Anthology 2

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Anthology 2
Compilation album by The Beatles
Released	March 18, 1996
Recorded	June 15, 1965 - February 1995
Genre	Rock
Length	127:54
Label	EMI Apple, Capitol
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 a compilation album released in March 1996 by Apple Records as part of The Beatles Anthology series. The album includes rarities, live, and alternative tracks from the sessions for Help! through the sessions for Magical Mystery Tour and early 1968 sessions before the band traveled to India.

The album featured the second "new" Beatle-track, "Real Love", a re-worked song originally by John Lennon.

Contents 1 Track listing 1.1 Disc one (CD 1) 1.2 Disc two (CD 2) 2 Release dates and details 3 External link

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, except where noted (see Lennon/McCartney).

[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) (Carl 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, George Harrison, Richard Starkey)
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) (Chuck 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" (Take 9 Horn Overdub)
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)

[edit] Release dates and details

Country	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
United Kingdom	1996-03-18	Apple Records, EMI	Triple vinyl LP	PCSP728 / 72438 34448 1 6
			Double CD	CDPCSP728 / 7243 8 34448 2 3
			Cassette	TCPCSP728
United States	1996-03-19	Apple, Capitol Records, EMI	Triple Vinyl LP	CDP 7243 8 34448 1 6
			Double CD	CDP 7243 8 34448 2 3

[edit] External link

• Anthology 2 at Graham Calkin's Beatles Pages.

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My Bonnie (Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers, Germany 1962) • The Beatles' First (Germany 1964 / UK, 1967) • In The Beginning (Circa 1960) (1970) • The Early Tapes of The Beatles (1984) • Beatles Bop - Hamburg Days (2001)
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