1996: THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY II
Apple/March
18, 1996. PCSP 728
Produced by George Martin
LP 1, side 1:
Real Love (Lennon) Yes It Is I'm Down You've Got to Hide Your Love Away If You've Got Trouble That Means A Lot Yesterday It's Only Love
LP1, side 2:
I Feel Fine
Ticket To Ride
Yesterday
Help
Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
I'm Looking Through You
12 Bar Original (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starr)
LP2, side 1:
Tomorrow Never Knows
Got to Get You Into My LIfe
And Your Bird Can Sing
Taxman
Eleanor Rigby
I'm Only Sleeping
I'm Only Sleeping
Rock n' Roll Music
She's A Woman
LP2, side 2:
Strawberry Fields Forever (demo)
Strawberry Fields Forever (take 1)
Strawberry Fields Forever (take 7)
Penny Lane
A Day in the Life
Good Morning, Good Morning
Only A Northern Song
LP3, side 1:
Being For the Benefit of Mr.Kite (take 1&2)
Being For the Benefit of Mr.Kite (take 7)
Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds
Within You Without You
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (reprise)
You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)
LP3, side 2:
I Am The Walrus
The Fool on the Hill (demo)
Your Mother Should Know
The Fool on the Hill (take 4)
Hello, Goodbye
Lady Madonna
Across the Universe
"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 CD's 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.
Gatefold (fully opened)
Part of gatefold back
