Anthology Collection

Album by The Beatles

The Beatles Anthology is a three-volume compilation by English rock band the Beatles, released in 1995 and 1996. The set provides a chronological survey of their career, combining early skiffle- and rock-influenced performances with later studio outtakes and experimental recordings that reveal changes in songwriting, arrangement and studio practice.
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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Free as a Bird (1995 mix)
    4:25
  2. 2.
    John Lennon Speech 1
    0:11
  3. 3.
    That’ll Be the Day
    2:09
  4. 4.
    In Spite of All the Danger
    2:44
  5. 5.
    Paul McCartney Speech 1
    0:18
  6. 6.
    Hallelujah, I Love Her So (home demo)
    1:13
  7. 7.
    You’ll Be Mine (home demo)
    1:38
  8. 8.
    Cayenne (home demo)
    1:13
  9. 9.
    Paul McCartney Speech 2
    0:07
  10. 10.
    My Bonnie
    2:42
  11. 11.
    Ain’t She Sweet
    2:13
  12. 12.
    Cry for a Shadow
    2:22
  13. 13.
    John Lennon Speech 2
    0:09
  14. 14.
    Brian Epstein Speech 1
    0:18
  15. 15.
    Searchin’ (Decca Audition)
    2:59
  16. 16.
    Three Cool Cats (Decca Audition)
    2:25
  17. 17.
    The Sheik of Araby (Decca Audition)
    1:43
  18. 18.
    Like Dreamers Do (Decca Audition)
    2:35
  19. 19.
    Hello Little Girl (Decca Audition)
    1:40
  20. 20.
    Brian Epstein Speech 2
    0:32
  21. 21.
    Besame Mucho (June 1962 version)
    2:36
  22. 22.
    Love Me Do (first version)
    2:31
  23. 23.
    How Do You Do It
    1:57
  24. 24.
    Please Please Me (first version)
    1:59
  25. 25.
    One After 909 (takes 3, 4, and 5)
    2:23
  26. 26.
    One After 909 (edit of Takes 4 and 5)
    2:55
  27. 27.
    Lend Me Your Comb (BBC Live Recording)
    1:49
  28. 28.
    I’ll Get You (live on Saturday Night at the London Palladium)
    2:08
  29. 29.
    John Lennon Speech 3
    0:12
  30. 30.
    I Saw Her Standing There (live in Stockholm)
    2:48
  31. 31.
    From Me to You (live in Stockholm)
    2:05
  32. 32.
    Money (That’s What I Want) (live in Stockholm)
    2:52
  33. 33.
    You Really Got a Hold on Me (live in Stockholm)
    2:57
  34. 34.
    Roll Over Beethoven (live in Stockholm)
    2:21

Disc 2

  1. 1.
    She Loves You (live from the Royal Variety Performance)
    2:50
  2. 2.
    Till There Was You (live from the Royal Variety Performance)
    2:52
  3. 3.
    Twist and Shout (live from the Royal Variety Performance)
    3:07
  4. 4.
    This Boy (live on the Morecambe and Wise Show)
    2:21
  5. 5.
    I Want to Hold Your Hand (live on the Morecambe and Wise Show)
    2:36
  6. 6.
    Speech (live on the Morecambe and Wise Show)
    2:05
  7. 7.
    Moonlight Bay (live on the Morecambe and Wise Show)
    0:50
  8. 8.
    Can’t Buy Me Love (take 2 with Solo from Take 2)
    2:09
  9. 9.
    All My Loving (live on the Ed Sullivan Show)
    2:19
  10. 10.
    You Can’t Do That (take 6)
    2:42
  11. 11.
    And I Love Her (take 2)
    1:52
  12. 12.
    A Hard Day’s Night (take 1)
    2:43
  13. 13.
    I Wanna Be Your Man (live for Around the Beatles)
    1:47
  14. 14.
    Long Tall Sally (live for Around the Beatles)
    1:45
  15. 15.
    Boys (live for Around the Beatles)
    1:49
  16. 16.
    Shout (live for Around the Beatles)
    1:30
  17. 17.
    I’ll Be Back (take 2)
    1:12
  18. 18.
    I’ll Be Back (take 3)
    1:57
  19. 19.
    You Know What to Do (demo)
    1:58
  20. 20.
    No Reply (demo)
    1:46
  21. 21.
    Mr Moonlight (takes 1 and 4)
    2:47
  22. 22.
    Leave My Kitten Alone (take 5)
    2:56
  23. 23.
    No Reply (take 2)
    2:28
  24. 24.
    Eight Days a Week (takes 1, 2 and 4)
    1:25
  25. 25.
    Eight Days a Week (take 5)
    2:47
  26. 26.
    Kansas City / Hey‐Hey‐Hey‐Hey! (take 2)
    2:44

Disc 3

  1. 1.
    Real Love (1996 mix)
    3:53
  2. 2.
    Yes It Is (takes 2 & 14)
    1:50
  3. 3.
    I’m Down (take 1)
    2:53
  4. 4.
    You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away (take 5)
    2:44
  5. 5.
    If You’ve Got Trouble (take 1)
    2:48
  6. 6.
    That Means a Lot (take 1)
    2:26
  7. 7.
    Yesterday (take 1)
    2:33
  8. 8.
    It’s Only Love (takes 3 & 2)
    1:58
  9. 9.
    I Feel Fine (live on Blackpool Night Out)
    2:15
  10. 10.
    Ticket to Ride (live on Blackpool Night Out)
    2:44
  11. 11.
    Yesterday (live on Blackpool Night Out)
    2:42
  12. 12.
    Help! (live on Blackpool Night Out)
    2:54
  13. 13.
    Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby (live at Shea Stadium, New York)
    2:45
  14. 14.
    Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (take 1)
    1:59
  15. 15.
    I’m Looking Through You (take 1)
    2:53
  16. 16.
    12-Bar Original (take 2 edited)
    2:55
  17. 17.
    Tomorrow Never Knows (take 1)
    3:14
  18. 18.
    Got to Get You Into My Life (take 5)
    2:54
  19. 19.
    And Your Bird Can Sing (takes 1 & 2)
    2:13
  20. 20.
    Taxman (take 11)
    2:32
  21. 21.
    Eleanor Rigby (take 14 - strings only)
    2:06
  22. 22.
    I’m Only Sleeping (rehearsal)
    0:40
  23. 23.
    I’m Only Sleeping (take 1)
    2:59
  24. 24.
    Rock and Roll Music (live in Tokyo)
    1:38
  25. 25.
    She’s a Woman (live in Tokyo)
    2:56

Disc 4

  1. 1.
    Strawberry Fields Forever (home demo sequence)
    1:41
  2. 2.
    Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
    2:34
  3. 3.
    Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7 & edit Piece)
    4:13
  4. 4.
    Penny Lane (remix)
    3:12
  5. 5.
    A Day in the Life (takes 1, 2, 6 & orchestra)
    5:04
  6. 6.
    Good Morning Good Morning (take 8)
    2:39
  7. 7.
    Only a Northern Song (takes 3 & 12)
    2:43
  8. 8.
    Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (takes 1 & 2)
    1:05
  9. 9.
    Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (take 7)
    2:33
  10. 10.
    Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds (takes 6, 7 & 8)
    3:05
  11. 11.
    Within You Without You (instrumental)
    5:27
  12. 12.
    Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise) (take 5)
    1:27
  13. 13.
    You Know My Name (Look Up the Number) (remix)
    5:43
  14. 14.
    I Am the Walrus (take 16)
    4:01
  15. 15.
    The Fool on the Hill (demo)
    2:48
  16. 16.
    Your Mother Should Know (take 27)
    3:02
  17. 17.
    The Fool on the Hill (take 4)
    3:44
  18. 18.
    Hello, Goodbye (take 16)
    3:17
  19. 19.
    Lady Madonna (takes 3 & 4)
    2:21
  20. 20.
    Across the Universe (take 2)
    3:30

Disc 5

  1. 1.
    A Beginning
    0:50
  2. 2.
    Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Esher demo with false start)
    2:14
  3. 3.
    Helter Skelter (take 2 edited)
    4:37
  4. 4.
    Mean Mr Mustard (Esher demo)
    1:58
  5. 5.
    Polythene Pam (Esher demo)
    1:26
  6. 6.
    Glass Onion (Esher demo)
    1:51
  7. 7.
    Junk (Esher demo)
    2:24
  8. 8.
    Piggies (Esher demo)
    2:00
  9. 9.
    Honey Pie (Esher demo edited)
    1:19
  10. 10.
    Don’t Pass Me By (take 3 with take 5 vocal)
    2:42
  11. 11.
    Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (first version - take 5)
    2:56
  12. 12.
    Good Night (rehearsal and take 34)
    2:38
  13. 13.
    Cry Baby Cry (take 1)
    2:46
  14. 14.
    Blackbird (take 4)
    2:18
  15. 15.
    Sexy Sadie (take 6)
    4:06
  16. 16.
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic version - take 1)
    3:27
  17. 17.
    Hey Jude (take 2)
    4:21
  18. 18.
    Not Guilty (take 102 edited)
    3:22
  19. 19.
    Mother Nature’s Son (take 2)
    3:17
  20. 20.
    Glass Onion (mono mix)
    2:08
  21. 21.
    Rocky Raccoon (take 8)
    4:12
  22. 22.
    What’s the New Mary Jane (take 4)
    6:12
  23. 23.
    Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias (studio jam)
    2:30
  24. 24.
    I’m So Tired (edit of takes 3, 6 and 9)
    2:14
  25. 25.
    I Will (take 1)
    1:55
  26. 26.
    Why Don’t We Do It in the Road (take 4)
    2:15
  27. 27.
    Julia (take 2)
    1:58

Disc 6

  1. 1.
    I’ve Got a Feeling (Apple studio)
    2:49
  2. 2.
    She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (Apple studio)
    3:36
  3. 3.
    Dig a Pony (Apple studio)
    4:18
  4. 4.
    Two of Us (Apple studio)
    3:27
  5. 5.
    For You Blue (Apple studio)
    2:22
  6. 6.
    Teddy Boy (Apple studio)
    3:18
  7. 7.
    Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes (Medley - Apple studio jam)
    3:10
  8. 8.
    The Long and Winding Road (Apple studio)
    3:41
  9. 9.
    Oh! Darling (Apple studio)
    4:07
  10. 10.
    All Things Must Pass (demo)
    3:04
  11. 11.
    Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues (Apple studio jam)
    1:56
  12. 12.
    Get Back (third rooftop performance)
    3:08
  13. 13.
    Old Brown Shoe (demo)
    3:02
  14. 14.
    Octopus’s Garden (take 2)
    2:49
  15. 15.
    Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (take 5)
    3:49
  16. 16.
    Something (demo)
    3:18
  17. 17.
    Come Together (take 1)
    3:40
  18. 18.
    Come and Get It (demo - 1996 remix)
    2:30
  19. 19.
    Ain’t She Sweet (studio jam)
    2:08
  20. 20.
    Because (vocals mix)
    2:23
  21. 21.
    Let It Be (Apple studio)
    4:05
  22. 22.
    I Me Mine (take 16)
    1:47
  23. 23.
    The End (remix with the final chord of a Day in the Life)
    2:52

Disc 7

  1. 1.
    I Saw Her Standing There (take 2)
    3:06
  2. 2.
    Money (That’s What I Want) (RM7 undubbed)
    2:48
  3. 3.
    This Boy (takes 12 and 13)
    3:18
  4. 4.
    Tell Me Why (takes 4 and 5)
    3:07
  5. 5.
    If I Fell (take 11)
    2:38
  6. 6.
    Matchbox (take 1)
    2:09
  7. 7.
    Every Little Thing (takes 6 and 7)
    3:28
  8. 8.
    I Need You (take 1)
    2:36
  9. 9.
    I’ve Just Seen a Face (take 3)
    2:26
  10. 10.
    In My Life (take 1)
    2:40
  11. 11.
    Nowhere Man (first version - take 2)
    2:24
  12. 12.
    Got to Get You Into My Life (second version - unnumbered mix)
    2:35
  13. 13.
    Love You To (take 7)
    2:56
  14. 14.
    Strawberry Fields Forever (take 26)
    3:20
  15. 15.
    She’s Leaving Home (take 1 - instrumental)
    3:50
  16. 16.
    Baby, You’re a Rich Man (takes 11 and 12)
    6:06
  17. 17.
    All You Need Is Love (rehearsal for BBC Broadcast)
    6:11
  18. 18.
    The Fool on the Hill (take 5 - instrumental)
    4:42
  19. 19.
    I Am the Walrus (take 19 - strings, brass, clarinet overdub)
    4:57

Disc 8

  1. 1.
    Hey Bulldog (take 4 - instrumental)
    3:14
  2. 2.
    Good Night (take 10 with a guitar part from take 5)
    2:31
  3. 3.
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps (third version - take 27)
    3:18
  4. 4.
    (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care (studio jam)
    0:43
  5. 5.
    Helter Skelter (second version - take 17)
    3:38
  6. 6.
    I Will (take 29)
    0:26
  7. 7.
    Can You Take Me Back? (take 1)
    2:22
  8. 8.
    Julia (two rehearsals)
    4:26
  9. 9.
    Get Back (take 8)
    3:51
  10. 10.
    Octopus’s Garden (rehearsal)
    1:49
  11. 11.
    Don’t Let Me Down (first rooftop performance)
    3:27
  12. 12.
    You Never Give Me Your Money (take 36)
    5:17
  13. 13.
    Here Comes the Sun (take 9)
    3:41
  14. 14.
    Something (take 39 - strings only instrumental)
    2:35
  15. 15.
    Free as a Bird (2025 mix)
    4:27
  16. 16.
    Real Love (2025 mix)
    3:34
  17. 17.
    Now and Then
    4:10

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