THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 1 - 1995 Triple Vinyl LPs Nr MINT
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YOU ARE BIDDING FOR A NEAR MINT TRIPLE LP SET OF THE BEATLES ANTHOLOGY 1.PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER ITEMS, I'M ALSO SELLING THE VINYL SETS FOR ANTHOLOGY 2 & 3.

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 1 features rarities, outtakes and live performances from the period 1958–1964, including their days as "The Quarrymen", throughthe Decca audition to sessions for the album Beatles for Sale. It is of historical interest for the only official release of performances withStuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best during the time they were in the band. Sutcliffe, the band's original bass player during 1960 and sporadically during their second Hamburg season, is featured on the disc one tracks "Hallelujah, I Love Her So", "You'll Be Mine" and "Cayenne". Best, who was the band's drummer from just prior to their first departure for Hamburg in August 1960 until 15 August 1962, is featured on disc one tracks 10–12, 15–19 and 21–22.

Disc one tracks 10–12 were recorded at a session in Hamburg where The Beatles served as the back-up band to the English rock and rollmusician Tony Sheridan. Some songs from this session were release on the 1962 LP My Bonnie, credited to Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers. Track 10 feature Sheridans on lead vocals and electric guitar, while tracks 11–12 were the only tracks The Beatles recorded without Sheridan. The song "My Bonnie" would be their introductory single in England. Disc one tracks 21–22 are the only surviving recordings of The Beatles' first EMI session. Track 22 is the original recording of "Love Me Do", which, after Ringo Starr replaced Best, would be re-recorded by the group four months later for their first single. Disc one track 23 features EMI session drummer Andy White in place of Starr.

Disc two contains performances from comedy duo Morecambe and Wise's popular television programme, Two of a Kind, as well as their opening song from their famed performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, which introduced the band to most of America in 1964.

The flashpoint for the album came with the song "Free As A Bird" – the three remaining Beatles Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr re-working a John Lennon demo recording given to McCartney by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono Lennon. Produced by Harrison's Traveling Wilburys band-mate Jeff Lynne, the three added additional music and lyrics, instrumentation and backing vocals, with McCartney and Harrison both taking a turn at a lead vocal.

The album was a large success throughout the world. It was the first Beatles album to officially enter the Billboard 200 album chart straight at number 1 with 855,473 copies sold, making the 27th largest one-week sales in the Soundscan history, succeeding Fresh Horses by Garth Brooks. In its second week Anthology 1 sold 453,000 copies and maintained the top spot. This was repeated the following week, with 435,000 copies sold. In its fourth week the same quantity was sold, but the album fell to #2 behind Mariah Carey's Daydream. In the following week, the album fell to #3 but with 601,000 sales. Anthology 1 was certified 3× Platinum by the RIAA after six weeks in the US market. In all, the album spent 29 weeks inside theBillboard 200, reached cumulative sales of 3,639,000 scans as of April 2001. In the UK, reaction was similar, but the album only reached #2, behind Robson & Jerome's eponymous album. In Australia, the album spent two weeks at #1 in December 1995.

Pete Best's face was torn away from the Savage Young Beatles record jacket in the centre of the album cover, revealing the face of his successor, Ringo Starr, below. The missing piece was subsequently used on the cover of Best's Haymans Green album in 2008.

  1. "Free as a Bird" (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starkey) – 4:25
    • Lennon demo recorded at The Dakota, New York City, 1977; The Beatles version recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London, February and March 1994
  2. "We were four guys ... that's all" (Lennon speaking to Jann Wenner) – 0:12
  3. "That'll Be the Day" [Mono] (Allison-Holly-Petty) – 2:08
  4. "In Spite of All the Danger" [Mono] (McCartney-Harrison) – 2:45
    • Tracks 3–4 recorded at Phillips' Sound Recording Services, Liverpool, summer or spring 1958
  5. "Sometimes I'd borrow ... those still exist" (McCartney speaking to Mark Lewisohn) – 0:18
  6. "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" [Mono] (Charles) – 1:13
  7. "You'll Be Mine" [Mono] – 1:39
  8. "Cayenne" [Mono] (McCartney) – 1:14
    • Tracks 6–8 recorded at McCartney's house in Liverpool, late summer or spring 1960
  9. "First of all ... it didn't do a thing here" (McCartney speaking to Malcom Threadgill) – 0:07
  10. "My Bonnie" (traditional, arranged by Tony Sheridan) – 2:42
  11. "Ain't She Sweet" (Ager-Yellen) – 2:13
  12. "Cry for a Shadow" (Lennon-Harrison) – 2:22
    • Tracks 10–12 recorded at Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg, Germany, 22 June 1961
  13. "Brian was a beautiful guy ... he presented us well" (Lennon speaking to David Wigg) – 0:10
  14. "I secured them ... a Beatle drink even then" (Brian Epstein from A Cellarful of Noise) – 0:18
  15. "Searchin'" [Mono] (Leiber-Stoller) – 3:00
  16. "Three Cool Cats" [Mono] (Leiber-Stoller) – 2:25
  17. "The Sheik of Araby" [Mono] (Smith-Wheeler-Snyder) – 1:43
  18. "Like Dreamers Do" [Mono] – 2:36
  19. "Hello Little Girl" [Mono] – 1:40
    • Tracks 15–19 recorded at Decca Studios, London, 1 January 1962, in audition for Decca Records
  20. "Well, the recording test ... by my artists" (Epstein from A Cellarful of Noise) – 0:32
  21. "Bésame Mucho" [Mono] (Velázquez-Skylar) – 2:37
  22. "Love Me Do" [Mono] – 2:32
    • Tracks 21–22 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 6 June 1962
  23. "How Do You Do It" [Mono] (Murray) – 1:57
    • Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 4 September 1962
  24. "Please Please Me" [Mono] – 1:59
    • Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 11 September 1962
  25. "One After 909" (Sequence) [Mono] – 2:23
  26. "One After 909" (Complete) [Mono] – 2:56
    • Tracks 25–26 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 5 March 1963
  27. "Lend Me Your Comb" [Mono] (Twomey-Wise-Weisman) – 1:50
    • Recorded live at BBC Maida Vale Studios, London, 2 July 1963, for the Pop Go The Beatles radio broadcast
  28. "I'll Get You" [Mono] – 2:08
    • Recorded live on Val Parnell's Sunday Night at the London Palladium, London, 13 October 1963
  29. "We were performers ... in Britain" (Lennon speaking to Jann Wenner) – 0:12
  30. "I Saw Her Standing There" [Mono] – 2:49
  31. "From Me to You" [Mono] – 2:05
  32. "Money (That's What I Want)" [Mono] (Gordy-Bradford) – 2:52
  33. "You Really Got a Hold on Me" [Mono] (Robinson) – 2:58
  34. "Roll Over Beethoven" [Mono] (Berry) – 2:22
    • Tracks 30–34 recorded live at the Karlaplansstudion, Stockholm, Sweden, 24 October 1963, for the Pupgrupp Fran Liverpool Pa Besok I Stockholm (Pop group from Liverpool visiting Stockholm) radio broadcast
  1. "She Loves You" [Mono] – 2:50
  2. "Till There Was You" [Mono] (Willson) – 2:54
  3. "Twist and Shout" [Mono] (Russell-Medley) – 3:05
    • Tracks 1–3 recorded live at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London, 4 November 1963, for the Royal Variety Performance
  4. "This Boy" [Mono] – 2:22
  5. "I Want to Hold Your Hand" [Mono] – 2:37
  6. "Boys, what I was thinking..." (Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise speaking to The Beatles) – 2:06
  7. "Moonlight Bay" [Mono] (Madden-Wenrich) – 0:50
    • Tracks 4–7 recorded live at ATV Studios, London, 2 December 1963, for The Morecambe and Wise Show
  8. "Can't Buy Me Love" (Takes 1 & 2) – 2:10
    • Recorded at Pathé Marconi Studio, Paris, France, 29 January 1964
  9. "All My Loving" [Mono] – 2:19
    • Recorded live at CBS Television Studio, New York City, 9 February 1964, for The Ed Sullivan Show
  10. "You Can't Do That" (Take 6) – 2:42
  11. "And I Love Her" (Take 2) – 1:52
    • Tracks 10–11 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 25 February 1964
  12. "A Hard Day's Night" (Take 1) – 2:44
    • Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 16 April 1964
  13. "I Wanna Be Your Man" – 1:48
  14. "Long Tall Sally" (Johnson-Penniman-Blackwell) – 1:45
  15. "Boys" (Dixon-Farrell) – 1:50
  16. "Shout" (Isley-Isley-Isley) – 1:31
    • Tracks 13–16 recorded live at IBC Studios, London, 19 April 1964, for the Around The Beatles television broadcast
  17. "I'll Be Back" (Take 2) – 1:13
  18. "I'll Be Back" (Take 3) – 1:58
    • Tracks 17–18 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 1 June 1964
  19. "You Know What to Do" (Demo) (Harrison) – 1:59
  20. "No Reply" (Demo) – 1:46
    • Tracks 19–20 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 3 June 1964
  21. "Mr. Moonlight" (Takes 1 & 4) (Johnson) – 2:47
  22. "Leave My Kitten Alone" (Take 5) (John-Turner-McDougal) – 2:57
    • Tracks 21–22 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 14 August 1964
  23. "No Reply" (Take 2) – 2:29
    • Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 30 September 1964
  24. "Eight Days a Week" (Sequence) – 1:25
  25. "Eight Days a Week" (Take 5) – 2:48
    • Tracks 24–25 recorded at EMI Studios, London, 6 October 1964
  26. "Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" (Take 2) (Leiber-Stoller/Penniman) – 2:44
    • Recorded at EMI Studios, London, 18 October 1964

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