Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Beginning
2. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
3. Helter Skelter
4. Mean Mr Mustard
5. Polythene Pam
6. Glass Onion
7. Junk
8. Piggies
9. Honey Pie
10. Don't Pass Me By
11. Ob La Di Ob La Da
12. Goodnight
13. Cry Baby Cry
14. Blackbird
15. Sexy Sadie
16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
17. Hey Jude
18. Not Guilty
19. Mother Nature's Son
20. Glass Onion
21. Rocky Raccoon
22. What's The New Mary Jane
23. Step Inside Love/Los Paranoias
24. I'm So Tired
25. I Will
26. Why Don't We Do It In The Road
27. Julia
28. I've Got A Feeling
29. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
30. Dig A Pony
31. Two Of Us
32. For You Blue
33. Teddy Boy
34. Rip It Up/Shake Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes
35. Long And Winding Road
36. Oh Darling
37. All Things Must Pass
38. Mailman Bring Me No More Blues
39. Get Back
40. Old Brown Shoe
41. Octopus's Garden
42. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
43. Something
44. Come Together
45. Come And Get It
46. Ain't She Sweet
47. Because
48. Let It Be
49. I Me Mine
50. End

Disc 2:

1. I've Got A Feeling
2. She Came In Through The Bathroom Window
3. Dig A Pony
4. Two Of Us
5. For You Blue
6. Teddy Boy
7. Rip It Up/Shake Rattle And Roll/Blue Suede Shoes
8. Long And Winding Road
9. Oh Darling
10. All Things Must Pass
11. Mailman Bring Me No More Blues
12. Get Back
13. Old Brown Shoe
14. Octopus's Garden
15. Maxwell's Silver Hammer
16. Something
17. Come Together
18. Come And Get It
19. Ain't She Sweet
20. Because
21. Let It Be
22. I Me Mine
23. End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5677 in Music
• Released on: 1996-10-28
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .43 pounds

CD Description
If ANTHOLOGY: 2 was a study of how a Beatles songs came together, ANTHOLOGY: 3 is a study of how the Beatles themselvescame apart. In the band's final phase, Paul McCartney was an unabashed pop balladeer, John Lennon a sneering pop humorist and experimenter, and Harrison a separate songwriting force waiting to be unleashed. But the demos, rehearsals and outtakes that make up ANTHOLOGY: 3 are brilliant anyway. Lennon's early run-through of "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" is literally bits and pieces--three melodic ideas crammed together, not yet including what would become the song's chorus. There are acoustic demos of two McCartney songs; the gorgeous "Junk", which eventually showed up on his first solo album, and "The Long And Winding Road"--the same performance that appeared on LET IT BE, but without the strings that were added against his will.
The real discoveries are Harrison's solo demos, including electric-guitar-and-vocal performances of "Something" and "All Things Must Pass". They nearly ache withbeauty, and Harrison sings them as if discovering his voicefor the first time. The finished versions pale next to these demos, which are among the highlights of the entire ANTHOLOGY series.

Customer Reviews

Interesting demos, rehearsals, alternative versions
There are some treasures on this set:
The demo recordings at George Harrison's Esher home included on this set show The Beatles' genius at being able to develop an idea and turn it into a song. It is also a great experience to be able to listen in on the rehearsal for John's simple song Goodnight.

The widely-distributed bootleg of George singing While My Guitar Gently Weeps, with accompaniment by Paul on organ is included, as is George's early version of All Things Must Pass. The Beatles made about 100 takes of Not Guilty, but eventually decided not to include it on their double album. It is a better song than some that did make it into the 1968 White album, and worth hearing how it was done by The Beatles, though you can also hear George's own version on his 1979 eponymously named album.

Rumours have it that the original version of Let It Be [originally named Get Back] will be released in 2003. But you can hear some of the original album here with the singalong version of Teddy Boy [with John's sarcastic comments in the background], the shorter version of I Me Mine, the original arrangement of Dig A Pony and the simpler version of Long and Winding Road.

Because sounds stunning as an a cappella version: it must be the most inventive vocal harmony The Beatles ever sang.

Highly recommended: you won't want to listen to this album every day, but it is fun to dig it out and play these alternative versions from time to time.

The best of the three.
This double cd of out-takes and demos is almost like Beatles Unplugged. The sound is out of this world and the songs are ever better! I wasn't sure whether to get this as I have all the albums anyway but I'm so glad I did. There almost like different songs here! If your a beatle fan, you NEED to own this.

Where's the rest?
Some of the songs on this collection are near identical to the ones already released so why the omissions? No Child of Nature, Sour Milk Sea or Circles from the Esher Sessions or Suzy Parker from the Get Back sessions... also Helter skelter fades far too early (it was about 25 mins long)and missed a lot of the band improvising. Apart from that worth it for the acoustic While My Guitar Gently Weeps..