Here’s a look at the big Beatles Anthology box set that’s out tomorrow
When The Beatles were together and recording at Abbey Road (then known as EMI Recording Studios), they saved everything. Because there’s so much stuff in the vault, we’re still getting new Beatles material 55 years after they broke up.
The latest is Anthology 2025, a collection of archival material, the fourth of its kind. Fully remastered by Giles Martin (son of George), its release coincides with the 25th anniversary of the Anthology book. It also continues with the project that was originally launched in 1971(!!!) but took more than two decades to see the light of day.
On November 26, Disney+ will start running the accompanying eight-part Anthology TV series, originally released in the mid-90s but now completely upscaled for 21st viewing. A ninth episode has been added. Peter Jackson, the Lord of Rings director and Beatles superfan who created the Get Back series, was involved in cleaning everything up. (I was at a special screening of the new version of Episode 1 and Episode 9 this week. Brilliant stuff.)
Here’s the tracklisting for the new collection.
Anthology 4 CD Tracklisting
CD Disc One:
I Saw Her Standing There (Take 2)
Money (That’s What I Want) (RM7 undubbed)
This Boy (Takes 12 and 13)
Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5)
If I Fell (Take 11)
Matchbox (Take 1)
Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7)
I Need You (Take 1)
I’ve Just Seen A Face (Take 3)
In My Life (Take 1)
Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2)
Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version – unnumbered mix)
Love You To (Take 7)
Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)
She’s Leaving Home (Take 1 – instrumental)
Baby, You’re A Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12)
All You Need Is Love (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast)
The Fool On The Hill (Take 5 – Instrumental)
I Am The Walrus (Take 19 – strings, brass, clarinet overdub)
CD Disc Two:
Hey Bulldog (Take 4 – instrumental)
Good Night (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 5)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version – Take 27)
(You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care (Studio jam)
Helter Skelter (Second version – Take 17)
I Will (Take 29)
Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)
Julia (Two rehearsals)
Get Back (Take 8)
Octopus’s Garden (Rehearsal)
Don’t Let Me Down (First rooftop performance)
You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)
Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)
Something (Take 39 – instrumental – strings only)
Free As A Bird (2025 mix)
Real Love (2025 mix)
Now And Then
