1995: THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY I

Apple/November 21, 1995. PCSP 727

Produced by George Martin

LP 1, side 1: 

Free As A Bird (Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starkey) 
Speech: John Lennon 
That'll Be The Day (Allison-Holly-Petty) 
In Spite Of All The Danger (McCartney-Harrison) 
Speech: Paul McCartney 
Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Charles) 
You'll Be Mine (McCartney-Lennon) 

LP1, side 2:

Cayenne (McCartney) 
Speech: Paul 
My Bonnie (trad.arr:Sheridan) 
Ain't She Sweet (Yellen-Ager) 
Cry For A Shadow (Lennon-Harrison) 
Speech: John 
Speech: Brian Epstein

LP1, side 2:

Searchin' (Leiber-Stoller) 
Three Cool Cats (Leiber-Stoller) 
The Sheik Of Araby (Smith-Wheeler-Snyder) 
Like Dreamers Do (Lennon-McCartney) 
Hello Little Girl (Lennon-McCartney) 
Speech: Brian Epstein 
Besame Mucho (Velazquez-Skylar) 
Love Me Do 

LP2, side 1:

How Do You Do It (Murray) 
Please Please Me 
One After 909 (sequence) 
One After 909 
Lend Me Your Comb (Tworney-Wise-Weisman) 
I'll Get You 
Speech: John 

LP2, side 2:

I Saw Her Standing There 
From Me To You 
Money (That's What I Want) 
You Really Got A Hold On Me 
Roll Over Beethoven

LP3, side 1:

She Loves You 
Till There Was You 
Twist And Shout 
This Boy 
I Want To Hold Your Hand 
Speech: Ernie Morecambe og Ernie Wise 
Moonlight Bay (Madden-Wenrich) 
Can't Buy Me Love 
All My Loving 
You Can't Do That 
And I Love Her 
A Hard Day's Night 
I Wanna Be Your Man 
Long Tall Sally 
Boys 
Shout (Isley-Isley-Isley)

LP3, side 2:

I'll Be Back (take 2) 
I'll Be Back (take 3) 
You Know What To Do (George Harrison) 
No Reply (demo) 
Mr. Moonlight 
Leave My Kitten Alone (John-Turner-McDougal) 
No Reply (studio outtake) 
Eight Days A Week (Sequence) 
Eight Day's A Week (Complete) 
Kansas City / Hey Hey Hey Hey

"Live at the BBC" was a big success, and spurred the releases of "Anthology" vols. 1, 2 and 3 in 1995 and 1996. Enormous sums were used on advertising the albums, and for a big number of new fans these were their first Beatles records. The first one sold well, the second a little less and the third even less, but they brought the Beatles back into the top of the charts, especially in the USA. 

The albums contain demos, concert recordings, radio- and TV-recordings as well as different studio recordings or mixes. So even if a lot of the titles look familiar, these are previously unreleased versions. 

In addition there are songs here that hasn't been released before and two "brand new" Beatles-songs: Free As A Bird and Real Love, based around two demos from the late John Lennon. The three remaining Beatles recorded these songs in 1994 and 1995, under Jeff Lynne's production.