Review: The Beatles Anthology: the flammed together ‘new episode’ feels totally pointless

There’s no doubt that the arrival of The Beatles Anthology in 1995 was a big deal. The TV series was broadcast at prime time on both sides of the Atlantic, and ABC in the US even changed its name to ABeatlesC in its honour. The three accompanying albums (the first time the Beatles had allowed outtakes from their recording sessions to be officially released) sold in their millions. Its success helped kickstart the latterday Beatles industry, a steady stream of officially sanctioned documentaries, reissues, remixes, compilations and expanded editions, predicated on two ideas: that the Beatles’ archive contains fathomless bounty; and that the band’s story is so rich there’s no limit to the number of times it can fruitfully be retold in fresh light.

For a while, those ideas seemed to hold true, but recently, it’s been hard not to think the Beatles’ Apple Corps might be trying to feed an insatiable appetite for content from an increasingly bare cupboard. You can marvel at the highlights of Peter Jackson’s TV series Get Back and still wonder whether the director wasn’t stretching his material a little thin; whether nearly eight hours of it – plus a separate Imax film of the Beatles’ final live performance on the roof of Apple’s London HQ, and a reissue of the original 1970 Let It Be documentary – might have been rather too much of a good thing.

Last year’s Martin Scorsese-produced Beatles ’64, meanwhile, just re-edited familiar footage – much of it from the Maysles Brothers’ 1964 documentary, What’s Happening! The Beatles in the USA, reissued in 1991 as The First US Visit, then again by Apple in 2004 – and spliced it with new interviews that suggested everything that needed to be said about the events of 1964 had already been said, and the two surviving Beatles had run out of new angles on a subject they had been answering questions about for 60 years.

A similar sense of pointlessness attends the new version of Anthology. It arrives with a fourth album of outtakes, but 23 of its 36 tracks have been previously released, which means vinyl buyers are being asked to cough up nearly 70 quid for 50 minutes of “new” music, most of which is pretty inconsequential to all but the most banzai Fabs devotee. There’s no sign of Carnival of Light, the near-mythic Stockhausen-influenced experiment the band recorded during the Sgt Pepper sessions, nor the fabled 27-minute version of Helter Skelter. Instead, you have to make do with a wobbly first take of their cover of Carl Perkins’ Matchbox.

George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison in The Beatles Anthology.

Rock aristocracy … George Martin, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and George Harrison in The Beatles Anthology. Photograph: PR

There’s also an “all-new” episode of the TV series, concentrating on the making of the original Anthology documentary and Free as a Bird and Real Love, the two John Lennon demos the surviving members worked up into songs in the mid-90s. These events are now as far in the past as Beatlemania was when the Anthology series was produced: bizarrely, the footage from 30 years ago – a riot of ponytails, mullets, leather waistcoats and stonewashed denim – looks more dated than that from the 60s, the clothes sported by 90s rock aristocrats having yet to pass into the realm of classic style.

The problem is, the new episode isn’t all-new at all. It’s essentially the bonus material from the 2003 DVD edition of Anthology padded out to 50 minutes: the three surviving Beatles being interviewed together at George Harrison’s home and at Abbey Road, loosely jamming old rock’n’roll songs – and an early McCartney effort, Thinking of Linking – on acoustic guitars and ukuleles; working on the new tracks at Paul McCartney’s home studio with producer Jeff Lynne; and sitting at a mixing desk while George Martin plays them multitrack recordings from the 60s.

Some of the footage is sweet – there’s a lovely moment where Ringo addresses his bandmates with a plaintive “I like hanging out with you guys” – and some of it is oddly telling: you could divine a lot from George Harrison’s visible exasperation as the sessions for Free as a Bird and Real Love drag on. (Off camera, he famously refused to work on a third Lennon demo, Now and Then, deeming it “fucking rubbish”. McCartney and Starr eventually finished the track in 2023, 22 years after Harrison’s death.)

McCartney has a funny story about getting Abbey Road’s recalcitrant engineers to keep working on Beatles sessions past their allotted hours by covertly dosing the studio’s tea urn with amphetamines. It’s nice to see them together and more or less happy, although you can’t miss a certain tension between Harrison and McCartney. When Martin plays the multitrack of the latter’s You Never Give Me Your Money, Harrison suggests it sounds “a bit cheesy”. McCartney is noticeably unamused.

None of it is essential or particularly insightful. Like the Anthology 4 album, it’s been flammed together to suggest added value, that there’s something new to say about a subject that may well have been exhausted.

The Beatles Anthology is on Disney+ now. The album Anthology 4 is out now on Apple Records

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/26/the-beatles-anthology-new-tv-episode-feels-pointless

Beatles Anthology Collection - 8 CDs & vinyl albums released 11-21-25

 

4 x 2CD albums in gatefold digisleeves with booklets in slipcase, Release date: 21 November, 2025

The Anthology Collection 8CD set includes the three groundbreaking Anthology albums from the mid-1990s, remastered in 2025 by Giles Martin, plus a new compilation, Anthology 4. Containing 191 tracks, the collection’s studio outtakes, live performances, broadcasts and demos reveal the musical development of The Beatles from 1958 to the final single ‘Now And Then’ released in 2023.

Anthology 4 features 13 previously unreleased tracks and 17 songs selected from Super Deluxe versions of five classic albums. In addition to fascinating outtakes dating from 1963 to 1969, the album includes new 2025 mixes by Jeff Lynne of ‘Free As A Bird’ and ‘Real Love’. Furthermore, Anthology 4 presents 17 tracks that were previously unavailable on CD.

Each 2CD album in the set is housed in a gatefold digisleeve, with a 40+ page booklet featuring the original art, sleevenotes by Mark Lewisohn, and restored photos for Anthology 1-3; Anthology 4 has brand new sleevenotes written by Kevin Howlett alongside photos. The outer slipcase features the original Klaus Voorman triptych art, and a 3/4 O-Card image of the band with track listing.

8CD Track list, Anthology 1-3 track listing remains as per original releases. Below is a more complete track listing with historical dates from Wikipedia:

Anthology Volume 1- Disc One
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "Free as a Bird" John LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonRingo Starr c. 1977; February–March 1994 in The Dakota, New York City, New York, US; Hogg Hill Mill, Icklesham, UK[8]    4:25
2.    "We were four guys ... that's all" (Lennon speaking to Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone) 8 December 1970 in New York City    0:12
3.    "That'll Be the Day" (by the Quarrymen; mono), Jerry AllisonBuddy HollyNorman Petty, 12 July 1958 in Phillips' Sound Recording Services, Liverpool, UK    2:08
4.    "In Spite of All the Danger" (by the Quarrymen; mono)    McCartneyHarrison, 12 July 1958 in Phillips' Sound Recording Services    2:45
5.    "Sometimes I'd borrow ... those still exist" (McCartney speaking to Mark Lewisohn).    3 November 1994 in London, UK    0:18
6.    "Hallelujah, I Love Her So" (home demo; mono)    Ray Charles    1960 in 20 Forthlin Road, Liverpool    1:13
7.    "You'll Be Mine" (home demo; mono)         1960 in 20 Forthlin Road 1:39
8.    "Cayenne" (instrumental) (home demo; mono)    McCartney    1960 in 20 Forthlin Road 1:14
9.    "First of all ... it didn't do a thing here" (McCartney speaking to Malcolm Threadgill),27 October 1962 in Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight, UK    0:07
10.    "My Bonnie" (by Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers) trad. arr. Tony Sheridan,22 June 1961 in Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg, Germany    2:42
11.    "Ain't She Sweet" (by the Beat Brothers)  Milton AgerJack Yellen, 22 June 1961 in Friedrich-Ebert-Halle    2:13
12.    "Cry for a Shadow" (instrumental) (by the Beat Brothers), LennonHarrison,    22 June 1961 in Friedrich-Ebert-Halle    2:22
13.    "Brian was a beautiful guy ... he presented us well" (Lennon speaking to David Wigg for BBC Radio 1's Scene and Heard)         October 1971 in New York City    0:10
14.    "I secured them ... a Beatle drink even then" (Brian Epstein reading from A Cellarful of Noise)    Brian Epstein    13 October 1964 in EMI Studios, London    0:18
15.    "Searchin'" (Decca audition; mono),Jerry LeiberMike Stoller, 1 January 1962 in Decca Studios, London    3:00
16.    "Three Cool Cats" (Decca audition; mono),LeiberStoller,    1 January 1962 in Decca Studios    2:25
17.    "The Sheik of Araby" (Decca audition; mono),Harry B. SmithFrancis WheelerTed Snyder,1 January 1962 in Decca Studios    1:43
18.    "Like Dreamers Do" (Decca audition; mono), 1 January 1962 in Decca Studios    2:36
19.    "Hello Little Girl" (Decca audition; mono),    1 January 1962 in Decca Studios    1:40
20.    "Well, the recording test ... by my artists" (Epstein reading from A Cellarful of Noise),Epstein,13 October 1964 in EMI Studios    0:32
21.    "Besame Mucho" (mono),Consuelo VelázquezSunny Skylar, 6 June 1962 in EMI Studios    2:37
22.    "Love Me Do" (mono),6 June 1962 in EMI Studios    2:32
23.    "How Do You Do It" (mono),Mitch Murray    4 September 1962 in EMI Studios    1:57
24.    "Please Please Me" (mono), 11 September 1962 in EMI Studios    1:59
25.    "One After 909" (sequence) (takes 3, 4 & 5; mono), 5 March 1963 in EMI Studios    2:23
26.    "One After 909" (complete) (takes 4 & 5; mono),5 March 1963 in EMI Studios    2:56
27.    "Lend Me Your Comb" (live at the BBC for Pop Go the Beatles; mono)Kay TwomeyFred WiseBen Weisman,2 July 1963 in Maida Vale Studios, London    1:50
28.    "I'll Get You" (live on Sunday Night at the London Palladium; mono),13 October 1963 in The London Palladium, London    2:08
29.    "We were performers ... in Britain" (Lennon speaking to Wenner),8 December 1970 in New York City    0:12
30.    "I Saw Her Standing There" (live for The Beatles, Pop Group from Liverpool Visiting Stockholm; mono),24 October 1963 in The Karlaplansstudion, Stockholm, Sweden    2:49
31.    "From Me to You" (live for The Beatles, Pop Group from Liverpool Visiting Stockholm; mono),    24 October 1963 in The Karlaplansstudion    2:05
32.    "Money (That's What I Want)" (live for The Beatles, Pop Group from Liverpool Visiting Stockholm; mono),Janie BradfordBerry Gordy,24 October 1963 in The Karlaplansstudion,2:52
33.    "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (live for The Beatles, Pop Group from Liverpool Visiting Stockholm; mono)    Smokey Robinson    24 October 1963 in The Karlaplansstudion,2:58
34.    "Roll Over Beethoven" (live for The Beatles, Pop Group from Liverpool Visiting Stockholm; mono)    Chuck Berry    24 October 1963 in The Karlaplansstudion,2:22
Total length:    65:22

Disc Two
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "She Loves You" (live on the Royal Variety Performance; mono), 4 November 1963 in The Prince of Wales Theatre, London    2:50
2.    "Till There Was You" (live on the Royal Variety Performance; mono),Meredith Willson    4 November 1963 in The Prince of Wales Theatre    2:54
3.    "Twist and Shout" (live on the Royal Variety Performance; mono),Bert RussellPhil Medley,4 November 1963 in The Prince of Wales Theatre    3:05
4.    "This Boy" (live on Two of a Kind; mono),2 December 1963 in ATV Studios, London    2:22
5.    "I Want to Hold Your Hand" (live on Two of a Kind; mono),2 December 1963 in ATV Studios    2:37
6.    "Boys, what I was thinking..." (Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise speaking to the Beatles live on Two of a Kind),2 December 1963 in ATV Studios    2:06
7.    "Moonlight Bay" (live on Two of a Kind; mono),Edward MaddenPercy Wenrich,2 December 1963 in ATV Studios    0:50
8.    "Can't Buy Me Love" (takes 1 & 2),29 January 1964 in Pathé Marconi, Paris, France    2:10
9.    "All My Loving" (live on The Ed Sullivan Show; mono)         9 February 1964 in CBS-TV Studio 50, New York City    2:19
10.    "You Can't Do That" (take 6),25 February 1964 in EMI Studios    2:42
11.    "And I Love Her" (take 2),25 February 1964 in EMI Studios    1:52
12.    "A Hard Day's Night" (take 1),16 April 1964 in EMI Studios    2:44
13.    "I Wanna Be Your Man" (live for Around the Beatles),19 April 1964 in IBC Studios, London    1:48
14.    "Long Tall Sally" (live for Around the Beatles),Enotris JohnsonRichard PennimanRobert Blackwell,19 April 1964 in IBC Studios    1:45
15.    "Boys" (live for Around the Beatles),Luther DixonWes Farrell,19 April 1964 in IBC Studios    1:50
16.    "Shout" (live for Around the Beatles),Rudolph IsleyRonald IsleyO'Kelly Isley Jr,19 April 1964 in IBC Studios    1:31
17.    "I'll Be Back" (take 2),1 June 1964 in EMI Studios    1:13
18.    "I'll Be Back" (take 3),1 June 1964 in EMI Studios    1:58
19.    "You Know What to Do" (demo),Harrison,3 June 1964 in EMI Studios    1:59
20.    "No Reply" (demo),3 June 1964 in EMI Studios    1:46
21.    "Mr. Moonlight" (takes 1 & 4)    Roy Lee Johnson    14 August 1964 in EMI Studios    2:47
22.    "Leave My Kitten Alone" (take 5),Little Willie JohnTitus TurnerJames McDougal,14 August 1964 in EMI Studios    2:57
23.    "No Reply" (take 2),30 September 1964 in EMI Studios    2:29
24.    "Eight Days a Week" (sequence) (takes 1, 2 & 4),6 October 1964 in EMI Studios    1:25
25.    "Eight Days a Week" (complete) (take 5),6 October 1964 in EMI Studios    2:48
26.    "Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!" (take 2),LeiberStoller / Penniman,    18 October 1964 in EMI Studios    2:44
Total length:    57:31

Anthology Volume 2- Disc One
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "Real Love"    John Lennon    c. July 1980 in The Dakota, New York City, New York US; February 1995 in Hogg Hill Mill, Icklesham, UK[16]    3:54
2.    "Yes It Is" (Takes 2 & 14)         16 February 1965 in EMI Studios, London, UK    1:50
3.    "I'm Down" (Take 1)         14 June 1965 in EMI Studios    2:53
4.    "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Takes 1, 2 & 5; mono)         18 February 1965 in EMI Studios    2:45
5.    "If You've Got Trouble"         18 February 1965 in EMI Studios    2:48
6.    "That Means A Lot" (Take 1)         20 February 1965 in EMI Studios    2:27
7.    "Yesterday" (Take 1)         14 June 1965 in EMI Studios    2:34
8.    "It's Only Love" (Takes 3 & 2; mono)         15 June 1965 in EMI Studios    1:59
9.    "I Feel Fine" (live on Blackpool Night Out; mono)         1 August 1965 in ABC Theatre, Blackpool, UK    2:16
10.    "Ticket to Ride" (live on Blackpool Night Out; mono)         1 August 1965 in ABC Theatre    2:45
11.    "Yesterday" (live on Blackpool Night Out; mono)         1 August 1965 in ABC Theatre    2:43
12.    "Help!" (live on Blackpool Night Out; mono)         1 August 1965 in ABC Theatre    2:55
13.    "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby" (live at Shea Stadium; mono)    Carl Perkins    15 August 1965 in Shea Stadium, New York City    2:45
14.    "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Take 1)         12 October 1965 in EMI Studios    1:59
15.    "I'm Looking Through You" (Take 1)         24 October 1965 in EMI Studios    2:54
16.    "12-Bar Original" (Take 2 edited), LennonPaul McCartneyGeorge HarrisonRichard Starkey,    4 November 1965 in EMI Studios    2:55
17.    "Tomorrow Never Knows" ("Mark 1" / Take 1)         6 April 1966 in EMI Studios    3:14
18.    "Got to Get You into My Life" (Take 5; mono)         7 April 1966 in EMI Studios    2:54
19.    "And Your Bird Can Sing" (Take 2)         20 April 1966 in EMI Studios    2:13
20.    "Taxman" (Take 11)    Harrison    21 April 1966 in EMI Studios    2:32
21.    "Eleanor Rigby (strings only)" (Take 14)         28 April 1966 in EMI Studios    2:06
22.    "I'm Only Sleeping (rehearsal)" (mono)         29 April 1966 in EMI Studios    0:41
23.    "I'm Only Sleeping (Take 1)" (mono)         29 April 1966 in EMI Studios    2:59
24.    "Rock and Roll Music" (live in Tokyo; mono)    Chuck Berry    30 June 1966 in Nippon Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan    1:39
25.    "She's a Woman" (live in Tokyo; mono)         30 June 1966 in Nippon Budokan Hall    2:55
Total length:    63:35

Disc Two
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "Strawberry Fields Forever (demo sequence)" (mono)         24 November 1966 in Kenwood, Weybridge, UK    1:42
2.    "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Take 1)         24 November 1966 in EMI Studios    2:35
3.    "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Take 7 and edit piece; mono)         29 November & 9 December 1966 in EMI Studios    4:14
4.    "Penny Lane" (remix)         29 December 1966 – 17 January 1967 in EMI Studios    3:13
5.    "A Day in the Life" (Takes 1, 2, 6 & orchestra)         19–20 January & 10 February 1967 in EMI Studios    5:05
6.    "Good Morning Good Morning" (Take 8)         8 & 16 February 1967 in EMI Studios    2:40
7.    "Only a Northern Song" (Takes 3 & 12)    Harrison    13–14 February & 20 April 1967 in EMI Studios    2:44
8.    "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Takes 1 and 2)"         17 February 1967 in EMI Studios    1:05
9.    "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite! (Take 7)"         17 & 20 February 1967 in EMI Studios    2:34
10.    "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Takes 6, 7 & 8)         1–2 March 1967 in EMI Studios    3:06
11.    "Within You Without You (instrumental)"    Harrison    15 March – 3 April 1967 in EMI Studios    5:27
12.    "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" (Take 5; mono)         1 April 1967 in EMI Studios    1:27
13.    "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)" (extended stereo remix)         17 May & 7–8 June 1967; 30 April 1969 in EMI Studios    5:43
14.    "I Am the Walrus" (Take 16)         5 September 1967 in EMI Studios    4:02
15.    "The Fool on the Hill (demo)" (mono)         6 September 1967 in EMI Studios    2:48
16.    "Your Mother Should Know" (Take 27)         16 September 1967 in EMI Studios    3:02
17.    "The Fool on the Hill (Take 4)"         25 September 1967 in EMI Studios    3:45
18.    "Hello, Goodbye" (Take 16)         2 & 19 October 1967 in EMI Studios    3:18
19.    "Lady Madonna" (Takes 3 & 4)         3 & 6 February 1968 in EMI Studios    2:22
20.    "Across the Universe" (Take 2)         4 February 1968 in EMI Studios    3:29
Total length:    64:21

Anthology Volume 3 - Disc One
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "A Beginning" (instrumental)    George Martin    22 July 1968 EMI Studios, London, UK    0:50
2.    "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" (home demo; mono)         28 May 1968 Kinfauns, Esher, UK    2:15
3.    "Helter Skelter" (Take 2 edited; mono)         18 July 1968 EMI Studios    4:38
4.    "Mean Mr. Mustard" (home demo)         29 May 1968 Kinfauns    1:58
5.    "Polythene Pam" (home demo)         29 May 1968 Kinfauns    1:26
6.    "Glass Onion" (home demo)         28 May 1968 Kinfauns    1:51
7.    "Junk" (home demo)    Paul McCartney    28 May 1968 Kinfauns    2:25
8.    "Piggies" (home demo; mono)    George Harrison    28 May 1968 Kinfauns    2:01
9.    "Honey Pie" (home demo)         28 May 1968 Kinfauns    1:19
10.    "Don't Pass Me By" (Takes 3 & 5)    Richard Starkey    5–6 June 1968 EMI Studios    2:42
11.    "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (Take 5)         3–5 July 1968 EMI Studios    2:56
12.    "Good Night" (Takes 22 & 34)         28 June & 22 July 1968 EMI Studios    2:38
13.    "Cry Baby Cry" (Take 1)         16 July 1968 EMI Studios    2:46
14.    "Blackbird" (Take 4)         11 June 1968 EMI Studios    2:19
15.    "Sexy Sadie" (Take 6)         19 July 1968 EMI Studios    4:07
16.    "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Acoustic Version: Take 1)    Harrison    25 July 1968 EMI Studios    3:28
17.    "Hey Jude" (Take 2)         29 July 1968 EMI Studios    4:21
18.    "Not Guilty" (Take 102)    Harrison    8–9 & 12 August 1968 EMI Studios    3:22
19.    "Mother Nature's Son" (Take 2)         9 August 1968 EMI Studios    3:17
20.    "Glass Onion" (original mono mix)         11–13, 16 & 26 September 1968 EMI Studios    2:08
21.    "Rocky Raccoon" (Take 8)         15 August 1968 EMI Studios    4:13
22.    "What's the New Mary Jane" (Take 4)         14 August 1968 & 26 November 1969 EMI Studios    6:12
23.    "Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias" (jam),John LennonMcCartney / LennonMcCartneyHarrisonStarkey,16 September 1968 EMI Studios    2:31
24.    "I'm So Tired" (Takes 3, 6 & 9)         8 October 1968 EMI Studios    2:14
25.    "I Will" (Take 1)         16 September 1968 EMI Studios    1:55
26.    "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?" (Take 4; mono)         9 October 1968 EMI Studios    2:15
27.    "Julia" (Take 2)         13 October 1968 EMI Studios    1:58
Total length:    74:05

Disc Two
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Recording date and location    Length

1.    "I've Got a Feeling" (Savile Row sessions)         23 January 1969 Apple Studio, Savile Row, London    2:49
2.    "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window" (Savile Row sessions)         22 January 1969 Apple Studio    3:37
3.    "Dig a Pony" (Savile Row sessions)         22 January 1969 Apple Studio    4:18
4.    "Two of Us" (Savile Row sessions)         24 January 1969 Apple Studio    3:27
5.    "For You Blue" (Take 1)    Harrison    25 January 1969 Apple Studio    2:23
6.    "Teddy Boy" (Savile Row sessions)    McCartney    24 & 28 January 1969 Apple Studio    3:18
7.    "Medley: Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle and Roll/Blue Suede Shoes" (Savile Row sessions), Robert Blackwell John Marascalco/Charles Calhoun/Carl Perkins,26 January 1969 Apple Studio 3:11
8.    "The Long and Winding Road" (Savile Row sessions; master track with Phil Spector alterations removed),26 January 1969 Apple Studio    3:42
9.    "Oh! Darling" (Savile Row sessions)         27 January 1969 Apple Studio    4:07
10.    "All Things Must Pass" (demo)    Harrison    25 February 1969 EMI Studios    3:05
11.    "Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues" (Savile Row sessions),Ruth RobertsBill KatzStanley Clayton,29 January 1969 Apple Studio    1:56
12.    "Get Back" (Live at the Beatles' rooftop concert)         30 January 1969 Apple Building rooftop, Savile Row    3:09
13.    "Old Brown Shoe" (demo)    Harrison    25 February 1969 EMI Studios    3:03
14.    "Octopus's Garden" (Takes 2 & 8)    Starkey    26 April 1969 EMI Studios    2:49
15.    "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" (Take 5)         9 July 1969 EMI Studios    3:50
16.    "Something" (demo; mono)    Harrison    25 February 1969 EMI Studios    3:19
17.    "Come Together" (Take 1)         21 July 1969 EMI Studios    3:40
18.    "Come and Get It" (demo by McCartney)    McCartney    24 July 1969 EMI Studios    2:30
19.    "Ain't She Sweet" (jam),Milton AgerJack Yellen,    24 July 1969 EMI Studios    2:08
20.    "Because" (a cappella)         4 August 1969 EMI Studios    2:24
21.    "Let It Be" (Savile Row sessions)         25 January 1969 Apple Studio    4:05
22.    "I Me Mine" (Take 16)    Harrison    3 January 1970 EMI Studios    1:48
23.    "The End" (remix featuring final chord of "A Day in the Life")         22 February 1967; 23 July; 5, 7–8, 15 & 18 August 1969 EMI Studios    2:53
Total length:    71:31

Anthology Volume 4 - Disk One
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Original release    Length

1.    "I Saw Her Standing There" (Take 2),The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963    3:06
2.    "Money (That's What I Want)" (RM7 undubbed), Berry GordyJanie Bradford,The Beatles Bootleg Recordings 1963    2:48
3.    "This Boy" (Takes 12 & 13),    Free as a Bird EP    3:18
4.    "Tell Me Why" (Takes 4 & 5),3:07
5.    "If I Fell" (Take 11),    2:38
6.    "Matchbox" (Take 1)    Carl Perkins,2:09
7.    "Every Little Thing" (Takes 6 & 7),3:28
8.    "I Need You" (Take 1)    George Harrison,2:36
9.    "I've Just Seen a Face" (Take 3),2:26
10.    "In My Life" (Take 1),    2:40
11.    "Nowhere Man" (First version – Take 2),2:24
12.    "Got to Get You into My Life" (Second version – Unnumbered mono mix),Revolver: Special Edition    2:35
13.    "Love You To" (Take 7)    Harrison    Revolver: Special Edition    2:56
14.    "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Take 26),Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary Edition    3:20
15.    "She's Leaving Home" (Take 1 – Instrumental),Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: 50th Anniversary Edition    3:50
16.    "Baby, You're a Rich Man" (Takes 11 & 12),     6:06
17.    "All You Need Is Love" (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast),6:11
18.    "The Fool on the Hill" (Take 5 – Instrumental),4:42
19.    "I Am the Walrus" (Take 19 – Strings, brass, clarinet overdub),    4:56

Anthology Volume 4 - Disk Two
No.    Title    Writer(s)    Original release    Length

20.    "Hey Bulldog" (Take 4 – Instrumental)3:14
21.    "Good Night" (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 5),The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    2:31
22.    "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Third version – Take 27), Harrison    The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    3:18
23.    "(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care" (Studio jam),Jerry LeiberMike Stoller,The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    0:43
24.    "Helter Skelter" (Second version – Take 17)         The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    3:38
25.    "I Will" (Take 29)         The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    0:26
26.    "Can You Take Me Back?" (Take 1)         The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    2:22
27.    "Julia" (Two rehearsals)         The Beatles: 50th Anniversary Edition    4:26
28.    "Get Back" (Take 8)         Let It Be: Special Edition    3:51
29.    "Octopus's Garden" (Rehearsal)    Richard Starkey    Let It Be: Special Edition    1:49
30.    "Don't Let Me Down" (First rooftop performance)         Let It Be: Special Edition    3:27
31.    "You Never Give Me Your Money" (Take 36)         Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Edition    5:17
32.    "Here Comes the Sun" (Take 9)    Harrison    Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Edition    3:41
33.    "Something" (Take 39 – instrumental – strings only)    Harrison    Abbey Road: 50th Anniversary Edition    2:35
34.    "Free as a Bird" (2025 Mix),LennonMcCartneyHarrisonStarkey,    4:27
35.    "Real Love" (2025 Mix)    Lennon,    3:34
36.    "Now and Then",  LennonMcCartneyHarrisonStarkey,Single and 2023 reissue of 1967–1970    4:09
Total length:    118:44