Anthology 2

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Anthology 2
Anthology 2 cover
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released March 18, 1996 (UK)
March 19, 1996 (US)
Recorded June 15, 1965 - February 1995
Genre Rock
Length 127:54
Label Apple 34448
Producer(s) George Martin, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Richard Starkey, Jeff Lynne
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The Beatles chronology
Anthology 1
(1995)
Anthology 2
(1996)
Anthology 3
(1996)


The Beatles' Anthology 2 is an album released in March 1996, and includes rarites and alternatives tracks from the sessions for Help! through the sessions for Magical Mystery Tour and singles they were planning to release before their trip to India in 1968. Also included in this album, was a reworking of a John Lennon song, "Real Love" by the three remaining Beatles, much in the same manner that was undertaken for "Free as a Bird".

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one (CD 1)

  1. "Real Love" (Lennon) SAMPLE (950k)
  2. "Yes It Is" (Takes 2 & 14)
  3. "I'm Down" (Take 1)
  4. "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (Takes 1, 2 & 5) [Mono]
  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 2 & 3) [Mono]
  9. "I Feel Fine" (Live At Blackpool Night Out)
  10. "Ticket to Ride" (Live At Blackpool Night Out)
  11. "Yesterday" (Live At Blackpool Night Out)
  12. "Help!" (Live At Blackpool Night Out)
  13. "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby" (Live At Shea Stadium) (Perkins)
  14. "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" (Take 1)
  15. "I'm Looking Through You" (Take 1)
  16. "12-Bar Original" (Edited Take 2) (Lennon-McCartney-Harrison-Starr)
  17. "Tomorrow Never Knows" (Take 1)
  18. "Got to Get You Into My Life" (Take 5) [Mono]
  19. "And Your Bird Can Sing" (Take 2)
  20. "Taxman (Take 11)" (Harrison)
  21. "Eleanor Rigby" (Strings Only)
  22. "I'm Only Sleeping" (Rehearsal) [Mono]
  23. "I'm Only Sleeping" (Take 1) [Mono]
  24. "Rock and Roll Music" (Live At Nippon Budokan Hall) (Berry)
  25. "She's A Woman" (Live At Nippon Budokan Hall)

[edit] Disc two (CD 2)

  1. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Home Demo)
  2. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Take 1)
  3. "Strawberry Fields Forever" (Take 7 & Edit Piece)
  4. "Penny Lane" (Remix)
  5. "A Day in the Life" (Takes 1, 2, 6 & Orchestra)
  6. "Good Morning Good Morning" (Take 8)
  7. "Only a Northern Song" (Takes 3 & 12) (Harrison)
  8. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (Takes 1 and 2)
  9. "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" (Take 7 & Effects Tape)
  10. "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" (Takes 6, 7 & 8)
  11. "Within You Without You" (Instrumental) (Harrison)
  12. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" (Take 5) [Mono]
  13. "You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)"
  14. "I Am the Walrus" (Take 16)
  15. "The Fool On the Hill" (Demo) [Mono]
  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 & 4)
  20. "Across the Universe" (Take 2)
The Beatles
John Lennon | Paul McCartney | George Harrison | Ringo Starr
Pete Best | Stuart Sutcliffe
Management
Brian Epstein | Allen Klein | Neil Aspinall | Apple Records
Production
George Martin | Geoff Emerick | Norman Smith | Phil Spector | Abbey Road Studios | Jeff Lynne
Official studio albums
Please Please Me (1963) | With the Beatles (1963) | A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Beatles for Sale (1964) | Help! (1965) | Rubber Soul (1965) | Revolver (1966)  | Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | The Beatles (The White Album) (1968) | Yellow Submarine (1969) | Abbey Road (1969) | Let It Be (1970)
Filmography
A Hard Day's Night (1964) | Help! (1965) | Magical Mystery Tour (1967) | Yellow Submarine (1968) | Let It Be (1970)
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