanted to be as faithful to the original as possible, even to the extent of recording the guitars in the stairwell of Abbey Road Studios to recreate the acoustics.