A little background:


A new edition of the Anthology companion book had already been announced, here.

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CD 7 or 8 may even contain the infamous Carnival Of Light ?

so, by looking at what little info we have right now, am i to assume that IF i want 'anthology 4".......i MUST re-buy "anthologies 1, 2 & 3" again.

please please please tell me that they are going to sell all 4 separately as well as in a package deal.....please.

we all know that every beatles fan IN THE ENTIRE WORLD has 1, 2 & 3 already in their collection.

and no one in that world would actually be a big enough prick to make you buy them all over again.......would they?

a caveat: material is added to 1, 2 & 3 that would make it worth doing so.................

Apparently, many of the tracks have been remixed so it might be better than you think.

This could be bad news. Did someone say "I Am The Walrus remix from The Blue Album"?

I can't recall re the remixes, as to the process. There is talk - again talk and speculation - that a process similar to what P Jackson did for Get Back may be deployed here as well. At least for the documentary proper that would be great news. Not sure how that would translate to the audio.

I am torn re individual releases vs box. I agree individual should be an option, as initially I am not sure I want to rebuy the first three - unless it is steller upgrades, but since many of the tracks are outtakes, alternate takes, 'elements', and Live I wonder how much of an improvement there can be (particularly Vol 1). However, IMO, depending on what Vol 4 consists of, I'd almost like to see that all the Vols to be rearranged to fit the eras...versus a jarring odds and sods on 4. Obviously if done that way it would necessitate everything.

I'd actually prefer box sets for the remaining albums. Oh yeah. It's Crapple handling this. Maybe there'll be 80th or 90th anniversary editions of these.

The Anthology albums were nice but they were ultimately superseded by the concept and the actual box set releases of Sgt. Pepper, The White Album, Abbey Road and Let It Be. They became little more than samplers. While underwhelming, I found the individual album box sets to be preferable. Crapple has chosen to go back to another sampler.

I agree, trying to make Lemonade out of ...err...apples (crapples?) .

Re album-centric box sets...other than Rubber Soul...maybe Help (not familiar with how much outtakes, etc. there are), do they combine a few albums together - particularly the early albums (and MMT-YellowSub and sweep up any singles around the time. I know a lot of interesting items re the MMT and YS songs, just not a lot of songs)? Just wondering...

Most speculation suggests that Volume 4 will include various things from the Revolver, Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road, and Let It Be Super Deluxe Editions.

I really hope that this speculation is wrong if it includes a sort of "best of" of these previously released sets. What a waste that would be. It would be so Apple of Crapple to do something as stupid as this.

It's going to come in a nice box, with an inch thick book inside and everything will be remastered by Giles Martin using Peter Jackson's audio refinements as necessary. And we will all buy it. Just sayin'.

i'll absolutely buy "4:, and if 1,2, & 3 are just repeats, i will not buy them new. maybe a year or 2 down the road i'd get it used, but it would have to be cheap.

and i simply cannot imagine them selling '4' separately, i doubt many would buy 1.2. or 3 if they did that....plus there are multiple copies of 1, 2, & 3 in every used bin.

TRACKLIST

ANTHOLOGY 1

CD Disc One:

1: Free As A Bird (1995 mix)

2: John Lennon Speech 1

3: That’ll Be The Day

4: In Spite Of All The Danger

5: Paul McCartney Speech 1

6: Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Home demo)

7: You’ll Be Mine (Home demo)

8: Cayenne (Home demo)

9: Paul McCartney Speech 2

10: My Bonnie

11: Ain’t She Sweet

12: Cry For A Shadow

13: John Lennon Speech 2

14: Brian Epstein Speech 1

15: Searchin’ (Decca audition)

16: Three Cool Cats (Decca audition)

17: The Sheik Of Araby (Decca audition)

18: Like Dreamers Do (Decca audition)

19: Hello Little Girl (Decca audition)

20: Brian Epstein Speech 2

21: Besame Mucho (June 1962 version)

22: Love Me Do (First version)

23: How Do You Do It

24: Please Please Me (First version)

25: One After 909 (Takes 3, 4 and 5) 26: One After 909 (Edit of Takes 4 and 5) 27: Lend Me Your Comb (BBC recording) 28: I’ll Get You (Sunday Night at the London Palladium) 29: John Lennon Speech 3 30: I Saw Her Standing There (Live in Stockholm) 31: From Me To You (Live in Stockholm) 32: Money (That’s What I Want) (Live in Stockholm) 33: You Really Got A Hold On Me (Live in Stockholm) 34: Roll Over Beethoven (Live in Stockholm)

CD Disc Two:

1: She Loves You (Royal Variety Performance) 2: Till There Was You (Royal Variety Performance) 3: Twist And Shout (Royal Variety Performance) 4: This Boy (The Morecambe And Wise Show) 5: I Want To Hold Your Hand (The Morecambe And Wise Show) 6: Speech From The Morecambe And Wise Show 7: Moonlight Bay (The Morecambe And Wise Show) 8: Can’t Buy Me Love (Take 2 with solo from Take 1) 9: All My Loving (The Ed Sullivan Show) 10: You Can’t Do That (Take 6) 11: And I Love Her (Take 2) 12: A Hard Day’s Night (Take 1) 13: I Wanna Be Your Man (Around The Beatles) 14: Long Tall Sally (Around The Beatles) 15: Boys (Around The Beatles session) 16: Shout (Around The Beatles) 17: I’ll Be Back (Take 2) 18: I’ll Be Back (Take 3) 19: You Know What To Do (Demo) 20: No Reply (Demo) 21: Mr Moonlight (Takes 1 and 4) 22: Leave My Kitten Alone (Take 5) 23: No Reply (Take 2) 24: Eight Days A Week (Takes 1, 2 and 4) 25: Eight Days A Week (Take 5) 26: Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey! (Take 2)

ANTHOLOGY 2

CD Disc One:

1: Real Love (1996 mix)

2: Yes It Is (Takes 2 and 14)

3: I’m Down (Take 1)

4: You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (Take 5)

5: If You’ve Got Trouble (Take 1)

6: That Means A Lot (Take 1)

7: Yesterday (Take 1)

8: It’s Only Love (Takes 3 and 2)

9: I Feel Fine (Blackpool Night Out)

10: Ticket To Ride (Blackpool Night Out)

11: Yesterday (Blackpool Night Out)

12: Help! (Blackpool Night Out)

13: Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby (Live at Shea Stadium, New York)

14: Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) (Take 1)

15: I’m Looking Through You (Take 1)

16: 12-Bar Original (Take 2 edited)

17: Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1)

18: Got To Get You Into My Life (Take 5)

19: And Your Bird Can Sing (Take 2)

20: Taxman (Take 11)

21: Eleanor Rigby (Take 14 – Strings only)

22: I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal)

23: I’m Only Sleeping (Take 1)

24: Rock And Roll Music (Live in Tokyo)

25: She’s A Woman (Live in Tokyo)

CD Disc Two:

1: Strawberry Fields Forever (Home demo sequence)

2: Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 1) 3: Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 7 and edit piece) 4: Penny Lane (Remix) 5: A Day In The Life (Takes 1, 2, 6 and orchestra) 6: Good Morning Good Morning (Take 8) 7: Only A Northern Song (Takes 3 and 12) 8: Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! (Takes 1 and 2) 9: Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! (Take 7) 10: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Takes 6, 7 and 8) 11: Within You Without You (Instrumental) 12: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (Take 5) 13: You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (Stereo remix) 14: I Am The Walrus (Take 16) 15: The Fool On The Hill (Demo) 16: Your Mother Should Know (Take 27) 17: The Fool On The Hill (Take 4) 18: Hello, Goodbye (Take 16) 19: Lady Madonna (Takes 3 and 4) 20: Across The Universe (Take 2)

Anthology 3

CD Disc One:

1: A Beginning

2: Happiness Is A Warm Gun (Esher demo with false start)

3: Helter Skelter (Take 2 edited)

4: Mean Mr Mustard (Esher demo)

5: Polythene Pam (Esher demo)

6: Glass Onion (Esher demo)

7: Junk (Esher demo)

8: Piggies (Esher demo)

9: Honey Pie (Esher demo edited)

10: Don’t Pass Me By (Take 3 with Take 5 vocal)

11: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (First version - Take 5)

12: Good Night (Rehearsal and Take 34)

13: Cry Baby Cry (Take 1)

14: Blackbird (Take 4)

15: Sexy Sadie (Take 6)

16: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Acoustic version - Take 1)

17: Hey Jude (Take 2)

18: Not Guilty (Take 102 edited)

19: Mother Nature’s Son (Take 2)

20: Glass Onion (Original mono mix)

21: Rocky Raccoon (Take 8)

22: What’s The New Mary Jane (Take 4)

23: Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias (Studio jam)

24: I’m So Tired (Edit of Takes 3, 6 and 9)

25: I Will (Take 1)

26: Why Don’t We Do It In The Road (Take 4) 27: Julia (Take 2)

CD Disc Two:

1: I’ve Got A Feeling (Apple Studio) 2: She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (Apple Studio) 3: Dig A Pony (Apple Studio) 4: Two Of Us (Apple Studio) 5: For You Blue (Apple Studio) 6: Teddy Boy (Apple Studio) 7: Medley: Rip It Up / Shake, Rattle And Roll / Blue Suede Shoes (Apple Studio jam) 8: The Long And Winding Road (Apple Studio) 9: Oh! Darling (Apple Studio) 10: All Things Must Pass (Demo) 11: Mailman, Bring Me No More Blues (Apple Studio jam) 12: Get Back (Third rooftop performance) 13: Old Brown Shoe (Demo) 14: Octopus’s Garden (Take 2) 15: Maxwell’s Silver Hammer (Take 5) 16: Something (Demo) 17: Come Together (Take 1) 18: Come and Get It (Demo – 1996 remix) 19: Ain’t She Sweet (Studio jam) 20: Because (Vocals only) 21: Let It Be (Apple Studio) 22: I Me Mine (Take 16) 23: The End (Remix with the final chord of A Day In The Life)

ANTHOLOGY 4

CD Disc One:

1: I Saw Her Standing There (Take 2)

2: Money (That’s What I Want) (RM7 undubbed)

3: This Boy (Takes 12 and 13)

4: Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5)

5: If I Fell (Take 11)

6: Matchbox (Take 1)

7: Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7)

8: I Need You (Take 1)

9: I’ve Just Seen A Face (Take 3)

10: In My Life (Take 1)

11: Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2)

12: Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version – unnumbered mix)

13: Love You To (Take 7)

14: Strawberry Fields Forever (Take 26)

15: She’s Leaving Home (Take 1 – instrumental)

16: Baby, You’re A Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12)

17: All You Need Is Love (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast)

18: The Fool On The Hill (Take 5 – Instrumental)

19: I Am The Walrus (Take 19 – strings, brass, clarinet overdub)

CD Disc Two:

1: Hey Bulldog (Take 4 – instrumental)

2: Good Night (Take 10 with a guitar part from Take 5)

3: While My Guitar Gently Weeps (Third Version – Take 27)

4: (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care (Studio jam)

5: Helter Skelter (Second version – Take 17)

6: I Will (Take 29)

7: Can You Take Me Back? (Take 1)

8: Julia (Two rehearsals)

9: Get Back (Take 8)

10: Octopus's Garden (Rehearsal)

11: Don't Let Me Down (First rooftop performance)

12: You Never Give Me Your Money (Take 36)

13: Here Comes The Sun (Take 9)

14: Something (Take 39 – instrumental – strings only)

15: Free As A Bird (2025 mix)

16: Real Love (2025 mix)

17: Now And Then

looks like discs 1, 2 & 3 are the same discs as the original releases (as far as i can tell)

and it also looks like "4" will NOT be sold separately.

Anthology 4 new tracks.

CD Disc One:

4: Tell Me Why (Takes 4 and 5)
5: If I Fell (Take 11)
6: Matchbox (Take 1)
7: Every Little Thing (Takes 6 and 7)
8: I Need You (Take 1)
9: I’ve Just Seen A Face (Take 3)
10: In My Life (Take 1)
11: Nowhere Man (First version – Take 2)

16: Baby, You’re A Rich Man (Takes 11 and 12)
17: All You Need Is Love (Rehearsal for BBC broadcast)
18: The Fool On The Hill (Take 5 – Instrumental)
19: I Am The Walrus (Take 19 – strings, brass, clarinet overdub)

CD Disc Two:

1: Hey Bulldog (Take 4 – instrumental)
15: Free As A Bird (2025 mix)
16: Real Love (2025 mix)

Are the rest of Anthology 4's tracks from the recent deluxe box set editions of the individual albums?

i haven't a clue, sorry.

According to the write-up at The Beatles official store, first three volumes are remastered. No mention of any remixes. Volume 4 is 13 previously unreleased tracks and the other 17 tracks are from the previously released super deluxe editions.

Worth noting is that, in the box, all individual anthology's come in individual gatefold digi-sleeves with booklets, packed with four art-cards in an envelope. Considering each anthology will be in a separate digi-sleeve with booklet, it does give the impression that each anthology will be available individually at a later date. I guess we will have to wait and see on that.

8 CD set = $120 version with no art-cards, $130 version with art cards

12 vinyl set = $375 version with no art-cards, $400 version with art cards