the beatles anthology by the beatles book

The outtakes mostly date from the time when The Beatles were working on the Sgt Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour projects, in addition to the early 1968 sessions in which they recorded ‘Lady Madonna’ and ‘Across The Universe’. He reportedly paid the reprinting costs for the cover himself.ĭisc two contains studio outtakes from 1966 to 1968, plus ‘You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)’, a 1967 recording containing overdubs from 1969. ‘I’m Down’ had originally been sequenced chronologically as track seven, but was moved to track three at Paul McCartney’s request.

The two other live performances – ‘Rock And Roll Music’ and ‘She’s A Woman’ – were both from the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan, on 30 June 1966. ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘Ticket To Ride’, ‘Yesterday’, and ‘Help!’ were all recorded on 1 August 1965 for the television special Blackpool Night Out, while ‘Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby’ was from The Beatles’ first Shea Stadium show on 15 August 1965. There were seven live songs on Anthology 2. ‘If You’ve Got Trouble’ was sung by Starr, while ‘That Means A Lot’ was sung by McCartney and later given to singer PJ Proby. ‘If You’ve Got Trouble’ and ‘That Means A Lot’ were both recorded during the Help! sessions. The other two compositions were both by Lennon-McCartney. ’12-Bar Original’ was a blues jam recorded during the Rubber Soul sessions, and credited to Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey. The first disc contains three previously-unreleased Beatles compositions.

Paul McCartney Q magazine, October 1996 The songsĪnthology 2 begins with ‘Real Love’, based on a demo recording by John Lennon, and augmented by Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

The beatles anthology by the beatles book