The Beatles Anthology Vol.3 - The Beatles

The Best of the Best (101 words)
by Rishi - written on 19/07/00, updated on 19/07/00 (Useful, 17 readings)
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band in the world. They were absolutely brilliant. All four of them had great voices, making fantastic harmonies, and they were all extremely talented musically, especially the predominant songwriters, Paul McCartney and John Lennon. They had some fantastic songs on this anthology, including Let it Be, Hey Jude, The Long and ...

The Beatles Anthology Vol.2 - The Beatles

Better than Vol 1 (164 words)
by simoncardwell - written on 27/05/09 (Useful, 6 readings)
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As a glimpse into the recording process, this works more successfully than Anthology 1. To many this was the Beatles best era, & takes us from Help! through to Magical Mystery Tour in early 1968. Again, this set is started off by another new Beatles track, in the form of Real Love - another Lennon outtake. Working ...

The Beatles Anthology Vol.2 - The Beatles

The years of dash and daring (434 words)
by JOHNDMR - written on 18/11/00, updated on 18/11/00 (Very useful, 16 readings)
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publicist Derek Taylor, documented 'the years of dash and daring', which began with ‘Ticket To Ride’ in 1965, spanned the seminal 'Revolver' and culminated in the psychedelic mayhem that was 1967. Nearly all these songs are alternate takes, demos and rehearsal recordings of songs which they released at the time, like a very different early run-through of 'Got To Get You Into My Life', a hilarious version of ‘And Your Bird Can Sing’ which ends in hysterical laughter (put those, erm, jazz cigarettes away, boys), and instrumental takes of ‘Eleanor Rigby’ and the sitar extravaganza ‘Within You Without ...