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Anthology 3

The third of the Anthology double albums: White Album demos and outtakes through to Let It Be and Abbey Road, a US number one in 1996.
The Beatles, 1996

Released on 28 October 1996 by Apple and Capitol with a Klaus Voormann cover painting, it gathers recordings from 28 May 1968 to 3 January 1970 at EMI Studios and Apple Studios, produced by George Martin. Disc one opens with the Esher demos and White Album takes and includes "Not Guilty" in its Take 102 edit, "Hey Jude" at Take 2 and "What's the New Mary Jane"; disc two runs through the Get Back sessions, the rooftop "Get Back", the "All Things Must Pass" and "Something" demos, "Come and Get It" and ends with "The End" and the final chord of "A Day in the Life". The two-CD set is 7243 8 34451 2 7, CDPCSP 729 in Britain, with a three-LP pressing.

It entered the Billboard 200 at number one, the third Anthology set in a row to do so, and reached 4 in Britain, 3 in Australia and Canada and 5 in Japan, going triple platinum in the United States and platinum in Britain. AllMusic, Rolling Stone and Q gave it four stars and Entertainment Weekly a B. It is the companion to the 1995 television series, and its sessions are where the Lennon demo of "Now and Then" was tried and shelved before being finished in 2023.

Track listing

  1. A Beginning0:50
  2. Happiness Is a Warm Gun (demo)2:15
  3. Helter Skelter (Take 2)4:38
  4. Mean Mr. Mustard (demo)1:58
  5. Polythene Pam (demo)1:26
  6. Glass Onion (demo)1:51
  7. Junk (demo)2:25
  8. Piggies (demo)2:01
  9. Honey Pie (demo)1:19
  10. Don't Pass Me By (Takes 3 and 5)2:42
  11. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (Take 5)2:56
  12. Good Night (Takes 22 and 34)2:38
  13. Cry Baby Cry (Take 1)2:46
  14. Blackbird (Take 4)2:19
  15. Sexy Sadie (Take 6)4:07
  16. While My Guitar Gently Weeps (acoustic, Take 1)3:28
  17. Hey Jude (Take 2)4:21
  18. Not Guilty (Take 102)3:22
  19. Mother Nature's Son (Take 2)3:17
  20. Glass Onion (original mono mix)2:08
  21. Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)4:13
  22. What's the New Mary Jane (Take 4)6:12
  23. Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias2:31
  24. I'm So Tired (Takes 3, 6 and 9)2:14
  25. I Will (Take 1)1:55
  26. Why Don't We Do It in the Road? (Take 4)2:15
  27. Julia (Take 2)1:58
  28. I've Got a Feeling2:49
  29. She Came In Through the Bathroom Window3:37
  30. Dig a Pony4:18
  31. Two of Us3:27
  32. For You Blue (Take 1)2:23
  33. Teddy Boy3:18
  34. Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll / Blue Suede Shoes3:11
  35. The Long and Winding Road3:42
  36. Oh! Darling4:07
  37. All Things Must Pass (demo)3:05
  38. Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues1:56
  39. Get Back (rooftop)3:09
  40. Old Brown Shoe (demo)3:03
  41. Octopus's Garden (Takes 2 and 8)2:49
  42. Maxwell's Silver Hammer (Take 5)3:50
  43. Something (demo)3:19
  44. Come Together (Take 1)3:40
  45. Come and Get It (demo)2:30
  46. Ain't She Sweet2:08
  47. Because (a cappella)2:24
  48. Let It Be4:05
  49. I Me Mine (Take 16)1:48
  50. The End2:53

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Sources

  1. Anthology 3, Wikipedia