1996: THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY III

Apple/October 28, 1996. PCSP 729

Produced by George Martin

LP 1, side 1: 

A Beginning (George Martin) 
Happiness Is A Warm Gun 
Helter Skelter 
Mean Mr. Mustard 
Polythene Pam 
Glass Onion 
Junk (McCartney) 
Piggies 
Honey Pie 

LP1, side 2:

Don't Pass Me By 
Ob-la-di Ob-la-da 
Good Night 
Cry Baby Cry 
Blackbird 
Sexy Sadie 
While My Guitar Gently Weeps 
Hey Jude 
Not Guilty (Harrison) 

LP1, side 2:

Mother Nature's Son 
Glass Onion 
Rocky Raccoon 
What's The New Mary Jane (Lennon/McCartney) 
Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey) 
I'm So Tired 
I Will 
Why Don't We Do It In The Road 
Julia 

LP2, side 1:

I've Got A Feeling 
She Came In Through The Bathroom Window 
Dig A Pony 
Two Of Us 
For You Blue 

LP2, side 2:

Teddy Boy (McCartney) 
Rip It Up (Blackwell-Marascalco)/Shake, Rattle and Roll (Calhoun)/Blue Suede Shoes (Perkins) 
The Long and Winding Road 
Oh Darling 
All Things Must Pass (Harrison)

LP3, side 1:

Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues (Roberts-Katz-Clayton) 
Get Back 
Old Brown Shoe 
Octopus's Garden 
Maxwell's Silver Hammer 
Something 

LP3, side 2:

Come Together 
Come and Get It (McCartney) 
Ain't She Sweet 
Because 
Let It Be 
I Me Mine 
The End

"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.