THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 3 - 1996 Triple Vinyl LPs Nr MINT

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To accompany the Anthology series, three double music albums were released, each containing two CDs or three vinyl discs of mostly never-before-released Beatles material (the exceptions being the Tony Sheridan era material), although many of the tracks had appeared on bootlegs for many years prior.

Two days after the first television special in the series had aired, Anthology 1 was released to stores, and included music recorded by The Quarrymen, the famous Decca Recordsaudition tapes, and various out-takes and demos from the band's first four albums. It also included the song "Lend Me Your Comb", omitted from the collection Live at the BBC, released the previous year (1994). The song "Free as a Bird" was included at the very start. 450,000 copies of Anthology 1 were sold in its first day of release, the most sales for an album in a single day ever. The Beatles' original drummer Pete Best, fired by the band in 1962 before they hit it big, received his first substantial Beatles royalties from this album, for the inclusion of early tracks on which he played.

On March 17, 1996, Anthology 2 was released. The second collection presented out-takes and demos from the Beatles' sessions for Help!, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Magical Mystery Tour. These included selected early demos and takes for Lennon's "Strawberry Fields Forever", previously available only to bootleg collectors. The new song "Real Love" — which, like "Free as a Bird", was based on an unfinished Lennon recording — was also included in the two-CD collection.

On October 28, 1996, Anthology 3 was released. The third collection featured out-takes and demos from The White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be.

The three album covers, when laid side-by-side, become one long painted collage of various peeling posters and album covers representing the different stages of The Beatles' career. This was the work of Klaus Voormann, who also created the album cover for Revolver in 1966. The Anthology covers required Voormann to recreate elements of his cover for Revolverwithin the collage. During the music video for "Free as a Bird", the Anthology collage appears as posters on a shop window as the camera pans quickly across the street. The design also adorned the VHS, laserdisc and DVD releases, again to be properly encountered by laying the cases side-by-side. Upon the release of Anthology 3, HMV stores made available a cardboard sleeve designed to hold all three CD volumes of which each side of the sleeve make up half of the collage.

Anthology 3 is a compilation album by The Beatles released in October 1996 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. The album includes rarities and alternative tracks from the final two years of the band's career, ranging from the initial sessions for The Beatles(also known as The White Album) to the last sessions for Let It Be and Abbey Road in later 1969 and early 1970.

Following "Free as a Bird" in Anthology 1 and "Real Love" in Anthology 2, a third John Lennon solo demo entitled "Now and Then" was to be reworked by the three surviving members of The Beatles for Anthology 3. However, it was decided against due to complications and sound quality issues involving Lennon's recording. In its place is "A Beginning," an orchestral instrumental track initially intended for The White Album.

Similar to the previous Anthology albums, the cover image painted by Klaus Voorman features a collage of The Beatles-related imagery designed to appear as a wall of peeling posters and album covers. An updated picture of Voorman can be seen in George Harrison's hair in a segment of the Revolver album cover.

This was the group's third double album in a row to go to #1 on the American charts, equaling a record set by Donna Summer back in the 1970s.

1. "A Beginning" (Martin) – 0:50
   • Recorded on 22 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
2. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (Kinfauns Home Demo) [Mono] – 2:15
   • Recorded on 28 May 1968 at Kinfauns, George Harrison's home in Surrey.
3. "Helter Skelter" (Edited Take 2) [Mono] – 4:38
   • Recorded on 18 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
4. "Mean Mr. Mustard" (Kinfauns Home Demo) – 1:58
5. "Polythene Pam" (Kinfauns Home Demo) – 1:26
   • Tracks 4 & 5 recorded on 29 May 1968 at Kinfauns.
6. "Glass Onion" (Kinfauns Home Demo) – 1:51
7. "Junk" (Kinfauns Home Demo) (McCartney) – 2:25
8. "Piggies" (Kinfauns Home Demo) [Mono] (Harrison) – 2:01
9. "Honey Pie" (Kinfauns Home Demo, Edited from 2:01) – 1:19
   • Tracks 6–9 recorded on 28 May 1968 at Kinfauns.
10. "Don't Pass Me By" (Takes 3 & 5) (Starkey) – 2:42
    • Recorded on 5 June 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
11. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Take 5) – 2:56
    • Recorded on 3 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
12. "Good Night" (Rehearsal & Take 34) – 2:38
    • Recorded on 28 June & 22 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
13. "Cry Baby Cry" (Take 1) – 2:47
    • Recorded on 15 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
14. "Blackbird" (Take 4) – 2:19
    • Recorded on 11 June 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
15. "Sexy Sadie" (Take 6) – 4:06
    • Recorded on 19 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
16. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Demo) (Harrison) – 3:27
    • Recorded on 25 July, 1968 at EMI Studios, London.
17. "Hey Jude" (Take 2) – 4:21
    • Recorded on 29 July 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
18. "Not Guilty" (Take 102) (Harrison) – 3:22
    • Recorded on 7 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
19. "Mother Nature's Son" (Take 2) – 3:17
    • Recorded on 9 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
20. "Glass Onion" (Take 33) [Mono] – 2:08
    • Recorded on 11 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
21. "Rocky Raccoon" (Take 8) – 4:13
    • Recorded on 15 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
22. "What's the New Mary Jane" (Take 4) – 6:12
    • Recorded on 14 August 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
23. "Step Inside Love"/"Los Paranoias" – 2:30
    • Recorded on 16 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
24. "I'm So Tired" (Takes 3, 6 & 9) – 2:14
    • Recorded on 8 October 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
25. "I Will" (Take 1) – 1:55
    • Recorded on 16 September 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
26. "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" (Take 4) – 2:15
    • Recorded on 9 October 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
27. "Julia" (Take 2) – 1:57
    • Recorded on 13 October 1968 at Abbey Road Studios, London.

1. "I've Got a Feeling" (Savile Row) – 2:49
   • Recorded on 24 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
2. "She Came in Through the Bathroom Window" (Rehearsal) (Savile Row) – 3:37
3. "Dig a Pony" (Savile Row) – 4:18
   • Tracks 2 & 3 recorded on 22 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
4. "Two of Us" (Savile Row) – 3:27
   • Recorded on 24 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
5. "For You Blue" (Savile Row) (George Harrison) – 2:23
   • Recorded on 25 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
6. "Teddy Boy" (Savile Row) (Paul McCartney) – 3:18
   • Recorded on 24 & 28 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
7. Medley: "Rip It Up" (Blackwell-Marascalco)/"Shake, Rattle and Roll" (Calhoun)/"Blue Suede Shoes" (Perkins) (Savile Row) – 3:10
8. "The Long and Winding Road" (Savile Row) – 3:41
   • Tracks 7 & 8 recorded on 26 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
9. "Oh! Darling" (Savile Row, Edited from 6:37) – 4:08
   • Recorded on 27 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
10. "All Things Must Pass" (Demo) (Harrison) – 3:05
    • Recorded on 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
11. "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" (Savile Row) (Ruth Roberts, Bill Katz, Stanley Clayton) – 1:56
    • Recorded on 29 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
12. "Get Back" (Live at the "Rooftop Concert") – 3:09
    • Recorded on 30 January 1969 on the Apple Building Rooftop, Savile Row, London.
13. "Old Brown Shoe" (Demo) (Harrison) – 3:03
    • Recorded on 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
14. "Octopus's Garden" (Takes 2 & 8) (Starkey) – 2:49
    • Recorded on 26 April 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
15. "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (Take 5) – 3:50
    • Recorded on 9 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
16. "Something" (Demo) [Mono] (Harrison) – 3:19
    • Recorded on 25 February 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
17. "Come Together" (Take 1) – 3:40
    • Recorded on 21 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
18. "Come and Get It" (Demo) (Paul McCartney) – 2:30
19. "Ain't She Sweet" (Jam) (Ager-Yellen) – 2:09
    • Tracks 18 & 19 recorded on 24 July 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.
20. "Because" (A cappella version) – 2:24
    • Recorded on 1 August 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London. Vocal arrangement by George Martin.
21. "Let It Be" (Savile Row) – 4:05
    • Recorded on 25 January 1969 at Apple Studios, Savile Row, London.
22. "I Me Mine" (Take 16) (Harrison) – 1:48
    • Recorded on 3 January 1970 at Abbey Road Studios, London. John Lennon was not present.
23. "The End" (Remix) – 2:51
    • Recorded: 23 July; 5, 7, 8, 15 & 18 August 1969 at Abbey Road Studios, London.